Adrian Lester
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494 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And wherever we'd moved out to, the families would come back together and eat together on a Sunday.
Yes.
What kind of thing?
It was all, you know, ground provision, which is what's provided to you from the ground.
Root vegetables and so on, sweet potato yams and so on.
And then you had plantain.
It was basically what you could find from home, from Jamaica, brought to a table in Birmingham.
And...
I remember being in the kitchen being very, very young and watching my mum get told what to do in the kitchen.
And I remember thinking, this is the dynamic.
And even now I think about it, I think it's a really good dynamic to see, is to see your mum being a daughter, to see your dad being a son, and to see them respectfully nod and say, yes, yes, papa.
And yes, mummy, to someone who's older than them.
Because you then say yes, mummy, to her.
And so she's saying yes, mummy, to someone older.
And did you speak with a Jamaican patois?
I didn't, no.
But they did between themselves?
Yeah, my grandparents definitely did.
They spoke patois in the house.
And then my parents' age, there was a hybrid mix.
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