Tag: BBC

  • Terry and Judy – A Mixed Race Journey The listening project: It’s surprising what you hear when you listen BBC Radio 4 2016-11-23, 10:55Z Fi Glover, Presenter Marya Burgess, Producer Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mixed race couple who met at a time when their relationship was a lot more unusual than it…

  • Black and British: A Forgotten History Pan Macmillan 2016-11-03 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1447299738 Ebook ISBN: 978-1447299745 Digital Audio ISBN: 978-1509837113 David Olusoga A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of…

  • She’s a SOAS fellow and former model, and now Emma Dabiri is fronting a new BBC show as part of the broadcaster’s “Black and British” season. She talks race, immigration and the politics of hair

  • New Generation Thinkers: The Moor of Florence – A Medici Mystery Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 2015-11-09 2015 Festival, The Free Thinking Essay For over 400 years it’s been claimed that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race, his mother a slave of African descent. Catherine Fletcher of Swansea University asks if this…

  • Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-03-25 The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay has just been announced as the next Scots Makar – Scotland’s national poet. She tells Jenni about the plans she has for her new role. Today a new exhibition examining how food, fashion and lifestyle…

  • Tiger Woods at 40: The 14-time major champion’s legacy BBC Sport 2015-12-30 Iain Carter, Golf Correspondent Masters 2001: Woods seals ‘Tiger’ slam Imagine Earl Woods choosing to put a baseball bat rather than a golf club into the hands of young Eldrick, his toddler son. How different would golf be if Tiger Woods, who turns…

  • Divided Loyalties BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Stories BBC 2014-05-04 (Available until 2014-05-09) Duration: 1 hour DJ Semtex, Host DJ Semtex has a black mother and a white father and, as a mixed race kid, had both negative and positive experiences. The latest national census showed that the mixed race population is the fastest growing in Britain,…

  • Upfront (With Guests Mark Christian and Anna Rothery) Upfront BBC Radio: Merseyside 2012-06-02 Phina Oruche, Host Guests Mark Christian, Professor & Chair of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Anna Rothery, Councillor Liverpool City Council, Princes Park Ward Host Phina Oruche discusses the current state of the African diaspora…

  • Mixed Britannia: Part 3 of 3 (1965-2011) BBC Two 2011-10-20 George Alagiah, Host Below is the last episode as four 15-minute videos.

  • Britain: More mixed than we thought British Broadcasting Corporation 2011-10-07 Mark Easton, Home editor New figures seen by the BBC suggest our mixed race population may be twice the size of official figures—numbering up to two million people Looking at some new figures on ethnic minorities in Britain the other day, I glanced at a…