Redemption Song (2 episodes)

Redemption Song is a series of seven documentaries in which Jamaican-born Stuart Hall examines the elements that make up the Caribbean, looking at the turbulent history of the islands and interviewing people who lived there around the time of its release in 1991.

In a programme selected by David Olusoga, we will feature two episodes: Episode 1: Iron In the Soul and Episode 7: Shades of Freedom.

Episode 1: Iron In The Soul (directed by Jenny Barraclough)
In the first of seven programmes Stuart Hall explores the British legacy in the Caribbean. The diary of slaver Thomas Thistlewood provides an extraordinary view of the British in the Caribbean 200 years ago. Their imprint is still everywhere but has been transformed with time. Yet for cricketer Wes Hall the memory of colonial days has sharp edges.

Episode 7: Shades of Freedom (directed byJenny Barraclough)
The final part of Stuart Hall 's series exploring modern life in the Caribbean. Hall visits his 100-year-old aunt, Geraldine Hall, who taught maths in the hut beside her house as she had done for 80 years. But her pupils faced an uncertain future. Drugs and corruption threaten the islands' stability and tourism and television sap their identity. Stuart Hall 's personal search takes him from illegal ganja fields in Trinidad to an overgrown estate where his mother lived.