A series that recognises and celebrates Black pioneers across the British creative industries.
Series 1 - Black pioneers in British radio broadcasting from the 1920s-1990s.
It tells the story of the often neglected voices of Black Britain who served their communities whose culture, tastes and interests were not being catered for by the mainstream such as pirate radio stations like DBC and LWR, which inspired the creation of Black-owned licensed radio stations like WNK and Choice FM. It also looks at the pioneering Black voices on the radio from the 1920s and throughout the Second World War.
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A series that recognises and celebrates Black pioneers across the British creative industries.
Series 1 - Black pioneers in British radio broadcasting from the 1920s-1990s.
It tells the story of the often neglected voices of Black Britain who served their communities whose culture, tastes and interests were not being catered for by the mainstream such as pirate radio stations like DBC and LWR, which inspired the creation of Black-owned licensed radio stations like WNK and Choice FM. It also looks at the pioneering Black voices on the radio from the 1920s and throughout the Second World War.
In this episode, Ayesha speaks to Professor Glyne Griffith whose research examines Anglophone Caribbean literature in the context of postcolonial theory and criticism, about Caribbean Voices and the BBC colonial radio service, Zakiya McKenzie a writer and PhD researcher exploring Black British journalism in the post-second world war period, about Caribbean Voices and Caribbean Writers and Stephen Bourne a cultural historian specialising in the Black presence in Britain, about Dr Harold Moody and The Colour Bar.
You can view the online exhibition for this series at www.thevoicesofblackbritain.weebly.com
The Voices of Black Britain
A series that recognises and celebrates Black pioneers across the British creative industries.
Series 1 - Black pioneers in British radio broadcasting from the 1920s-1990s.
It tells the story of the often neglected voices of Black Britain who served their communities whose culture, tastes and interests were not being catered for by the mainstream such as pirate radio stations like DBC and LWR, which inspired the creation of Black-owned licensed radio stations like WNK and Choice FM. It also looks at the pioneering Black voices on the radio from the 1920s and throughout the Second World War.
