When you think about BBC4, what comes to mind?
Everyone still needs a place to think. When you think about BBC4, what comes to mind? Its strapline at launch was a serious-minded “Everybody Needs a Place To Think”. And, God bless the good ship, it...
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The response to the announcement that the Doctor would yet again be played by a straight, white man is just about settling down.It was clear, from the day it was announced, that clearing airtime in...
View ArticleSounds Like London by Lloyd Bradley: An intensive, lovingly written account...
A serious music journalist, Lloyd Bradley's history of black music in the nation's capital is captivating and well crafted, writes Bim Adewunmi.Sounds Like London: 100 Years of BlackMusic in the...
View ArticleOrange Is the New Black gives us a different view of the debate over "privilege"
Netflix's newest production offers nuance and subtle insight into the uses and abuses of power. In episode four of Netflix’s House of Cards, Congressman Francis Underwood (a knowing Kevin Spacey, whose...
View ArticleWhy are there so few penises on television?
There's an insidious double standard in operation on the small screen - naked breasts abound, but we never get to see a man's sexy parts. Let’s look at a couple of moments in recent influential film...
View ArticleI urge everyone moaning about film-to-TV adaptations to remember Buffy the...
There are numerous routes to television - through radio, books and film. Is the upcoming adaptation of the Coen brothers' excellent "Fargo" something we need to be worried about?Radio 4’s tagline is...
View ArticleThe Midwives: reality TV, but painfully real
We watch The Midwives, I think, because it is the story of us.My birth, I gather, was generally delightful: I was on time, more or less, and caused only the normal amount of stress for my mother, who...
View ArticleWhy is it still groundbreaking for a TV show like Scandal to have a black...
Kerry Washington, star of Scandal, is the first black woman to be starring in a US primetime network show since the 1970s. Blanche and Dorothy and Rose and Sophia. Donatello and Leonardo and...
View ArticleHow has it taken Saturday Night Live so long to realise black women can be...
Sasheer Zamata has joined the long-running US comedy show, becoming its first black female cast member since 2007. She's only the fifth black female cast member since 1975. Why?Permit me to engage in a...
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Kimberlé Crenshaw on intersectionality: “I wanted to come up with an everyday...
Intersectionality – the theory of how different types of discrimination interact - has brought law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw global attention. Here, she talks to Bim Adewunmi about how both feminist...
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