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    Lenny Henry: ‘There were black Georgians and Tudors. Where are their stories?’

    Actor predicts ‘moment of change’ at launch of Long Song TV adaptation
    by Sarah Hughes Dec 15, 2018 3 minutes
    Lenny Henry promotes The Long Song in London last week. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage

    The British film and television industry is on the brink of a significant “moment of change” that will be driven by women, black people and other minority groups, the actor and comedian Sir Lenny Henry has said.

    “How we tell our stories and what sort of stories we tell is changing,” Henry told the at the launch of the BBC’s much-anticipated three-part adaptation of , Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel about life in 19th-century Jamaica during the final days of slavery. “What’s happening is a coalition of all

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