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By Gary Younge. Despite having only spent four days there, 'home' was Barbados for Gary.

Despite only six weeks spent there aged four, Gary always said home was Barbados - not Stevenage. Read by David Harewood.

Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in Britain.

'Stevenage 1/2' by Gary Younge. Read by David Harewood.

This selection of original non-fiction is taken from Granta magazine's volume 'Britain'.

Gary Younge was brought up in Stevenage, a place which even his fellow residents were hard pushed to locate on a map. It was an engineered community but one in which he and his brothers and their single parent mum participated in whole-heartedly. Nonetheless despite having only spent six weeks there as a four year old, whenever he was asked where he was from, 'home' was Barbados.


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Four writers explore their sense of identity, what it feels like to be at home in Britain

Four writers create a personal portrait, exploring their sense of identity and what it feels like to be at home in Britain

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