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Tracing Your Roots

Factual: Families & Relationships

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Series exploring the practice of researching family history

Series exploring the practice of researching family history, one of the UK's most rapidly growing pastimes

Tracing Your Roots: Series 5

Tracing Your Roots: Series 5: Episode 4: Caribbean Roots

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Episode 4: Caribbean Roots

Series 5

Caribbean Roots

BBC Radio 4 - Tracing Your Roots, Series 5, Caribbean Roots

Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt help listeners investigate their Caribbean roots.

Sally Magnusson helps listeners trace their family Caribbean roots and hears the emotional story of one woman who travelled the world in search of where she came from.

October is Black History Month and this week Tracing Your Roots hears from listeners with family ties to the Caribbean. We follow Monica Brown, whose family come from Jamaica, as she makes an emotional trip to Zanzibar, visiting the underground chamber where slaves - including, she believes, her ancestors - were kept in horrific conditions before being sold. She wants to know more about her east African heritage.

Rosemarie Barnes also has slavery on her family tree, or so she thinks. Her great great great grandfather (who lived in Essex in the mid-nineteenth century) shares the name of a man who appears on the Jamaican slave register. Were they one and the same person? And if so, how did Edward Andrews get to England?

Soldiers from the Caribbean played their part in World War One, but how were they treated in comparison with their white counterparts? And were false promises made to them to induce them to head for Europe? Valerie Vaughan-Dick and Sheena Simpson ask what their ancestors did in the war, and what greeted them on their return home.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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Sally Magnusson presents a series exploring the practice of researching family history

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