Great Lives: Ruth Rogers

The chef and co-founder of The River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, picks the life of the writer and activist James Baldwin. A writer, poet, playwright and activist, Baldwin was known as a trailblazing explorer of race, class and sexuality in America and the "literary voice of the Civil Rights movement". Joining Ruth and presenter Matthew Parris is Professor Rich Blint from the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts in New York, director of the college's race and ethnicity programme and a contributing editor to the James Baldwin Review