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Jamaican poet James Berry came to Britain 60 years ago as part of the Windrush generation. He talks about the process of rethinking the idea of Britishness he had absorbed as a child of Empire and his subsequent efforts to bring Caribbean culture to bear on Britishness through literature.

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Mon 18 Aug 2008 23:00

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