The Roselle and Friends Talk Show is a series of weekly TV Talk Shows about the lives of Black people in Britain, as well as issues which relate to the Black heritage population that impact globally on their lives. The half-hour program on Sky Channel 589, 11.30am on Wednesdays, has its ethos embodied in the 4 x E’s – “Entertaining, Enabling, Effective, Empowering communities,” as well as its programming content. It presents a Magazine-style of a Main feature, Roselle’s Kitchen with Caribbean food, Health and Lifestyle issues.
The show’s unique mix of empowerment and information is safe and captivating for family viewing and its targeted output. Programmed at mid-morning peak time, for the multicultural community and cosmopolitan community, it’s currently being broadcast on Faith World TV in the UK, an award winning TV channel, operating as a non-mainstream channel, dissemination to the Black, Asian and European community predominantly untouched by mainstream viewing channels. The Channel reaches out to a global audience of over 45 million homes through the Sky television platform 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is also streamed live on the internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
The Roselle & Friends Talk Shows present individuals’ achievements which, for the most part, have not been documented, highlighted, or broadcast, so that they remain the unsung Heroes or “silent contributors” to British society. These Talk Shows contain information about preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the artistic and social, cultural, and political history of settled Africans and Caribbean people in the Diaspora, living in the UK.
Weaving themes of art, migration to Britain and personal social histories, they also tell us “What’s British about African Caribbean peoples?” and feed into questions such as, “What Shall I Tell My Black British Children?” The Roselle and Friends Talk Shows are also adamantly re-writing history from the people’s experiences, as told by the individuals themselves; which provoke discussions about citizenship and accounts for the multitude of changing attitudes, styles, and thoughts from Britain’s Black community. More specifically, the Roselle and Friends Talk Shows help to:
