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The extraordinary story of Una Marson, a trailblazing poet, playwright and campaigner, and the first black producer and broadcaster at the BBC. The extraordinary story of Una Marson, a ...
Una Marson was the first Black radio producer to present on the BBC during world war two, giving West Indians who lived in Britain a platform to share their stories on a global radio station which ...
When Una Marson became the BBC's first black radio producer and presenter in the 1940s, she brought Caribbean voices and culture to a global audience, but her name is now little known. Sir Lenny ...
You might not have heard of Una Marson, but that’s about to change thanks to a new documentary shining a light on the extraordinary life and work of the BBC’s first Black producer and ...
June Sarpong’s laugh is one of the greatest sounds in the world – one lots of us grew up with as the soundtrack to Channel 4 teen show, T4. Powerful, edgy, irreverent telly, watched by an ...
Plaques will also honour novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson. The blue plaque scheme has been running since 1866.