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Tina Campbell

Lenny Henry ‘always surprised by lack of black people at Glastonbury’

Glastonbury in 2019

(Picture: PA Archive)

Sir Lenny Henry has questioned the lack of diversity in audiences at UK festivals including Glastonbury as he called for better representation of ethnic minorities across British culture.

The 63-year-old Comic Relief founder – who shot to fame as the first black performer on the controversial Black And White Minstrel Show – made his remarks ahead of the release of his new two-part documentary about Caribbean culture in Britain later this month.

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