Sir Lenny Henry

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1,588 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 24 Jun

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And she wrote my dad, Winston, a letter.

And it said, dear Winston, when you come over, you're going to find things are happening.

And if you feel bad about it, you can stay where you are in Jamaica and I'll just carry on here and everything will be fine.

But I'm having a baby.

Obviously, it's not yours unless you did it by telegram or something.

And I'm going to keep it and I want to keep it.

And if you don't want to be married to me, that's fine.

Because in the 50s, remember, people didn't get divorced, right?

Mm-hmm.

Nobody got divorced.

And Winston wrote back and said, I forgive you, let's make it work.

And when he got here, he hadn't quite forgiven it yet, which is what all the rows were about.

And then eventually they began to make a go of it.

Albert didn't really raise me.

Well, Winston raised me.

I mean, he was, despite the fact that I wasn't his kid by birth, he raised me.

So I was used to seeing, you know, even though he was a grumpy bastard, I was used to him.

And then when I was about 11, I met Albert for the first time.

Although I'd seen him around.

No, no, well, he did, yeah, but I'd seen him around, and this is what happened.

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