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Front Row: Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga

27/07/2022

Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga

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Beverley Knight and Jennifer Saunders on Sister Act, Ugandan Asian stories, David Olusoga

Beverley Knight and Jennifer Saunders on Sister Act, the Ugandan Asian exodus dramatised in Leicester, David Olusoga on Story Trails - a new immersive history project across the UK

Sister Act the Musical is returning to the London stage, after two years of Covid delays and thirty years after the much loved Whoopi Goldberg film. Tom Sutcliffe met the stars of the new Hammersmith Apollo production, Beverley Knight who plays singer on the run Deloris and Jennifer Saunders who takes on the role of Mother Superior, to discuss mixing secular and sacred musical traditions with comedy and choreography. 

Curve Theatre, Leicester, has commissioned a series of plays called Finding Home to mark 50 years since the Ugandan Asian exodus initiated by the then President Idi Amin.  Many of those who fled came to family and contacts in Leicester.  Reporter Geeta Pendse talks to some of the writers and performers and visits Leicester Museum to hear the stories of what happened in August 1972.  

Story Trails is a new project that uses virtual reality to reveal hidden local histories in fifteen places across the UK.  Film maker David Olusoga, who is the project’s creative director, explains how the UK’s largest immersive storytelling project will work.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Emma Wallace

Picture: Sister Act - Beverley Knight as Deloris van Cartier and Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior. Photographer Criedit: Manuel Harlan

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