Calling all Garveyites, Great Lives - Marcus Garvey
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:37 pm
On 1st February, the BBC Radio 4 series "Great Lives" featured a 30 minute programme about Marcus Garvey. Here's the weblink if you want to hear it online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y2d8c
And here's a description of the programme:- "Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and Africa."
Regards
Rob
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y2d8c
And here's a description of the programme:- "Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and Africa."
Regards
Rob