The Nun Who Nurtured Reggae
March 7th, 2008 by Russell DaviesThe 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)
