DVD Reviews – July/August 2010
Catching the festival on film The highlight of the year for many Londoners, Notting Hill Carnival takes place over two days at the end of...
Caryl Phillips: Playing Away
“Yes, there are meant to be two-line breaks between the paragraphs here.” “OK, Ismael, we’ll discuss that next time.” “Well, if...
Caribbean Cleo — the Amazing Cleo Laine
Cleo Laine was 26 when she learnt that she had been born to unmarried parents. She’d never had a passport, suddenly needed one for a...
Letter from London
Visiting London in the first few months of 1998? You’ll find a city warming up to a sparkling spring season of events — from classics...
Notting Hill Carnival: Coming from the Cold
August Bank Holiday, the last Monday in August, marks the end of the summer holiday season, and for most of Britain is the time for the...
Sam Selvon: Words of Welcome
London in the post-war 1940s was a far cry from the “cool Britannia” of half a century later. Rationing was still in force, choking...
The Harder They Dance
We got the flava, we got the style Original Rude Girls, fresh all the while! The rousing rhythms and lyrics of this sizzling new film from...
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Revalueshanary voice
For 30 years Linton Kwesi Johnson has been Britain’s leading dub poet, though he prefers to call his verse “reggae poetry”. James...
