The actor Anni Domingo, who returned from Sierra Leone to the UK as a teenager, recalls being told at an audition that she was too dark. ‘And that was it,’ says Anni. ‘I never opened my mouth. I never sang. I never danced.’

The actor Anni Domingo, who returned from Sierra Leone to the UK as a teenager, recalls being told at an audition that she was too dark. ‘And that was it,’ says Anni. ‘I never opened my mouth. I never sang. I never danced.’

The actor Anni Domingo, who returned from Sierra Leone to the UK as a teenager, recalls being told at an audition that she was too dark. ‘And that was it,’ says Anni. ‘I&nbsp;never opened my mouth. I never sang. I never danced.’

Anni Domingo

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. It’s a chance to listen to Britain, to hear voices often drowned out by shrill anti-immigrant rhetoric. The series explores richly rewarding stories which complicate the very nature of what we consider British. Drawing from the podcast series, the oral history, What We Leave We Carry will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2026.

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