I Have a Dream
- Author Clive Myrie
- Narrator Clive Myrie
- Publisher BBC Audio
- Publish Date 8 January 2026
- Run Time 3 hours and 48 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre History of the Americas, Oral history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history.
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What to expect
Clive Myrie presents a powerful four-part series documenting the events leading up to, surrounding and following the assassination of Martin Luther King - told by the people who were there.
In 1968, Dr King was in Memphis to support a strike by the local sanitation workers, campaigning under the slogan "I Am A Man”. For the first time, those workers and their families tell their own stories, laying bare in often shocking detail the realities of the Civil Rights struggle in the Southern states of the US.
In this compelling documentary series, we hear first-hand of the daily humiliations of the Jim Crow South, of the hope that Dr King brought and of the fallout from his death. Presenter Clive Myrie takes us on a journey to better understand the mistakes, the triumphs and what that era means for Memphis today.
This immersive listen features testimony from a teacher arrested on a daily basis for attempting to break the colour bar in Memphis restaurants. We hear from a man who at six was the first black child in Memphis to attend a white school. A sanitation worker describes how he was beaten daily by police and too scared to go to hospital to have his wounds healed. Why did he strike? Because ‘they wouldn't treat me like a man’.
This oral history features the music that was the soundtrack to the struggle, from Booker T., Chuck Berry, Quincy Jones, Dinah Washington, B.B. King, Aretha Franklin and Jimi Hendrix.
Written and presented by Clive Myrie
First Broadcast BBC Radio 2, 28th March - 18th April 2018
©2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2025 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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