Alex Pascall, OBE is a British broadcaster, journalist, musician, composer, oral historian and educator. Based in Britain for more than 50 years, he was one of the developers of the Notting Hill Carnival, is a political campaigner and was part of the team behind the birth of Britain's first national Black newspaper The Voice. Credited with having "established a Black presence in the British media", Pascall is most notable as having been one of the first regular Black radio voices in the UK, presenting the programme Black Londoners on BBC Radio London for 14 years from 1974. Initially planned as a test series of six programmes, Black Londoners became, in 1978, the first Black daily radio show in British history.
Born Grenada, travelled to Britain as a 22-year-old in 1959. The first issue of The Voice coincided with the 1984 Notting Hill Carnival. 1984-9 he was chairman of the Carnival and Arts Committee.
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