Today’s episode features the actor, writer, musician and glover, Lula Mebrahtu, known more usually as LULA.XYZ. Ahead of her upcoming double bill performance at The Pleasance Theatre, we discussed Lula’s multi-media approach to storytelling, how she integrates her personal experiences into her work and unpacked the themes of her latest show I AM - A Walking Universe which is the 2nd instalment to her AfroFuturistic Theatre series OommoO. ‘This episode is a harrowing true story about medical racism, identity and self’.

You can catch the upcoming performance on:

Friday 25th OCT

I AM - OommoO (7pm)

I AM - A Walking Universe (8.45pm)

To find out more about Lula’s work, go to:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lula.xyz

Tickets for Friday: https://www.lulamebrahtu.com/

Black in The City of London is a podcast dedicated to examining the black experience in the Square Mile. In this episode Jonathan Goddard interviews Howard Doble, the senior archivist at the London Metropolitan Archive, about the Unforgotten Lives exhibition and the work done at the LMA to represent the experiences of global majority peoples in London from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Black in The City of London is a podcast dedicated to examining the black experience in the Square Mile, aiming to tell the stories of black people who have connections to the City, from antiquity until the present day. For more information and for the episode’s show notes, go to: ⁠http://www.blackinthecity.uk⁠

Black in The City of London is a podcast dedicated to examining the black experience in the Square Mile. In this episode Jonathan Goddard interviews Brycchan Carey: an academic, author, and public speaker, whose interests include the history of natural history, slavery and abolition, empire, and Black British history and literature. They discuss the lives and writings of Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano.

The music that introduces this episode is provided by the wonderful Green Ginger ensemble, who specialise in historical dance music. You can purchase their renditions of Ignatius Sancho's Cotillions Etc from the following links:

https://greenginger.bandcamp.com/album/ignatius-sancho-cotillions-etc

https://greengingerband.co.uk/

In the second half of the episode, Jonathan Goddard interviews Celine Luppo McDaid, the Donald Hyde Curator and the Director of Dr. Johnson’s House, a museum near Fleet Street, which celebrates and documents the life of Dr. Samuel Johnson. They discuss the life and significance of Johnson’s Jamaican manservant, Francis Barber.

Black in The City of London is a podcast dedicated to examining the black experience in the Square Mile, aiming to tell the stories of black people who have connections to the City, from antiquity until the present day. For more information and for the episode’s show notes, go to: http://www.blackinthecity.uk

Black in The City of London is a podcast dedicated to examining the black experience in the Square Mile. In this episode Jonathan Goddard interviews Nick Draper, formerly Co-director of the Structure and Significance of British Caribbean Slave-ownership 1763-1833 project (2013-2015) and co-founder of the original Legacies of British Slave-ownership project (2009-2012). They discuss the economic connections between the docks, slavery and the City of London, the nature and scale of wealth derived from British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and the involvement of British financial institutions in profiting from the trade.

In the second half of the episode, Jonathan Goddard interviews Jean-Francois Manicom, Senior Curator at the Museum of London Docklands. They discuss how the Museum, which sits in a waterside warehouse atop the West India docks, covers the topic of transatlantic slavery and the challenges of telling this story.

Black in The City of London is a podcast dedicated to examining the black experience in the Square Mile, aiming to tell the stories of black people who have connections to the City, from antiquity until the present day. For more information and for the episode’s show notes, go to: http://www.blackinthecity.uk