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The Documentary Podcast

The Carnival: 50 Years in St Pauls

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Narrated by Bristol’s first poet laureate Miles Chambers, from costumes to sound systems this tale looks at the history of the St Pauls Carnival, meets the family of four generations who all have a stake in it, and follows the new organisation grappling to appease a fractured community in order to put this year’s event on. Failure to do so “will spell the end of carnival forever.”

Transcript

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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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