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BBC R4 - Robert Birmingham's 'The Black Birds Of St. Giles'
Directed by Anne Eddyvene
Broadcast January 30, 1993
Coded from tape at 160/44.1

Worthy period piece about central London's black community at the back end
of the 18th Century. The 'ghetto' was in tenements (called Rookeries) in the
parish of the Church of St Giles in The Fields.

The church is a tad SE of Centre Point. St Giles is, loosely, the area bounded
South of New Oxford Street, East of Charing Cross Road, North of Seven Dials,
and West of Great Russell Street.

The community (estimates vary between 5,000 and 20,000) included freed personal
servants/slaves brought to London by, say, returning planters or bought in London as
fashion accessories; soldiers and sailors released by the military at close of hostilities
in The Seven Years' War (1763) and the Revolt of the Colonies (1782), say, a thousand
loyalists relocated to England from the US republic (3,000 more went to Nova Scotia);
released slaves (illegal in England after 1772), and slave traders.

The fashion for African artefacts, and things black faded, just as many more
were released by the 1772 judgement (many via England's own 'Underground
Railroad'). But the Poor Laws made the community a burden on the parish. The
Sierra Leone settlement started ... aso

This play is some of that story. Another chunk of it can be found in: 'Contraband':
https://torrentgalaxy.to/torrent/15807802/BBC-R4-Production---John-Fletcher-amp--039-s--amp--039-Contraband-amp--039-

Cast
John Webb
Ben Wynter
Akim Mogaji
David Harwood
Keith Drinkle
John Flemming
Belinda Walker
Clarence Smith
Colin McFarlane
Malcom Frederics
Sandra James Young



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