Lenny Henry's Caribbean Britain

In part one, Lenny looks at the explosion of culture brought from the Caribbean by the post-war arrivals, from the music of calypso and ska, to theatre and art. He explores the stories of activism, entrepreneurship and resilience behind these artforms and how the early cultural pioneers laid the foundations for the next generation. Lenny also reflects on his own journey of trying to fulfil his parent’s ambitions to fit in to British society.

In part two Lenny looks back on his coming of age, and explores how he and other second and third generation British-born Caribbean kids begin to mesh their identity into their art.