This is the first episode of the new podcast show called 'Is It Cos Im from Croydon' and it features one of the greatest writers ever, who happened to be a person of colour. 

Alexander Dumas wrote many, many, many novels, which contained some of the greatest adventure stories ever told. But his own life and career, as well as that of his father, a Napoleonic Soldier was even more eventful than his books. 

Sit, rest, have a cup of tea and listen to Mrs Check Out Your History aka as Mrs Classic Film Fan, tell the extraordinary true tale, of the life and career of one of the greatest novelists of the 19th Century, France ever produced. Alexander Dumas, the son of a Napoleonic soldier and the grandson of a black slave.