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Book of the Week: Lloyd Bradley - Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital

Ben Onwukwe

Lloyd Bradley

Natalie Steed

Kirsteen Cameron

Book of the Week: Lloyd Bradley - Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital: Episode 1

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Sounds Like London - 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital

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Lloyd Bradley - Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital

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It's 1948 and the Empire Windrush brings an exciting new musical style to London - calypso

It's 1948, and the Empire Windrush brings an exciting new musical style to London - calypso.

The story of a city's transformation through its music, taking in the wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 40s right up to the present day.

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

Read by Ben Onwukwe.
Written by Lloyd Bradley. 
Abridged by Natalie Steed.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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Lloyd Bradley tells the story of black music in the capital

Lloyd Bradley tells the story of black music in the capital, from the wave of Commonwealth immigration in the '40s to the present day

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