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Date and Time

18th February 2026

Location

Screen NFT1, BFI Southbank
Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT

Speakers and Artists
  • Sarita Malik
  • Julian Henriques
  • K Biswas

The British Film Institute (BFI) and the Stuart Hall Foundation present a look back on the impact of Professor Stuart Hall, through a screening and discussion featuring programmes Hall developed with CARM (Campaign Against Racism in the Media) and the Commission for Racial Equality.

Open Door: It Ain’t Half Racist Mum
BBC 1979. BBC Community Programme Unit in association with Campaign Against Racism in the Media. 29min. Digital

Language is the Key
UK 1985. Director Yugesh Walia. 39min. Digital

It Ain’t Half Racist Mum, produced for the BBC’s Open Door series, presents a rigorous deconstruction of racism in British media. It will be screened alongside a new digitisation of Language is the Key, an exploration of the relationship between language and power featuring contributions from Hall.

A panel discussion will take place after the screening, considering how Hall’s pioneering work on media remains essential for analysing the political and cultural dynamics of multiculturalism. Professor Julian Henriques and Professor Sarita Malik will participate in the panel discussion hosted by K Biswas.

The two TV programmes will include descriptive subtitles, and the discussion will include live captions and a BSL interpreter.

Tickets are on sale now and cost £6.50.

Reflecting on Stuart Hall’s Impact is part of Constructed, Told, Spoken: A Counter-History of Britain on TV, a seasonal programme at the BFI exploring Afro-Caribbean and South Asian Britons’ use of television to advocate for political and social representation in postwar Britain.

Produced by the BFI in association with the Stuart Hall Foundation.

Image: It Ain’t Half Racist Mum

Speakers and Artists

Sarita Malik

Sarita Malik is Professor of Media and Culture at Brunel University of London. Since the 1990s, Sarita’s work has made a major contribution to how ‘diversity’, social justice and the role of arts and culture are understood through policy and practice, most notably in the Creative Industries. Publications have spanned topics including ‘race’, representation and diversity in film, public service broadcasting and the cultural industries. Sarita has led a number of research projects in collaboration with the BFI – and the BFI is where Sarita conducted her doctoral research in the 1990s, under the principal supervision of the late cultural theorist, Stuart Hall. This led to her first book publication, Representing Black Britain (2002) which traced the history of Black and Asian representation on British television since the 1930s.

Julian Henriques

Julian Henriques is a film writer-director, sound artist and Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. Stuart was a close friend of the Henriques family over many years.

K Biswas

K Biswas is a critic who has written for the New Statesman, New York Times, The Observer, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the Chair of Resonance FM, Europe’s most popular community radio station, and Editor of Representology: The Journal of Media and Diversity.