At a relatively young age they knew they‘d left the curriculum behind them. It’s not that they were being schooled more, or that they were inordinately bright. It’s just that their curiosity took them into the next horizon in music, creativity and collaborations. The era of Gen Zs* out-digitalizing their…

You might recognise the pose, the head tilted down in an attempt to look cerebral whilst looking through one’s eyelashes — that smokey look. This is what happens when your photos about to be taken for your radio presenter’s profile 30 years ago. Yes, 30 years at BBC GLR. Recently…

1996, making the series “The United States of Africa”, filming in South Africa as the P&D/ filmmaker. Reflecting on this ground breaking series, to me the lack of archive documenting British black people not only diminishes the public and scholars’ knowledge of Black people’s lived experience, told in their own…

It’s the 90s again as iconic Beyonce releases ‘Break My Soul’. Whether you’re a fan or not, it feeds into something bigger, much bigger, our end and that happened thirty years ago and has come to the present. In the 1990s I co-presented and produced a radio show on the…

A dear friend of mine rang me shocked. Another friend who we’d worked on a project together had passed away. It seemed incomprehensible. He appeared fit and for the short time I knew him, what a joie de vivre character! …

If I told you something about the past that directly connected to your here and now, and it’s likely you’d not experienced this before, would you like to see it yourself? We pulled our chairs a little closer, nervously. Two strangers cleaved by electronic paraphernalia about to be plunged into…

Was this the future? I thought so. What happens when you jump on a plane from the UK to the US and then take the next flight back, all for the sake of a Laptop. Would it be worth it? I was about to find out. In June 1999, I’d…

This is a precis of a lengthier article inspired by a scene in Stranger Things. I write how innovation in storytelling particularly journalism has benefitted from the outsider like Robert Drew. …

That’s what I’m about to present to our Story Lab, and then next week I’m in Bergen, Norway where I hope to share more. Norway has been kind to me in the past. It was in Oslo in 2006 where I unveiled my newly built platform on viewmagazine.tv that streamed…