Jeff Sparrow
Paul Robeson was one of the most loved singers of the twentieth century. He was also one of the most maligned. He was a prominent leader of the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and particularly associated with the workers movement. In Sydney, when he visited in the 1960s he preferred to sing to the workers on the opera house than for the well heeled potential patrons of said opera house. For these 'crimes', and his Soviet sympathies, he was persecuted by the American state. Jeff Sparrow, freelance journalist and radio presenter, traces the radical history of Robeson through his music. This is a not to be missed session.