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Benjamin Zephaniah

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Gender Male
Age 66
Web site benjaminzephaniah.com
Date of birth April 15,1958
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Handsworth
Birmingham
United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Job Actor
Poet
Author
Police officer
Playwright
Movies/Shows Ps Your Mystery Sender
Farendj
Bob Marley & Other Reggae Stars: Reggae's Got Soul
Peaky Blinders
Official site benjaminzephaniah.com
Spouse Amina Zephaniah
GenresPoetry
Teen Fiction
Literari movement Postcolonialism
Postmodernism
Siblings Velda Zephaniah
Education Broadway Academy
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Date of Upd.
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Refugee Boy
Face
Teacher's Dead
Talking Turkeys
Terror Kid
Too Black, Too Strong
Wicked World!
Propa propaganda
Funky Chickens
City psalms
We Are Britain
J Is for Jamaica
The Little Book of Vegan Poems
Dread Affair
School's Out: Poems Not for School
Kung Fu Trip (Quick Reads Edition)
When I Grow Up
Listen to Your Parents
Being Cool
Funky Turkeys
Love Poems
Gangsta Rap
Rasta time in Palestine
Primary Rhyming Dictionary
Liam
Reggae Head
Poetry Quartets
New Windmills 2002
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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British writer and dub poet. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008.

BBC Radio 4 announces Today Christmas guest editors

BBC Radio 4 announces Today Christmas guest editors
Nov 28,2022 12:40 am

... Famous faces include Prof Stephen Hawking, Prince Harry, Greta Thunberg, Angelina Jolie, Sir Lewis Hamilton, Melinda Gates, Raheem Sterling and Benjamin Zephaniah...

Peaky Blinders dance show: 'Anyone who likes Strictly can love this'

Peaky Blinders dance show: 'Anyone who likes Strictly can love this'
Sep 30,2022 11:50 am

... " Much of the story is told through dance and staging with no dialogue other than some narration courtesy of Benjamin Zephaniah, who plays Jeremiah in the BBC One series...

Windrush Day: Waterloo Station statue to be unveiled

Windrush Day: Waterloo Station statue to be unveiled
Jun 22,2022 3:20 am

... High-profile names, including actor Lenny Henry and poet Benjamin Zephaniah, have called for next year s Windrush Day to be a " major national moment" to mark the 75th anniversary...

Stars of the BBC's urge to protect, the regional current Affairs

Stars of the BBC's urge to protect, the regional current Affairs
Jun 17,2020 3:46 am

... among The signatories of the presenter Fern Britton, actor Dominic West, naturalist Chris Packham, writer and actress Daisy May Cooper, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, Director Ken Loach and broadcaster Gloria Hunniford...

Black History Month: Bob Marley's house, awarded with blue plaque

Black History Month: Bob Marley's house, awarded with blue plaque
Feb 16,2020 6:52 am

... Benjamin Zephaniah said Marley s music came from a small island in the Caribbean, and shook up the world The plaque was stuck in the planning, because Marley was not registered, the lists in telephone directories or voters...

Andrea Levy: Small Island author dies aged 62

Andrea Levy: Small Island author dies aged 62
Feb 16,2020 3:03 am

... The poet Benjamin Zephaniah said of Levy: In the future if anybody wants to have a look at how the Windrush generation arrived here and how we the sons and daughters of the Windrush generation survived and are surviving, they have to refer to Andrea s work...

Stars of the BBC's urge to protect, the regional current Affairs

Feb 16,2020 3:03 am

Stephen Fry , Fern Britton and Sir Lenny Henry are among those who have signed The Letter

dozens of channels of Stephen Fry , Sir Lenny Henry , a letter signed, don't ask The Bbc to cut the English regional events on the current time.

The Bbc has cancelled the autumn series from the Inside Out and merged its weekly regional policy programmes.

The Bbc is now "seriously under-the regional audience," letter from the National Union of journalists said.

In response, The Corporation said the Corona Virus pandemic had "forced us to prioritize our resources".

The Letter to the outgoing Director general, Lord Hall, and his successor, Tim Davie .

among The signatories of the presenter Fern Britton , actor Dominic West , naturalist Chris Packham , writer and actress Daisy May Cooper, poet Benjamin Zephaniah , Director Ken Loach and broadcaster Gloria Hunniford .

'An essential element of public service broadcasting'

you said: "Never in-depth, investigative journalism, to take account of the people and reflect the regional diversity of England has more important. "

Inside Out the shipment in 11 regions, with a wide range of stories and topics to life in these areas. Meanwhile, the regional Sunday were replaced morning political programs, during the pandemic of a single card.

The Bbc 's outgoing Director-General Lord Hall said The Bbc needs £125m savings continue to be found in this year

The Letter States: "If these cuts become permanent, you the risk are harmful to the English democracy by the failure, to an important platform for those voices in our communities that need and want to be heard.

"Even if you from the financial burdens We Are not asking to reduce The Bbc 's regional programming, and to defend an important element of public broadcasting, which is not available Anywhere Else . "

"Very real financial challenges,'

A BBC spokesman, Local and regional broadcasting said: "in The Bbc 's DNA and We Are particularly proud of how our services have performed during the last months.

"The pandemic has forced us to prioritize our resources, so we have cancelled the autumn series of Indoor and continue with a political programme for England through the summer.

"The Bbc makes the face very real financial challenges, so We Are looking, of course, what could be saved via The Bbc . "

In January, at least two-thirds of the group's staff based outside of London of 2027.

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