All the BBC World Service music podcasts gathered into one place. New documentaries will be added intermittently. Only available in the UK.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrwqn
Black Fire
Ignited by confrontation with the police and a revival of Black consciousness (the term ‘woke’, Black Lives Matter), and following waves of political insurgency across America, present and past join together in music and spoken word. Broadcaster and jazz writer Kevin Legendre draws these threads together, meeting hip hop pioneers The Last Poets, singer Carleen Anderson, jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater, the rapper Jasiri X, percussionist Questlove, Black Power poet Sonia Sanchez and Gil Scott Heron’s writing partner Brian Jackson, and asks - is Black music revolutionary music once again?