[4] He travelled to Britain as a 22-year-old in 1959,[5] having represented his country as a musician the previous year in the Bee Wee Ballet Dance Troupe at the inauguration of the Federation of the West Indies.
[5] Prominent guests on the programme from the worlds of politics, sport, literature and the arts included Muhammad Ali,[12] Alex Haley, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, C. L. R. James, Maurice Bishop, Michael Jackson, Arthur Ashe, Althea McNish, Mustapha Matura, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leon Britton MP, Angela Davis, Miriam Makeba and the Mighty Sparrow.
[16] In 1994, Pascall presented A Different Rhythm, an eight-part BBC Radio 3 series produced by Clayton and Nick Hughes, on the impact of the black presence on British music and musicians.
[2][23][30] In 1986, Pascall was appointed the National Coordinator for "Caribbean Focus 86",[31] a festival of arts and culture, in association with the Commonwealth Institute in London and CARICOM governments.
[36] Pascall is also a playwright, oral historian and cultural strategist, teaching, performing and promoting Caribbean music and history to people of all ages in schools, universities, libraries and communities.
He has written and documented material to respond to the need to make Caribbean folk arts widely accessible and holds a large historical archive spanning over five decades of Black presence in Britain.
"[37] His play Common Threads,[38] set within a plantation on the island of Grenada and Big Pit Colliery in South Wales, revolves around the history of the sugar and coal industries and was first presented in 2001 by Gwent Theatre.