Sat June 20
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents an edition dedicated to victims of racism and those campaigning for racial equality around the world. He plays a range of musical responses to racism and hears from the musicians who write them, among them drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, trumpeter Byron Wallen and flautist Nicole Mitchell. Harpist Brandee Younger and bassist Dezron Douglas perform a tribute to the victims of police killings, and British saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi shares a collection of tracks to lift the spirits of black communities around the world.
I don't know some of these people, but the more the better. Excellent stuff!
12midnight - Freeness
Kim Macari [who she? check the link provided!] with music including a work by pianist Vijay Iyer's project with the MC/poet Mike Ladd, and improvisations by John Cage and David Tudor.
Sun June 21
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests for recordings by British artists including Roger Beaujolais, Quentin Collins, Lindsay Hannon and Huw Warren.
Excellent promo for British artists. thanks! For those who don't know, Lindsay Hannon is a vocalist from Tyneside.
Tues June 23
11pm - The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum
On Fri June 26, Among those mentioned in Late Junction - 11pm is Anthony Braxton.
Meanwhile, on the small screen (unless you have one of those big ones dominating your living room):
Sat June20 - BBC2
9pm - I Am Not Your Negro
Precision-sacheduled, this bullet-point history of the black experience couldn't be more relevant. Adapted from the unfinished memoir of one of the great men of American letters, James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro is a muscular, no-holds-barred series of bouts, many on late-night US chat shows from a time when smoking was permitted and where Baldwin wielded his mordant wit, with director Raoul Peck working in footage on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers. "The future of the negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country," Baldwin intones to Dick Cavett, adding, "I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive." If this is Baldwin's memorial, his wisdom springs eternal. One wonders what he'd have made of the statues of slave traders being upended in 2020. (Andrew Collins).
Mon June 22 - BBC4
10pm - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
American movie documentary from 2015. Here's what *** rating Radio Times has to say about it:
In a Storeyville that's both educational and entertaining, Stanley Nelson charts the rise and fall of the most alluring and controversial black organisation of late-1960s America. Formed to bring better education and nutrition into the African-American community, the Black Panthers became famous for tackling racial abuse via rallies, protests and even patrolling the police themselves. Nelson brings their story to life with hard facts and vivid images that make for never-more-timely viewing.
Has anyone seen/know anything about/this film?
5pm - J to Z
Julian Joseph presents an edition dedicated to victims of racism and those campaigning for racial equality around the world. He plays a range of musical responses to racism and hears from the musicians who write them, among them drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, trumpeter Byron Wallen and flautist Nicole Mitchell. Harpist Brandee Younger and bassist Dezron Douglas perform a tribute to the victims of police killings, and British saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi shares a collection of tracks to lift the spirits of black communities around the world.
I don't know some of these people, but the more the better. Excellent stuff!
12midnight - Freeness
Kim Macari [who she? check the link provided!] with music including a work by pianist Vijay Iyer's project with the MC/poet Mike Ladd, and improvisations by John Cage and David Tudor.
Sun June 21
4pm - Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton with listeners' requests for recordings by British artists including Roger Beaujolais, Quentin Collins, Lindsay Hannon and Huw Warren.
Excellent promo for British artists. thanks! For those who don't know, Lindsay Hannon is a vocalist from Tyneside.
Tues June 23
11pm - The Jazz Show with Jamie Cullum
On Fri June 26, Among those mentioned in Late Junction - 11pm is Anthony Braxton.
Meanwhile, on the small screen (unless you have one of those big ones dominating your living room):
Sat June20 - BBC2
9pm - I Am Not Your Negro
Precision-sacheduled, this bullet-point history of the black experience couldn't be more relevant. Adapted from the unfinished memoir of one of the great men of American letters, James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro is a muscular, no-holds-barred series of bouts, many on late-night US chat shows from a time when smoking was permitted and where Baldwin wielded his mordant wit, with director Raoul Peck working in footage on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Medgar Evers. "The future of the negro in this country is precisely as bright or as dark as the future of the country," Baldwin intones to Dick Cavett, adding, "I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive." If this is Baldwin's memorial, his wisdom springs eternal. One wonders what he'd have made of the statues of slave traders being upended in 2020. (Andrew Collins).
Mon June 22 - BBC4
10pm - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
American movie documentary from 2015. Here's what *** rating Radio Times has to say about it:
In a Storeyville that's both educational and entertaining, Stanley Nelson charts the rise and fall of the most alluring and controversial black organisation of late-1960s America. Formed to bring better education and nutrition into the African-American community, the Black Panthers became famous for tackling racial abuse via rallies, protests and even patrolling the police themselves. Nelson brings their story to life with hard facts and vivid images that make for never-more-timely viewing.
Has anyone seen/know anything about/this film?
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