Caribbean Voices

Pauline Henriques and Samuel Selvon reading a story on Caribbean Voices, 1952.

Caribbean Voices was a radio programme broadcast by the BBC World Service from Bush House in London, England, between 1943 and 1958. It is considered "the programme in which West Indian literary talents first found their voice, in the early 1950s."[1] Caribbean Voices nurtured many writers who went on to wider acclaim, including Samuel Selvon, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, John Figueroa, Andrew Salkey, Michael Anthony, Edgar Mittelholzer, Sylvia Wynter, and others.

  1. ^ Pamela Beshoff, "Obituary: John Figueroa", The Independent, 11 March 1999.