[Marxism] CLR James Radio Documentary

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is late for the first two parts, but the third and final program will
be broadcast on May 17th at 9pm.

Charles



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Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 9:07 PM

Subject: Second Part of CLR James Radio Documentary on May 10

Greetings Friends,

This is to remind you that the second part of the landmark radio documentary
on the life and ideas of Trinidadian intellectual CLR James produced by
Montreal writer David Austin will be airing on CBC Radio One's IDEAS (live
on the net at http://www.cbc.ca <http://www.cbc.ca/>  ) on May 10th at 9pm.
The third and final program will be broadcast on May 17th at 9pm.

Please do spread the word. Thanks.

Sincerely,

Adrian Harewood

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 9, 2005

A Three Part Documentary on The Life and Ideas of CLR James on CBC RADIO's
IDEAS May 3rd,10th and 17th.

Edward Said, Derek Walcott, E.P. Thompson, V.S. Naipaul, Mark Kingwell,
Tariq Ali, Stuart Hall, Linton Kwesi Johnson - these are but a few of the
many thinkers, writers, and political figures who have been influenced by
the work of C.L.R. James. As a thinker who has been described as a modern
Plato, C.L.R. James was the quintessential Renaissance man whose
contributions in the areas of political theory, history, literary criticism,
sport, popular culture, and philosophy have earned him respect as one of the
great and most influential thinkers of the 20th century.

On May 10th, 2005 at 9 pm, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's IDEAS
will air the second in a three part radio documentary, The Black Jacobin, on
the life and work of C.L.R. James (part three will air on May 17, also at 9
pm).

Born in 1901 in Trinidad, C.L.R. James was one the Caribbean's first major
writers of fiction and his only novel, Minty Alley, is considered a
foundational work in Caribbean letters that paved the way for the writing of
Nobel Prize winners V.S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott and the Barbadian George
Lamming. In the 1930s, James worked alongside his boyhood friend George
Padmore and several Africans and West Indians - Jomo Kenyatta, Nnamdi
Azikiwe, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Eric Williams, Arthur Lewis, and Kwame Nkrumah
- who would later go on to play major roles in the African and Caribbean
anti-colonial struggles. At the time, he also wrote about cricket for the
Manchester Guardian and the Glasgow Herald, and ghost wrote the
autobiography of the great cricketer Learie Constantine.

As a leading figure in the international socialist movement, C.L.R.

James penned World Revolution which at the time was considered the
definitive book on the political evolution of the Soviet Union and the

post-1917 international socialist movement. He also wrote one of his
signature works, the classic history of the 1804 Haitian Revolution, The
Black Jacobins, a book that presaged the African independence movements of
the 1950s and 1960s.

C.L.R. James collaborated with the exiled Leon Trotsky in Mexico, lectured
on Shakespeare and Herman Melville, and wrote Beyond a Boundary, a book
about cricket, art, and Greek drama that has been described, by Sports
Illustrated, among others, as one of the greatest books ever written on
sport.

As a lecturer in the United States, he also served as a mentor to leaders of
Students for a Democratic Society, Stokely Carmichael and numerous leaders
of the Black Power movement before retiring to England in the 1980s. In many
ways, James was also a precursor to such notable public intellectuals as
Tariq Ali, Edward Said, Angela Davis, and Noam Chomsky.

Presented by writer David Austin, The Black Jacobin examines the life and
work C.L.R. James' - his early life in the Caribbean, his appreciation of
cricket and literature, his involvement in socialist and Pan-African
Politics, and several of his major works. The program includes interviews
with Stuart Hall, Mark Kingwell, Ken Wiwa, Selma James, and historian and
C.L.R. James Literary Executor Robert Hill. The documentary also explores
James' little-known, but very significant, connection to Canada in the
1960s.



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