Motown's Black Forum Label - Bbc Radio 4 Jan 9th 2014

Motown's Black Forum Label - Documentary On BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 has a documentary about the Motown Black Forum Label. It will be broadcast on Thursday 9th January 2014 at 11.30 am, presented by Alvin Hall. Show includes Suzanne de Passe

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Black Forum was Motown's spoken word label. Its eight albums reflect African-American experience at a turbulent time in America. Alvin Hall talks to those behind the recordings.

In 1970, Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, set up a Motown spoken-word label. It was called Black Forum and it recorded poetry, civil rights speeches, African-American soldiers in Vietnam and more. The label closed in 1973 after eight releases. In recent years, those releases have started to attract interest and some of them have been reissued. What has been revealed is a powerful testament to the African-American experience at a turbulent time in American society. Alvin, the financial educator and spoken-word record collector listens to the recordings and talks to those who were involved in their making.