The track is released to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Una Marson, the Jamaican feminist activist and writer who was the first Black woman to work for the BBC. 'A IS FOR AFRICA' is ...

I can only imagine what would happen if that were today.” Una Marson. Picture credit: Akan Books/PA Sarpong, 47, was a prodigy, starting out on radio at 16 and by 19, she was on TV.

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 ...

Una Marson was the first Black woman to become a programme producer at the BBC and is thought to be the first Black female playwright to be performed on the London stage. She was living at The ...

ENGLISH HERITAGE has today announced a blue plaque celebrating the extraordinary life and achievements of Una Marson, a trailblazing Jamaican poet, playwright, broadcaster, and campaigner for ...

Broadcaster Una Marson also now has a Blue Plaque. Another Blue Plaque has just been unveiled, at The Mansions, Mill Lane in West Hampstead — this one dedicated to Una Marson, the BBC's first ...

Akan Books celebrated the publication of its debut title, Calling Una Marson, with a launch party at the News Building in London Bridge last night (27th February). At the party, Sarpong took to ...

Set against a backdrop of the wild cliffs of the North Yorkshire coast, The Impossible Thing is a thrilling story about greed and obsession – those ugly traits to which humans seem so ...

ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson. Hepburn was born in Belgium and moved to London in 1948 after previously attending a boarding school in Kent between 1936 to ...

Other names that will be celebrated in the London scheme from English Heritage are novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una ...

Also receiving plaques this year are ballerina, choreographer and English National Ballet co-founder Alicia Markova; Jamaican poet, playwright and equal rights campaigner Una Marson; acclaimed ...