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It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

And because the team has such a diverse

range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through

archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if

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Hello, I'm Lorna Goodison. I'm a poet and writer. I've lived in different parts of the world,

but I was born and raised in Jamaica. I remember the first time I ever heard Redemption song.

It was very early in the morning, and I was nursing my son, Miles, and I said to my son,

Miles, I think Bob is going to go now, for it sounded like he'd send a band of Wales home,

and he was just keeping his own company with that box guitar.

Jamaicans always speak about

you're traveling

when you're moving between life and death.

You had begun to travel, as they see.

Going and saying goodbye,

and not just saying goodbye,

but he was charging us to continue

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