Melvyn Bragg presents a series surveying 1,000 years of spoken English as reflected in the dialects of Britain. 4: No Pigeon
This week a look at the streets of Brixton in south London to trace the routes of "London Jamaican", from its Caribbean pidgin origins to its celebration by the young- white, Asian and black. Celebrated dub poet Linton Kwesi joins Johnson Bragg in his Brixton local to talk about how the profile and respectability of Caribbean patois in Britain came to be raised. Producer Bella Bannerman. Repeated at9.30pm