Brother From Another Planet - The Sun Ra Story, BBC4, BBC2
Don Letts directed this beautiful and hilarious film about one of the truly great eccentric geniuses of music – Sun Ra. It was the third documentary we’ve made for the BBC series Originals – previously we profiled Robert Wyatt and Gil Scott-Heron.
Jez Nelson – who produced the programme – has had a long fascination with Ra since meeting him in 1990.
We’re currently in production with the next in the Originals series – a film about P-Funk legend George Clinton.
The show was broadcast on Friday October 28, 2005 at 9pm on BBC4.
