 At the BBC, he also helped write the production "My People and Your People" with D. G. Bridson, a radio play about a love affair between a West Indian migrant and a Scottish skiffle player.Salkey was a part of the West Indian Students Union (WISU), which provided an effective forum for Caribbean students to express their ideas and provided voluntary support to the "harassed" working-class Caribbean immigrant community, during the 1960s, '70s and '80s.The association also included Gerry Burton, Arif Ali, Chris LeMaitre, John La Rose and Horace Lashley.