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 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 ...

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 ...

Una Marson was a poet, playwright, campaigner and broadcaster. Born in Jamaica in 1905, she first visited Britain in 1932 and spent much of the 1930s and 1940s in Britain. On her first visit to ...

Una Marson (centre) introduced Uriel Porter, Gladys Taylor, Ike Hatch, and Lionel Trim, during a BBC broadcast to the Caribbean in 1941. Actress Liz Carr is a regular on Silent Witness.

The London scheme, from English Heritage, will also celebrate novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and Jamaican writer and campaigner Una Marson. Belgium-born ...