'Statue toppler' supporting BBC star to get BAFTA award

'Statue toppler' supporting BBC star to get BAFTA award May 2, 2023 9:22:47 GMT

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Post by Dan Dare on May 2, 2023 9:22:47 GMT

Self-styled ‘Geordie Nigerian’ and much-fêted telly-don of colour David Olusoga is to be presented with a special award for ‘outstanding contributions’ at this year’s Bafta TV awards. For reference I have lifted his ‘filmography’ from Wikipedia and reproduce it here; keen-eyed readers will discern immediately a central theme for his ‘contributions’.

 The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire (2014)
 Fighting for King and Empire: Britain's Caribbean Heroes (2015)
 The One Show (various episodes)
 Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners (2015)
 Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016)
 Timewatch: "British Empire – Heroes and Villains" and "Dictators and Despots" (both 2017)
 Civilisations (two of nine episodes, "First Contact" and "The Cult of Progress") (2018)
 A House Through Time (2018–2021)
 The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files (2019)
 Statue Wars: One Summer in Bristol (2021)

 Our NHS: A Hidden History (2021)

Longer-term readers may also recall the reviews I wrote in response to several of these contributions, intended as a corrective for the toe-curlingly fawning encomiums that appeared in the legacy media. In particular the 2016 series Black and British: A Forgotten History and the accompanying book came in for considerable heavy flak in a piece I wrote for he now defunct Politics Forum UK. This was prompted by the re-broadcast of the series by the BBC at the height of the BLM disturbances. I will be re-posting this review here following some minor editing.

Closing thoughts. I’m unsure what the award comprises but hopefully the worthies who voted for Olusoga will be having a whip-round for a pair of socks, some proper shoes perhaps even a grown-up haircut as well. Call me a trditionalist but I do like my Professors of History to look the part as well.