Heart and Soul: Windrush at 75
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Prof. Robert Beckford interviews Barbara Blake-Hannah the UK’s first black news reporter who returned to Jamaica after just eight years after coming over as part of the Windrush generation. She talks about how racism lead her to embrace the Rastafari faith and what it means to her.
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| 0:27.0 | I'm at London Waterloo Station and in front of me is a statue of a Caribbean family, husband, wife and child. |
| 0:34.0 | And they're hand in hand looking forward to the future facing it together. |
| 0:40.0 | This statue was unveiled here in London to commemorate the Windrush Generation. |
| 0:45.0 | They were the people like my mum and dad who were called by Britain from Caribbean countries to come and help rebuild the country after the Second World War. |
| 0:55.0 | The ship the first people came in was the Empire Windrush and that's how they got their name as the Windrush Generation. |
| 1:02.0 | It's the 75th anniversary of when that ship docked in the UK. |
| 1:07.0 | Looking at the statue, I can't help but feel emotional but also a sense of pride for what they've achieved. |
| 1:14.0 | This is the documentary on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Professor Robert Beckford. |
| 1:24.0 | In this episode of Heart and Soul, which explores personal stories of spirituality, I'm going to be making the reverse journey that my parents and the rest of the Windrush Generation did. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm returning to Jamaica to meet someone who came here to Britain as part of the Caribbean migration but found a new faith in Rastafari, |
| 1:43.0 | which compelled them to return back to Jamaica. |
| 1:52.0 | This was a very important port, very important street in Jamaica. |
| 1:57.0 | It has been refurbished. The National Gallery is just over there. You must go and visit while you're here. |
| 2:03.0 | It's a whole revitalizing of the waterfront of Kingston that's happening here. |
| 2:10.0 | That's where we are. We're by the waterfront in downtown Kingston. It's another beautiful day. |
| 2:15.0 | This area has been dramatically transformed. It's been regenerated. There's a lot of investment. |
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