Trailblazers television series

Trailblazers television series

Trailblazers is a television series presented by Kara Miller and first aired in October 2007 on the Community Channel (UK). Trailblazers is a celebration, for Black History Month, of people of colour who have achieved extraordinary things… The four interviewees are performing at the highest level in their chosen fields.

Episodes

Trailblazers Season One consists of four 15 minute episodes.
# George Harris - George Harris (actor) - originally from the Caribbean island of Grenada - his film credits include The Interpreter, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Black Hawk Down, Layer Cake and the latest Harry Potter… Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
# Precious Williams - Precious Williams (writer) is the daughter of a Nigerian princess and was ‘privately fostered’, from the age of 3 months, by a white family in West Sussex. Her first book, a memoir called Precious (Bloomsbury, 2008), lifts the lid on the private fostering phenomenon in the UK and describes her abusive childhood and her subsequent journey to finding her own identity. Born in the UK, Precious has also lived in New York and Berlin, where she has worked as a journalist, writing teacher and author. As well as writing articles that explore the human condition, Precious specializes in celebrity interviews – she has interviewed everybody from P Diddy to Colin Farrell and Naomi Campbell to Bryan Ferry. Her work has been published all over the world, in publications including the Sunday Times magazine, the New York Post, Korean Vogue, the Daily Telegraph, Elle and Marie Claire. She has also been a staff writer at the Independent on Sunday and New Nation and a Contributing Editor at the Mail on Sunday, Elle and Cosmopolitan.
# Alrick Riley - Alrick Riley (director) – he was the first and only Black British director to win a Bafta (he won two!) – Alrick has directed "Cops", "Spooks", "Hustle", "Hotel Babylon", "Judge John Deed", "Inspector Lynley" etc. and is now one of Britain's most sought after television directors.
# Paul Crooks - Paul Crooks (writer and expert in African Caribbean genealogy) - he spent 20 years of his on what seemed like an impossible quest to find his ancestors. Paul wrote a critically acclaimed work of ‘faction’ (fact and fiction) called Ancestors, which was inspired by his search for his African roots.

External links

* [http://www.trailblazerstheshow.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.communitychannel.org/ Community Channel]


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