Paul Convery and Diane Shelley alerted me to this wonderful sounding programme going out tomorrow on BBC Radio 4 about the Keskidee Centre on Gifford Street, Britain's first black arts centre. (iPlayer) WIth Alan's help I have dug up the 'Is This Love' video on YouTube (below or click here) and amazingly it is recognisably Gifford Street and the surrounding area. It sounds unmissable – will update with a link from iPlayer when it is up.
Paul says:
Many will remember Oscar Abrams the founder member and the centre where dub poet, Linton Kwesi Johnson was the education officer. Keskidee was the centre that Bob Marley personally selected, to shoot the video 'One Love'.'
Alan Dein says:
[Update – 'I got Is this Love' confused with 'One Love' – the latter featured extracts from the video of the former so I revised this post to embed 'Is This Love' which was entirely shot in the Keskidee Centre and surrounding streets – thanks to Alan for clearing this up – william]
The programme is available in an MP3 file that I have posted here:
http://www.paul.convery.dsl.pipex.com/downloads/20090507_keskidee.mp3