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Salt by Selina Thompson

Performance artist Selina Thompson recreates her award-winning dramatic monologue about a journey she made by cargo ship to retrace the triangular route of the transatlantic slave trade. Poetic and deeply personal, Salt is part testimony, part performance and part excavation of collective memory through archive and music. Throughout the film, Thompson explores her painfully difficult but ultimately redemptive exploration of the Atlantic triangle, and in doing so, takes us on a cathartic pilgrimage through grief, race and identity. Darkly comic in places, but also intensely sad, Salt is Thompson’s deeply human response to being both British and a descendant of a people enslaved by the British.

English
  • Originally Aired October 24, 2021
  • Runtime 46 minutes
  • Production Code m0010zdp
  • Network United Kingdom BBC Four
  • On Other Sites Official Website
  • Sensitive Content & Trigger Warnings Racism Slavery
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created October 22, 2026 by
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  • Modified October 22, 2026 by
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