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John Akomfrah’s documentary about cultural theorist Stuart Hall combines archive imagery with specially filmed material and a Miles Davis soundtrack to present a sensitive portrait of one of the founders...
Chinua Achebe and R K Narayan talk about their experiences and what it means to be born into one culture and one language and to be writing in the English language. The programme explores the contradicitons...
Poets James Berry, David Dabydeen and Jackie Kay discuss the varied traditions of poetry in the Caribbean. The programme looks at two distinct strands of poetry - the oral and the literary - and discusses...
Janice Shinebourne and Beryl Gilroy are each interviewed separately. Janice Shinebourne discusses her Guyanese background, the influence of the landscape, social conditions, her family on her writing - and...
Toni Morrison inn conversation with AS Byatt at the ICA discusses: the terrain of black women novelists; defining oneself as a writer; black American literature; the visual as starting point of the novel;...
Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...
Collection of features and shorts featuring examples of early African-American film: the so-called ‘race films’ of 1920s, 30s and 40s America which rallied against the prejudiced conventions of the...
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