![]() ![]() It is his 1938 book The Black Jacobins, about the Haitian revolution, that Darcus Howe (Malachi Kirby) is reading when he gets into an argument with Barbara Beese (Rochenda Sandall). If you recognise episode one’s Aunt Betty as the actor Llewella Gideon, perhaps you were also a fan of her groundbreaking 90s sketch show The Real McCoy? All five series are currently available on iPlayer sketches such as Misery’s, about a West Indian restaurant with a very particular approach to customer service, are as hilarious as ever.Ī more serious history of the African diaspora is to be found in the writings of CLR James, Trinidadian scholar and mentor to several of the Mangrove Nine. Seek out some excerpts on YouTube, or head to the BFI Player for Rosso’s seminal 1980 film Babylon, featuring a score by all-round reggae great Dennis “Blackbeard” Bovell. In 1973, three years after the Mangrove Nine’s historic court victory – they had been arrested while protesting police harassment of the Notting Hill restaurant, but the case ended with the first official acknowledgment of police racism – the director Franco Rosso made a documentary short, The Mangrove Nine, about events leading up to the trial. This is not the first time the story of Frank Crichlow’s restaurant has been told on screen. ![]()
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