The big picture on Windrush

PORTRAITS OF A GENERATION | BBC2, 7.45pm

MARKING the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush to British shores in 1948, this documentary follows a remarkable project spearheaded by His Majesty the King.

King Charles has commissioned 10 leading artists, from Britain and abroad, to create portraits of 10 pioneering members of the Windrush generation. "It's an acknowledgement of our history," says Sir Geoff Palmer, 83, Scotland's first Black professor who has been painted by Derek Fordjour.

He adds: "It was a great privilege but I was immediately thinking of the wider family and the whole Windrush generation."