{"id":61988,"date":"2021-10-29T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61988"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:10:00","slug":"bbc-releases-first-look-images-of-my-name-is-leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61988","title":{"rendered":"BBC releases first-look images of My Name Is Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC releases first-look images of <\/strong><\/em>My Name Is Leon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Royal Television Society<\/a>
\n2021-10-28<\/p>\n

Caitlin Danaher<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Cole Martin<\/a> as Leon (credit: BBC)<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The BBC<\/a> has released images for the upcoming adaptation<\/a> of Kit de Waal\u2019s<\/a> award-winning novel, <\/em>My Name Is Leon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Adapted into a screenplay by Shola Amoo<\/a> (The Last Tree<\/em><\/a>) and directed by Lynette Linton<\/a>, the series will star Sir Lenny Henry CBE<\/a>, Malachi Kirby<\/a> (Small Axe<\/em><\/a>), Monica Dolan<\/a> (A Very English Scandal<\/em><\/a>), Olivia Williams<\/a> (Counterpart<\/em><\/a>), Christopher Eccleston<\/a> (The A Word<\/em><\/a>), Poppy Lee Friar<\/a> (In My Skin<\/em><\/a>), Shobna Gulati<\/a> (Everybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie<\/em><\/a>) and Cole Martin<\/a>, who will play the lead, Leon, in his first TV role.<\/p>\n

Set in 1980s Birmingham<\/a>, the feature film tells the uplifting and poignant tale of nine-year-old Leon, a mixed-race boy separated from his blue-eyed baby brother as he was taken into care, who is on a quest to reunite his family…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The BBC has released images for the upcoming adaptation of Kit de Waal\u2019s award-winning novel, “My Name Is Leon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,10],"tags":[5697,15923,7151,32221,32225,32228,81,24639,24640,26154,32223,32224,23199,32226,32222,32227,25220],"class_list":["post-61988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-bbc","tag-birmingham","tag-british-broadcasting-corporation","tag-caitlin-danaher","tag-christopher-eccleston","tag-cole-martin","tag-england","tag-kit-de-waal","tag-lenny-henry","tag-lynette-linton","tag-malachi-kirby","tag-monica-dolan","tag-olivia-williams","tag-poppy-lee-friar","tag-royal-television-society","tag-shobna-gulati","tag-shola-amoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61992,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61988\/revisions\/61992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}