18-418: Stephen Bourne may refer to: Stephen Bourne (writer) (born 1957), British writer, film and social historian Stephen R. Bourne (born 1944), British-born computer scientist [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
36-769: A Black History Month special; The Culture Show : Swingin' into the Blitz ( BBC2 , 2016), Home Front Heroes (More4, 2016). and TV's Greatest: Black on the Box ( Channel 5 , 2024). In 2018, Bourne was interviewed about his Evelyn Dove photograph collection for BBC1's Antiques Roadshow . In 2021, he was interviewed about Evelyn Dove , Adelaide Hall and Ken "Snakehips" Johnson in the series The Definitive History of Jazz in Britain , presented by Clive Myrie for Jazz FM . In 2022, Bourne paid tribute to Sidney Poitier in BBC Radio 4's Last Word ,
54-472: A production of C. L. R. James 's play The Black Jacobins in 1986 at the Riverside Studios as the first play to be staged by the black-led company, with Norman Beaton in the principal role of Toussaint L'Ouverture . Another landmark came in 1991 when she directed the first all-black production of William Shakespeare `s Antony and Cleopatra , starring Doña Croll and Jeffery Kissoon . Brewster
72-603: A second CRE award in the same category for Black in the West End , a celebration of Black musical theatre in London's West End . Bourne was the recipient of a Wingate Scholarship in 2011. Yvonne Brewster Yvonne Jones Brewster OBE ( née Clarke ; born 7 October 1938) is a Jamaican actress, theatre director and businesswoman, known for her role as Ruth Harding in the BBC television soap opera Doctors . She co-founded
90-764: Is a British writer, film and social historian specialising in Black heritage and gay culture. He was a research officer at the British Film Institute on a project that documented the history of Black people in British television. He wrote Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930–71 published in 1996. His book Black in the British Frame: Black People in British Film and Television 1896-1996
108-681: Is a patron of the Clive Barker Centre for Theatrical Innovation. She married after returning to England from Jamaica in 1971, and she and her husband now live in Florence . In the 1993 New Year Honours , Brewster was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 2001 she was granted an honorary doctorate from the Open University . She received a living legend award from
126-593: The National Black Theatre Festival in 2001. She featured on the 2003 list of 100 Great Black Britons . In 2005, the University of London 's Central School of Speech and Drama conferred an honorary fellowship on Brewster in acknowledgment of her involvement in the development of British theatre. In 2013, she was named one of the BBC 's 100 Women . In 2004, Brewster published her memoirs, entitled The Undertaker’s Daughter: The Colourful Life of
144-731: The UK to study drama at Rose Bruford College – where she was the UK's first Black woman drama student, being told on her first day that she was unlikely to find theatrical work in Britain – and also attended the Royal Academy of Music , receiving a distinction in Drama and Mime. She returned to Jamaica to teach Drama and in 1965 she also jointly founded (with Trevor Rhone ) The Barn in Kingston , Jamaica's first professional theatre company. Upon her return to England in
162-719: The Bar (2015) with Sir Lenny Henry , From Shame to Pride (2017), The Film Programme (2018), Last Word (2019 and 2022), The Secret History of a School (2019), Great Lives (Ira Aldridge) (2022) and Front Row (2019 and 2024). He has also appeared in Four Thought (2020) and Free Thinking (2021) for BBC Radio 3 ; The Raw Pearl Bailey (2018) for BBC Radio 2 ; and Robert Elms Show (2019 and 2023) for BBC Radio London . His television appearances include Black Divas ( Channel 4 , 1996); American Masters – Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999); The One Show ( BBC1 , 2013 and in 2020
180-652: The Great War was published by The History Press . Reviewing it in The Independent , Bernardine Evaristo said: "Until historians and cultural map-makers stop ignoring the historical presence of people of colour, books such as this one provide a powerful, revelatory counterbalance to the whitewashing of British history." Following the publication of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities in March 2021, Bourne revealed he
198-688: The Metropolitan Police Volunteer Award for his work as independent adviser on critical incidents. In 2013 Bourne was nominated for a Southwark Heritage Blue Plaque for his work as a community historian and Southwark Police independent adviser. He came second with 1,025 votes. In May 2017, he was honoured at the 12th Screen Nation Awards for his work on the history of Black Britons in film and television. In 2017 he received an Honorary Fellowship from London South Bank University . Bourne's BBC Radio 4 appearances have included Miss Lou at RADA (2005) with Yvonne Brewster , Raising
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#1732851714869216-552: The early 1970s, she worked extensively in radio, television, and directing for stage productions. Between 1982 and 1984, she was Drama Officer at the Arts Council of Great Britain . In 1985 she co-founded Talawa Theatre Company with Mona Hammond , Carmen Munroe and Inigo Espejel, using funding from the Greater London Council (then led by Ken Livingstone ). Brewster was Talawa's artistic director until 2003, directing
234-429: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stephen_Bourne&oldid=991684344 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Stephen Bourne (writer) Stephen Bourne (born 31 October 1957)
252-579: The theatre companies Talawa in the UK and The Barn in Jamaica. Born in Kingston , Jamaica , Brewster said she was inspired to become an actress at the age of 16, when her father took her to the Ward Theatre "to see a French play, called Huis Clos , written by Jean Paul Sartre . And in it was Mona Chin , who I thought looked just like me. She was fantastic. I looked at this woman and I said, 'Hey, Daddy, I want to be like her. ' " In 1956, Brewster went to
270-552: Was a nine-part series that Bourne conceived and scripted for Ladbroke Radio/BBC Radio 2, celebrating the achievements of Black African, Caribbean and British singers and musicians from the 1930s to the 1960s. Subjects included Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson , Reginald Foresythe , Evelyn Dove , Leslie Thompson , Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson , Ken "Snakehips" Johnson , Cyril Blake , Rudolph Dunbar , Fela Sowande , Edric Connor , Winifred Atwell , Ray Ellington , Cy Grant , Geoff Love and Shirley Bassey . The following year, Bourne received
288-457: Was interviewed about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 's daughter, the composer and conductor Avril Coleridge-Taylor in BBC Radio 3's Hidden Women and Silenced Scores and contributed to BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profile of Ira Aldridge . In 1993, for Salutations , Bourne received a Race in the Media Award for Best Radio Documentary from the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE). Salutations
306-552: Was listed as a contributor to the report without his knowledge, stating that he felt manipulated. His book Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre was published in 2021 and his book Amanda Ira Aldridge and Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Getting the Tempo Right (about British composers Amanda Ira Aldridge and Avril Coleridge-Taylor ) in 2024. In 2002 Bourne received
324-495: Was published in 1998. His Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television followed on it in 2001. He also wrote books on American actors Elisabeth Welch , Ethel Waters , Butterfly McQueen , and Nina Mae McKinney . He co-authored a pair of books with Esther Bruce about her life as a seamstress in London. In 2014, Bourne's book Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and
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