The Windrush generation

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Historian, author and broadcaster Colin Grant discusses his recent book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, which tells the stories of postwar immigrants to Britain from the Caribbean. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
0:50.5	I'm Ellie Cawthorne.
0:56.2	On today's podcast, we've got a conversation with the author and cultural historian Colin Grant.
1:02.3	Colin's latest book is Homecoming, Voices of the Windrish Generation,
1:07.0	which explores the experiences of West Indian immigrants arriving in Britain in the 1940s.
1:12.9	Charlotte Hodgman, editor of BBC History Revealed magazine, met Colin to find out more.
1:18.8	Please be aware that this episode does contain offensive language as part of the discussion about historical racism.
1:25.5	Colin, thank you for coming to chat to us in Bristol today.
1:29.5	Probably the best way to start might be to talk about why you wanted to write the book,
1:35.9	where that idea came from.
1:38.0	My parents are Jamaican.
1:39.8	They came here in 1959 from the capital, Kingston.
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