Leading Black theologian, academic and BAFTA award-winning broadcaster Dr. Robert Beckford, of Oxford Brookes University, will deliver the 7th Annual Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture, organised by the National Union of Journalists’ Black Members Council at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday October 10 at City Hall.

Dr. Beckford is a reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University. An acclaimed BBC and Channel Four broadcaster, a presenter of the Sunday Morning Show on BBC WM, his journalism work is known for tackling controversial subjects in an engaging and popular style, such as Jamaican Independence, Gospel Music, Reparations and the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. His recent documentary Undersize Me was broadcast on Channel Four on September 23.