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imagine...: 2020: Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

2020

BBC One - imagine..., 2020, Lenny Henry: Young, Gifted and Black

Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry to look back at his early years in show business. 

Alan Yentob meets Lenny Henry as he publishes a first volume of autobiography, charting his early years in show business. 

Alan Yentob follows one of our best loved performers as he releases his first autobiography charting his early years in show business. In this revealing and poignant film Sir Lenny Henry meets up with his closest friends, family and colleagues to remember his sudden rise to fame aged 16 on TV talent show, New Faces, which catapulted him from working-class kid from Dudley to one of Britain’s most celebrated black performers. imagine... also explores Lenny’s other early television breakthrough roles on Tiswas and Three Of A Kind as well as five troubling years as the only black performer in The Black & White Minstrel Show. Alongside his early achievements, Lenny Henry also discusses his recent career reinvention as a serious actor of stage and screen and his work as a political activist campaigning for greater diversity in the entertainment and broadcasting industry

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