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Caribbean Links

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A series of six programmes in which Caribbeans in Britain talk about their continuing links with the places from which they have come. 1: Guyana
'Ladies and gentlemen, there are some of you who do not know what the West Indies are all about. All you know is plenty of bananas, coconuts, we play cricket, we have fast bowlers....'
This challenge from a Hyde
Park Corner soapbox is taken up by Juliet Alexander , whose birthplace is a Caribbean state as far from Jamaica as Britain is from Russia, where over half the people are of South Asian descent, where cities of canals and bicycles were founded by the Dutch, and which isn't even an island.
Producer JOAN GRIFFITHS
Book, £1.50, from [address removed]& HELPLINES: page 87

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Unknown:
Juliet Alexander
Producer:
Joan Griffiths

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