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Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) [1] was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes.. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC, during World War II. [2]
At What A Price is a play by Jamaican feminist and writer Una Marson. [1] [2] It was co-written with her friend Horace Vaz in 1931 when Marson was 26 and first performed in Jamaica in 1932, the play was successful enough for Marson to travel to London on the profits where it would be staged at the Scala Theatre on Charlotte Street in January 1934.
Kamau Brathwaite has described Caribbean Voices as "the single most important literary catalyst for Caribbean creative and critical writing in English". [9] A key figure in the BBC's Caribbean Service at the time was Andrew Salkey as presenter; his programmes "became a glittering showcase for a generation of writers, including Sam Selvon and George Lamming, who had made London their second home.
In November 1993, the magazine was replaced with a 100-page colour magazine (up until then, the magazine was printed in two colours except for the front and back covers) and started including more and deeper stories, and renamed BBC Worldwide (from April to November 1995, there was a North American edition, subtitled BBC Worldwide North America, presumably so the magazine could be sent to ...
Una Marson (died 1965), writer, producer of plays and radio programmes. She was the first black female radio producer at the BBC; Clive Myrie (born 1964), journalist, newsreader and TV presenter; Zadie Smith (born 1975), author; Vivian Virtue (died 1998), translator and broadcaster
"London calling" was the call sign of 2LO radio – forerunner of the BBC – inaugurated in May 1922. [11] Charlot was a strong opponent of broadcasting, which he saw as a rival, and The Evening Standard called him "cold and calculating" for giving his new revue its title "so that the wireless people will be compelled to give him a free ...
Watch firsthand, in 360 video, as Susan Sarandon listens and learns about refugees' hopes, dreams and journeys
Delia Jarrett-Macauley was born [6] in Hertfordshire, England, to Sierra Leone Creole parents, their youngest daughter, [1] [7] and she visited Sierra Leone as a child. [8] She studied at York College for Girls and Harrogate Grammar School and earned her first degree in management and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English from London University.