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Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen

Raising the Bar: 100 Years of Black British Theatre and Screen: Last Taboos

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Lenny Henry focuses on attitudes towards homosexuality, with film-maker Isaac Julien.

Lenny Henry talks to Isaac Julien about his work as an out gay film-maker, who confronted issues of discrimination within the African Caribbean community. From November 2015.

Lenny Henry talks to black British film director Isaac Julien about his work as an out-gay film-maker who has from the beginning of his career confronted issues of discrimination, police brutality, and homophobia within the African Caribbean community. With his film Young Soul Rebels, which he made in 1991, but which was set in 1977 against the backdrop of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Julien depicted head-on the violence and hatred of homosexuals within British black society. How, today, have attitudes changed?

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Producer Simon Elmes.

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Lenny Henry presents a series tracing a century of black British theatre and screen

Lenny Henry presents a series of programmes tracing a century of black British theatre and screen

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