The Lonely Londoners (Omnibus)

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The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon (Omnibus)

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The Lonely Londoners

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Don Warrington reads Sam Selvon's 1950's classic of immigrant life in London.

A ten-year-long city dweller from the Caribbean goes to meet another boat train of hopeful new arrivals. Read by Don Warrington.

Sam Selvon's rich and touching 1956 novel about the lives of a group of Caribbean immigrants in London.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths.

Read by Don Warrington.

Moses Aloetta, an old hand who has lived in London for ten years, goes to Waterloo station to meet another boat train of hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies.

They've come to find work and wealth in the capital of the mother country, but they meet with a cold welcome and bitter weather.

Despite this, Moses and his friends of the Windrush generation go about making new lives for themselves with vigour and panache, navigating the rules and regulations of their new home, lending support to each other when needed, learning to survive; it's not long before, as Moses puts it “the boys coming and going, working, eating, sleeping, going about the vast metropolis like veteran Londoners.”

Producer:  Sara Davies

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

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