‘Most stations wouldn’t play half our playlist’: 15 years of 1Xtra

When the BBC launched 1Xtra in 2002, it was in thrall to US hip-hop and R&B – but emboldened by grime, the station became woven into black BritainBack in 2002, the cover line of black-music magazine RWD announced to a new generation of radio listeners: “1Xtra: Femme Fatale … Read entire story.

Source: Music | The Guardian