Black is The New Black

Exceptional figures from politics, business, sport, culture, religion and science share their insights into being black and British today, how they got where they are and their thoughts on what the future holds.

This episode focuses on the years from adolescence to adulthood when the dreams and ambitions of our contributors started to become a reality and the extraordinary lengths they had to go to achieve their goals.

Tokenism, typecasting, lack of access to capital, proving yourself twice over, are just some of the problems our cast discuss. And that's all before the self censorship that prevents many from achieving their full potental.

Our cast talk mostly of their pride in being British and their love for the country as epitomised at the phenomenon of the 2012 London Olympics, where black athletes wrapped themselves in the Union Jack and decades of racism seemed to be on the path to being put firmly in the past.