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Remembering the amazing life of Olaudah Equiano
A BBC Radio 4 programme will mark the 225 anniversary of the death of the forgotten black British hero. MARC WADSWORTH produced it
Olaudah Equiano and Tayo Aluko who plays him in the BBC Radio 4 production
[Olaudah Equiano: public domain]
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ON TUESDAY afternoon (May 24), a new BBC radio docu-drama, made by myself and fellow producer Deborah Hobson, will chart the life and times of a remarkable but forgotten black British hero, who died 225 years ago. The Amazing Life of Olaudah Equiano is being broadcast at 4pm on BBC Radio 4.
Sadly, programmes like this made by black independent production companies like ours, The-Latest Ltd, are rare. When I asked a Radio 4 executive commissioner if she knew of any others working with her history department she said a forlorn “no.”
It’s as if, in British broadcasting, the game-changing Black Lives Matter movement, spearheaded by radical youth demanding change, had never happened.
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