He was a prolific composer of ballet and orchestral scores evoking the rhythms of his Sephardic roots but best known for a 10 second trumpet fanfare that once announced BBC broadcasts for the Open University. Yet Leonard Salzedo remains the forgotten man of English 20th century classical music, seldom performed and little recorded, with an … Continue reading
It is sometime in the mid-1970s and a pensioner is stopped in a London street by a BBC camera crew and asked whether women should get paid to do housework. After laughing raucously several times during the exchange, she concedes that, yes, she should be getting back pay for all those “years of working for … Continue reading
The late Ghanaian fashion designer Kofi Ansah who first hit the headlines in the UK in the 1970s after creating an outfit for Princess Anne, once said, “Without clothes, we cannot play our parts.” Ansah, a Chelsea School of Art graduate who would go on to propel Ghana onto the international catwalk with his innovative … Continue reading
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