“… and that’s how I got to be here … in custody.”

And that’s the Windrush scandal, written by and starring Sir Lenny Henry at the Bush Theatre.

A huge snake extends across the wall. Pleasingly colourful. But look closer. There’s another element: the serpent is made of scores of life vests.

“Let’s take this show off the grid”, says Lydia West as a signal for the Barbican Centre lights to switch off and for 10 on-stage cyclists to start cranking up the power.

Why help farmers with seeds, or build wells, or encourage women to join co-ops? If you want to help the poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America, give them cash.

Have you heard the one about the woman who goes into a bookshop to report that a book about a slave trade mass murder is in the wrong place?

Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines played a deadly role in the 1984 Rwandan genocide and its call to kill has become emblematic for hate speech.

Chinese-Canadian-British playwright Joanne Lau has the last laugh in her comedy drama, Worth.

When Francis returns to his remote island home from a spell in South Africa he declares that he has brought a surprise from the outside world.

A nine-year-old boy is captured by a murderous militia and made to watch and later commit gruesome murders. As a child and later a commanding member of the gang he commits atrocious murders, torture, rapes. Should he be treated as a victim or a perpetrator?

A tower of 700 captured chainsaws is one of the most striking images in Delikado, a documentary about a group of environmental defenders in The Philippines.

Koromousso: Big Sister is a documentary about female genital mutilation - and it’s heartwarming.

Twenty-six years after he unsuccessfully headed from Nigeria to Europe, Ike Nnaebue set off again, this time to talk to West African emigrants still lured by the vision of a better life on another continent.

I don’t like K-pop, which is too corporate, calculated and soul-less for my taste. But I was fascinated by Hallyu! The Korean Wave, the V&A’s latest blockbuster.

The facts are brutal, the performance is a dramatic meditation.

‘How Not To Drown’ looks as though it will be another perilous tale of a young migrant making his way by truck and boat to Britain, but it morphs into a heartbreaking critique of our fostering system.

On The Ropes ”tells a story that is fundamentally important to all British people in understanding what it means to be British, particularly in the context of the ongoing debate about immigration”.

Cotton: labour, land and body tries to squeeze centuries of colonial “economic violence”, exploitation, impoverishment and South Asian migration into a single room at the Crafts Council in London.

Grief, death, illness, disability, suffering, loss: Sons Of The Prophet is a Christmas comedy.

Writer and actor Jasmine Naziha Jones grows up a second time in her debut play, Baghdaddy.

The growing Chinese population in the UK exceeds 400,000. How much do you know about their lives here?