‘I jumped for joy’: Floella Benjamin, Adrian Lester and more on their top screen moments - I Newz360

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Saturday, November 6, 2021

‘I jumped for joy’: Floella Benjamin, Adrian Lester and more on their top screen moments

From In the Heat of the Night to Loose Women, Black British actors, directors and producers recall their landmark film and TV viewing experiences

I was about eight or nine years old. We had one TV in the house which sometimes people fought for control over. In those days, you watched one channel at a time and if you missed your programme, well, you missed it. I had been playing in the garden or something when I heard loud shouts of “Yes!” “Gwaan!” “You See Dat!?” I went to see what was going on. It was normally sport that got that kind of reaction, but I found my grandfather, uncle and aunt watching an American Black man on television in a suit, staring at an older white man wearing an apron. I was only small but I realised something big had happened.

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