Linton Kwesi Johnson

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

"My generation, which was the rebel generation of black youth, has changed England and in changing England we've changed ourselves" - the words of Linton Kwesi Johnson - the man who invented dub poetry and used it to chronicle some of the key events of black British history, from the celebrated case of George Lindo, wrongly accused of robbery in Bradford in 1978, to the New Cross Fire and Brixton riots a few years later. Philip Dodd talks to him about the roots of his poetry, his love of music and the way he thinks Britain and black Britons have changed since 1963 when he arrived in London from Jamaica as an eleven year old boy.

Producer: Zahid Warley

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