How Caribbean Voices put rising stars from the West Indies on the map
he literary and cultural historian Clair Wills recently wrote that, for aspiring immigrant writers in 1950s Britain, “the central character in almost all accounts of day-to-day life was the BBC”. If so, one reason the radio series established in 1943 by Una Marson and edited for many years by her successor, the Irishman Henry Swanzy.
