Courttia Newland: West Side Stories

Thank God for Channel 4OnDemand! Don't know how I missed this programme first time around.

In Nov 2002 a Channel 4 documentary ‘West Side Stories’ featured the life and work of Newland.

Worth watching!

Steve McQueen: The Art of War

In episode 6 (The Art of War) of the 2011 Channel 4 documentary series, ‘The Genius of Art’, black artist Steve McQueen's postage stamps work was shown & discussed.

Bernard Westcarr: A hundred years of us: Episode 3 BBC2

Bernard Westcarr of Jamaica, was featured in a 10 min clip on the BBC documentary programme, "A hundred years of us: Episode 3". He married fellow Jamaican, Millicent, and later became Gloucester’s first black magistrate.

See more about Westcarr at www.gloucesterfm.com/black-history/black-history-interviews-Bernard-Westcarr.html

Dr Gus Casely-Hayford & William Ansah

In episode 2 (Art for the People) of the 2011 Channel 4 documentary series, ‘The Art of War’, black Ghanian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford revealed that William Ansah was a blood relation. Other key family names included Bannerman.

Brixton 1981 uprising, 30th Anniversary Retrospective

Brixton 1981 uprising, 30th  Anniversary Retrospective,
The Renunion. BBC Radio 4. Sunday 20th March 11.15-12noon
featuring Darcus Howe, Alex Wheatle and policemen who had served in the area during 1981.

listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zl4dq/The_Reunion_Brixton_Riots/

Lance Dunkley, The British at Work: Prog 1

Lance Dunkley, a black immigrant who settled in Wolverhampton – featured in the BBC documentary presented by Kirsty Young, 

The British at Work: Prog 1 – We Can Make it 1954-1964, 

aired March 2011 at 40 mins. 

He talks of the class-hierarchy in the work place.

In Jan 2018, PERMIJIT DUNKLEY, replied to my 2011 blog, at https://anjijoy.blogspot.com/2011/03/lance-dunkley-british-at-work-prog-1.html claiming that Lance Dunkley was not just black, but also Asian. As far as I’m concerned, unless I see categorical proof that Lance Dunkley himself, referred to himself as anything other than black, that is the way I shall always refer to him.

         I know of too many examples, past and present, in which the black children from black-asian relationships, have been racially terrorised and or rejected by their Asian relations. In such cases, it is no wonder that many reject their Asian heritage, and only identify as black.

Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah BBC R4 Book Club

Good to hear Zephaniah interviewed on BBC R4 Book Club re. his novel Refugee Boy.
I loved 'Listen to Your Parents' which I heard as a play on R4. One of the most powerful things I've ever heard.

Glad to hear that Sissay and Zephaniah are such friends.
Would like to see Sissay's stage version of 'Refugee Boy'.