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December 4th: Today's Feature - Sir Viv Richards, Pt II
PART II: Viv Richards
After cricket
Richards is a commentator on BBC's Test Match Special (TMS). He participated in Prince Edward of the United Kingdom's 1987 charity television special The Grand Knockout Tournament. He was featured in the 2010 documentary movie Fire in Babylon and spoke about his experiences playing for the West Indies. Richards joined the Delhi Daredevils as their mentor in The Indian Premier League in 2013, and also mentored the Quetta Gladiators in the 2
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December 3rd: Today's Feature - Sir Viv Richards, KNH, OBE, OOC, Cricketer
Part 1: Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards KNH, OBE, OOC, (born 7 March 1952) is an Antiguan retired cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Batting generally at number three in a dominant West Indies side, Richards is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Richards helped win his team the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
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December 2nd: Today's Feature - Arthur Torrington CBE, Community Advocate and Historian
Arthur Torrington, CBE is a Guyanese-born Community Advocate and Historian who is Director and co-founder of the London-based Windrush Foundation, a charity that since 1996 has been working to highlight the contributions to the UK of African and Caribbean peoples, "to keep alive the memories of the young men and women who were among the first wave of post-war settlers in Britain", and to promote good community relations.
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December 1st: Today's Feature - Altheia Jones-LeCointe, British Black Panther Leader, Political Activist
Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jones-LeCointe came to public attention in 1970 as one of the nine protestors, known as the Mangrove Nine, arrested and tried on charges that included conspiracy to incite a riot, following a protest against repeated police raids of The Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill, London.
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December 31st Part II: Paul Canonville Later Career He moved down to non-league football, making appearances for Enfield, Maidenhead...
Dec 31, 2023


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December 30th Paul Kenneth Canoville (born 4 March 1962) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He was...
Dec 30, 2023


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December 29th Dyke, Dryden, and Wade The achievements of the first Black British entrepreneurs to reach multimillion pound status have...
Dec 29, 2023


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December 28th Fanny Eaton (23 June 1835 – 4 March 1924) was a Jamaican-born artist's model and domestic worker. She is best known as a...
Dec 28, 2023


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December 27th Jak Beula Dodd (born John Bubeula Dodd on 4 July 1963), commonly known as Jak Beula, is a British entrepreneur and cultural...
Dec 27, 2023
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