You might not have heard of Una Marson, but that’s about to change thanks to a new documentary shining a light on the extraordinary life and work of the BBC’s first Black producer and ...

Una Marson, the BBC’s first black radio producer who worked at the BBC in the 1940s, platforming Caribbean voices for the first time on the airwaves. The page will automatically reload.

This is the extraordinary story of Una Marson - trailblazing poet, playwright and campaigner, and the first Black producer and broadcaster at the BBC. A Caribbean woman born in the early 1900s ...

Another first is declared by the determined gaze of the BBC’s first black radio producer Una Marson. An activist and intellectual Marson joined the League of Coloured Peoples on her move to ...

Una Marson was a journalist, editor, playwright and poet committed to advancing Black people’s rights and building the literary tradition in the Caribbean. Born in 1905 in Jamaica, Marson completed ...