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Radio 3,18 mins

Black Tudors: "It filled in all the gaps of history"

Drama on 3

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Rex Obano and Dr Miranda Kaufmann on the lives of black migrants in Elizabethan England. Listen to The Moors of England, by Rex Obano, which creatively imagines the life of Fortunatus, real-life black servant to Sir Robert Cecil, as Cecil prepares a proclamation to deport black people from England and sell them into slavery. Just search BBC Sounds for The Moors of England.

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