Barry Reckord obituary
Playwright whose work captured the conflicts of class and race in 1960s BritainBarry Reckord, who has died aged 85, was a pioneering playwright from the Caribbean with an under-explored legacy. A few days before his death, his award-winning play Skyvers, which was first produced at the Royal Court in London in 1963, was broadcast in a new BBC Radio 3 production championed by the actor and writer Kwame Kwei-Armah, who…