Lenny Henry

Rising to the Surface traces Lenny Henry's career through the '80s and '90s. The 16-year-old who won a talent competition now has to navigate his way through the seas of professional comedy, learning his craft through sheer graft and hard work....

At the abolition of the slave trade two centuries ago, the British government paid huge amounts of compensation to slave-owners. Only in 2015 did British taxpayers stop paying off this debt.

In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and why we need to fight for Black lives to matter - not just for Black people but for society as a whole....

Joining forces with the former chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, Sir Lenny Henry draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective and why they are simply not enough....