This is the Guardian.

Today, how the Windrush generation shaped British culture.

We didn't have a television until 1972 when I was 11 years old

and our television was the Caribbean people around us.

Luton was a migrant to town.

There were South Asian people, there were Irish people,

and there were Caribbean people.

And mostly we were in amidst the Caribbean people.

When the author Colin Grant was growing up in Luton,

he didn't think too much about what his parents, Eiffelon and Bagai,

had left behind on their journey from Jamaica to Britain.

I was surrounded by these really entertaining characters

who made you want to be like them.

And I used to practice the Jamaica walk,

which was just faster than slow.

I couldn't picture what Jamaica was.

It was a far off magical mystical place as far as I can send.

And so these people who were close to my phone

they were kind of proxy for the Caribbean.

But after leaving medical school and then quitting a career at the BBC,

Grant has gone on to write books about some of Jamaica's most significant heroes

from Marcus Garvey to Bob Marley,

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