The Black Spy Podcast

Season 2, episode 0007

'Windrush Special’

Britain as through the eyes of the 95 year old pioneers who made the journey to “Mother Country”

This week's special episode brings listeners another seldom heard and insightful view into a current event, with historical roots in the macro geo-political world of the age of empire.

This time the event being analysed through the eyes of the everyday citizens who experienced it, is the so called Windrush affair. In discussion with two 95 year olds and two somewhat younger, Carlton explores the mentality of colonialism, the lifestyle of the colonisers and that of the colonised. We hear the ladies recollections of their country, Barbados, in the 1930s, the apartheid system that had been in place under British rule for more that 300 years, the codification of race the island, with blacks being 2nd if not 3rd class citizens, the restrictions of class and the English centric colonial education system. The ladies speak of the effect of WW2 in the Caribbean and the take up of the call to arms within the Caribbean in general.

Later, the ladies speak of their arrival in Britain, the culture shock of seeing poor working class white people and the shock of realising that, as Barbadians, contrary to what they’d been taught all their lives, they were not British and not necessarily wanted. Interestingly the ladies seem to notice a difference between the welcome from Londoners and that obtained by those who settled in Northern England.

Listeners will be informed, no doubt enjoy, and frankly, be moved, by some of the recollections of this trip down memory lane by the nonagenarians.

In short, this is another Black Spy Podcast that is not to be forepassed.

This episode will be released on Monday 15th of November 2021

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