Georgia Banjo
speaker
398 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Georgia Banjo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Every English town has a thing it was once the best in the world at
Lutons was hats.
For the better part of two centuries, it was one of the hat making capitals of the world.
Baiters and bonnets woven from straw from the surrounding Shire.
Leeton is the biggest town in Bedfordshire.
A typical English county.
It didn't just have hat making.
It had car making tea.
Across the town square, a stone's throw from the old hat making district, and right by where the protests erupted in two thousand nine.
I meet Councillor Aslam Khan.
Together, these two industries were the engine of Luton's transformation.
Because long before Robinson was born, the tectonic plates of this town were already shifting.
After the Second World War.
Britain went looking for workers across its former empire.
Britain had partitioned India in nineteen forty seven.
The new border cut straight through the rivers, and to replace the water it lost, Pakistan built a dam that put entire towns underwater.
And a hundred thousand people out of their homes.
Many were given work vouchers, a fast track to Britain.
Many went to Luton, with its factories, steady wages, and overtime.
Over the decades, families arrived.
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