Adrian Lester
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494 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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Oh, St Mary.
Lovely.
St Mary.
I've been back.
There's a place called 42 in St Mary.
I don't know why it's called 42, but it's like a little area around a river with a shop and facilities and things.
And so the guys came over, he got to know France, and so they did the thing of, they would work, they would share a room, pool their money together, and they would actually all save their money as a group until they could make a cash deposit on a house.
What work was he doing?
He's a trained tailor but of course in those days coming over as an immigrant you couldn't get the job that you were trained to do.
So I think he worked cabling in a television company and he worked on the buses as well and he did a number of jobs before he managed to settle down and do the job that brought his kids over and his wife over and you know then the kids that his kids had you know me my generation.
And it's a typical Windrush immigrant story of the country inviting people in and saying, we need your help to rebuild and we need your help.
And then people came and then the reception they got on the ground was completely different.
This area is failing because of you lot and you can't do this and you can't do that.
And so you couldn't do the jobs that you were trained to do.
There was even a there was a bus boycott because there was a rule, the colour bar, where no black person could be employed.
in a position that was over a white worker.
Really?
In England?
In the 1950s?
Yes, that's it.
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