For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Chris BennionA Very British History: The First Black BrummiesBBC Four, 9pmWith the BBC’s monologue series Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle continuing tonight (BBC Four, 10pm) and the Windrush immigration scandal rumbling on indecently, the second episode of BBC Four’s A Very British History is well scheduled indeed. The Birmingham-born poet Sue Brown looks at Caribbean immigration to the city from the 1950s to the 1970s, an influx that included her parents, who came over from Jamaica like so many West Indians with a “five-year plan” to make some money in the mother country before heading home. Like many others, they stayed. “Those coming had no idea of what they were…

Source: The Times February 18, 2019 00:09 UTC