Stories Seldom Told

"The colour of my skin marked me out as it didn't matter whether I was an immigrant or from immigrant heritage, it was the colour of my skin that they saw and attacked, which is why I wrote an album called Beyond skin rather than beyond heritage or beyond anything else. "

"It was actually the fact that your skin colour will be the first thing that people encounter or will see."

Nitin Sawhney is a CBE, a composer, producer, and multifaceted polymath who engages with the arts in every conceivable way through the filter of music.

"We're all human beings you know, let's just get on. And I think that's where I kind of say brush it off, but able to keep going."

Brendan Gilbert is a born and bred Londoner of West Indian Heritage, who runs a security systems company based in South London.

www.bdgsecurity.co.uk

In part two, Anthony Loyd speaks of his experience discovering Shamima Begum in a refugee camp in Syria. “The worst moment for me was of realising how much the focus of rage – for conscious and unconscious bias – that she became to this society.”

Times war correspondent, Anthony Loyd, shares his stories of unconscious bias in regions of conflict, “I'm speaking as someone who is full of prejudice, because I'm neither dead nor a rock.”

“I feel when an Indian girl gets married. She doesn't become a wife. She thinks she should become a mother to the man.”

“I always felt small in my bigness.”

"I can spend the rest of my life hating my body and I have nothing to show for it. Or I embrace myself, because no one else is going to if I don't."

Vidya Balan is a multiple award-winning Bollywood actor who has pioneered a change in the concept of a Hindi film heroine and is referred to as the first female hero of modern times.

Besides being known for her path breaking work in cinema, she's also known for the humanitarian causes she has supported over the years. https://www.arpan.org.in/about-arpan/