Description: Talking heads about the life of Harold Moody. Growing up as an anglophile upper middle class child in Jamaica, being sent to London by his parents to become an Englishman. Archive footage and stills of Jamaica and turn of century London. Has trouble finding somewhere to stay before going to Kings College Hospital for his medical studies – he is turned away, racism. Had letters of invitation from London Missionary Society, congregational mission – gets accommodation through them, he has friends in high places. People are surprised by him, he is bourgeois well-read, knows Shakespeare etc. He excelled at KCH, won a bible prize that became his diary. He graduated but couldn't get a job in a hospital, he is turned down for being a 'nigger doctor'. He moved to Peckham, and his income was supplemented by Marylebone medical mission. He stayed in Peckham ten years – documented in his bible. He married a white nurse, mixed race couple stood out and caused tension. But it was a happy marriage. He was superintendent at Clifton Congregational Church. He became a doctor of medicine, member of Royal College of Surgeons. He was a good doctor, very popular in Peckham. (10:00) Description of the house and surgery, tennis court in the garden, two maids. He was known locally as 'the black doctor', and well-thought of. Patients describe being treated by him. Their house in the early 1930s at 164 Queen's Road was the meeting place for black intellectuals in London, visitors book reads like a who's who of black history: Paul Robeson, CLR James, Learie Constantine. He argued for better treatment for black people in the UK, and was in demand as a preacher. Became involved with Camberwell Green congregational church, and was chairman of board of directors of Colonial Missionary Society. President of London Christian Endeavour congregation. Dramatisation of his speeches with an actor. He founded the League of Coloured Peoples in 1931, as a Christian organisation, very middle class, and with a mix of black and white members, promoting racial harmony, inviting colonial governors. He was denounced by some, especially more radical people. The league was part of life in the family home, the children would help, typing letters, the dining table laid out like a board room. Barbara Castle on attitudes to blacks and education and governance. (20:00) Sea ports employed many black seamen but in 1935 in the depression many lost their jobs – Moody fought for them lobbying for their rights. Italian invasion of Ethiopia politicises the League of Coloured Peoples, they run protest meetings. Black recruits in build up to Second World War were non-commissioned, second rate soldiers – Moody tried to fight for this. Some exceptions began to be made, for the duration of the war. In the RAF similar. The Home Office didn't want to attribute this change to Moody. But it was a gradual change. After the war he wanted to raise money to build a West Indian cultural centre in London. In 1946 he went to Trinidad to raise money. Didn't raise enough, but became ill on way home and died a week after returning. Nobody was capable of stepping into his shoes, so the organisation folded. But even today the League of Coloured Peoples was the most successful longest running black campaigning organisation in black British history.