10 things you might not know about the Windrush
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
To mark Windrush Day 2022, our resident history teacher Miss Patel is back for a lesson all about the Windrush Generation.
In this lesson Greg and Bella will hear about the reality of life in post-war Britain and the Caribbean; the British recruitment campaigns that encouraged people to book their passage on boats like the Windrush; and they'll hear about the ship itself and it's surprising history. Miss Patel will talk about the passengers who boarded the Windrush itself - including a stowaway - and the welcome that they found once they arrived at Tillbury Docks on the 22nd June 1948. We'll hear the challenges they faced, and the amazing women who ought to be as well known as Rosa Parks, including Olive Morris, Altheia Jones-LeCointe and Paulette Wilson.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:07.5 | what's so important about the 22nd of June? |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Greg James, I'm Bella Mackie, and welcome to term three of Teach Me a Lesser. of the UK to teach us their favourite lesson. |
| 0:23.0 | This time we're opening the doors of the BBC Sounds Classroom once again to a whole new |
| 0:27.4 | roster of brilliant teachers and also we're welcoming some of our favourite teachers back. |
| 0:32.4 | She's box office. |
| 0:33.6 | She's an absolute pro. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, this is like Garlet Yihanssen, it's The Rock, it's Paul Rudd, it's |
| 0:41.8 | box office. |
| 0:44.0 | Paul Rood, are we saying Paul Rood? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm good with Paul Rood. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, fine. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm good with that. We'd all be good before run. |
| 0:57.0 | We'd all be good with Paul Run. |
| 0:59.0 | Um, Ryan Reynolds. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 1:01.0 | Margot Robbie. |
| 1:02.0 | We get it. We get the idea. She's an a lifter. |
| 1:03.4 | It's Miss Patel from Claire Monter High School in northwest London. |
| 1:07.1 | Miss Patel, welcome back. |
| 1:08.7 | Hello, Greg and Bella. |
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