Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

And all this week we are going to be looking back at events in Black British history since World War II.

We begin with a program from our archives about the arrival in Britain of the first immigrants

from the Caribbean.

Alan Johnson reports on the historic voyage of the SS Empire Windrush.

It is 1948 in Jamaica and the island is in bad shape.

It's still recovering from a hurricane a few years earlier, and Sam King remembers the economy being in a desperate state.

Things again were very bad because the coconuts were destroyed in 44.

It takes five to six years for the coconuts to rebuild.

The old structure of forming was undermined.

I didn't see any future. Of course my father was very glad I was

there because I'm the eldest son and like him eventually I would take over the

farm to pick the mentor and to plant banana and all that and all that.

But I had no intention of planting bananas.

Back then Sam was just 22 years old, but he'd already seen the outside world. He'd

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