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Sounds like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital (Omnibus)

Lloyd Bradley explores the story of black music in London, from 1940s Commonwealth immigration to the present day. From 2013.

Lloyd Bradley explores the story of London's transformation through its music, taking in the wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 1940s up to the present.

In 1948, the Empire Windrush brings an exciting new style of music to London with the arrival of Caribbean Calypso star Lord Kitchener...

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Natalie Steed.

Read by Ben Onwukwe.

Producer: Kirsteen Cameron

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2013.

18 days left to listen

1 hour, 10 minutes

Last on

Mon 3 Aug 202602:30
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