BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Our Anniversary Obsession

From book publishers to Radio 4 commissioners, why are we so interested in anniversaries?

BBC Four - Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS

How Caribbean and African women came to the UK to save the then ailing health service.

BBC Radio 4 - Asquith’s Fight for Equality

Oona King reveals how West Indian Asquith Xavier fought a colour bar at Euston station.

Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.