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The Nun Who Nurtured Reggae

March 7th, 2008 by Russell Davies

The title says it all really. It’s the story of Sister Mary Ignatius Davis of the Alpha Boys School, Jamaica. The school encouraged ‘wayward boys’ to get interested in music; creating generation of musicians who played key parts in the creation of the Jamaica music business and culture. And ‘Sister Iggy’ ran her own sound system and had a massive collection of reggae records. MP3 here.

(Interestingly there’s very little information about the programme on the Radio 4 site, or on the official programme page, but there’s a long interview, and fascinating extra stuff on the BBC Caribbean page, which still has the show on Listen Again)

Presenter: Jonathon Charles
Listen: [MP3]

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6 Responses to “The Nun Who Nurtured Reggae”

  1. steve Says:
    March 7th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Good detective work, Davies. Thought that one was a gonner.

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    March 8th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

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  3. Jacques Says:
    March 11th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    Thanks so much for posting this one! I caught the first 10 mins while dropping stuff at a charity shop one Saturday morning, had been trying to track it down.

  4. John Baldy Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    There’s lots more info about Sister Iggy and the Alpha Boys School and its musical graduates at:
    http://www.myspace.com/alphaboysschool

    I hope you find it of interest

    Respect

    Baldy

  5. Jack Mottram Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm

    Great stuff. (I first heard about Sister Iggy via Lee Perry - since he’d just finished explaining how he was the secret controller of the IMF, for years I thought she was a figment of his imagination.)

  6. delicious mark hubery Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    Blog Hopper…

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