Henry Henry's Life and Times

Henry was 30 when he appeared on Desert Island Discs in 1989. In the show, he talks about his mum Winifred and dad Winston coming from Jamaica to the Midlands in the 1950s to take work in factories. He grew up to be a teenager with a knack for doing impressions. Henry then toured with a light entertainment troupe called The Black and White Minstrel Show through the summers of the late seventies. Or so went the glossed-over version of his biography that Henry gave out in 1989. While studying for a BA, MA, then a PhD in film and TV studies during the 2000s and 2010s, Henry did a lot of inner wrestling with his form