The Carnival: 50 Years in St Pauls
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you walk down grove the road and listen carefully, you can hear St Paul's carnival story. |
| 0:06.0 | You can see Rory and his states creating a legacy. |
| 0:09.0 | You see happy rainbow children and costumes and reggae sound systems celebrating diversity. |
| 0:14.0 | You smell tasty scrumptious Caribbean delicacies. |
| 0:17.0 | You feel the passion over the years and feel the love and unity. |
| 0:21.0 | Fifty years of the longest running Afro Caribbean party. |
| 0:24.0 | But the question if they'd be an anniversary. |
| 0:31.0 | Because the streets would tell the full story. |
| 0:33.0 | Let's speak about political controversy. |
| 0:35.0 | They'd gossip about times with this unity. |
| 0:37.0 | What's what you've done so now? |
| 0:39.0 | It's not right. |
| 0:40.0 | The whispered disapprovingly of a few times it was cancelled abruptly. |
| 0:43.0 | You're lying. |
| 0:44.0 | And it's whoever you institable to deliver our own event. |
| 0:48.0 | The bricks of Campbell Street would remind us of its legacy. |
| 0:51.0 | The most popular win-wrestth gift of positivity for the whole city. |
| 1:01.0 | The arrival of more than 400 happy Jamaicans. |
| 1:05.0 | They've come to seek work in Britain. |
| 1:07.0 | And are ready and willing to do any kind of job that will help the motherland along the road to prosperity. |
| 1:12.0 | They're all full of hope for the future. |
| 1:14.0 | So let's make them very welcome as they begin their new life over here. |
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