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When Colin Give was developing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. ‘We’re here because we’re here,’ his father would say. ‘You have some place else to go?’

But now, seventy years following the arrival of ships like the Windrush, this generation of pioneers will be ready to tell their tales.

Homecoming pulls on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the ladies and guys about Homecoming: Voices from the Windrush Era who came to Britain in the West Indies between your late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their very own words, we see the transition in the optimism of the first post-war arrivals to the competition riots from the past due 1950s. We listen to from nurses in Manchester; bus drivers in Bristol; seamstresses in Birmingham; teachers in Croydon; dockers in Cardiff; inter-racial enthusiasts in Large Wycombe, and Carnival Queens in Leeds. They are tales of wish and regret, of triumphs and difficulties, brimming with humour, anger and intelligence. Together, they reveal a wealthy tapestry of Caribbean United kingdom lives.

Homecoming can be an unforgettable family portrait of the generation, which brilliantly illuminates an important and much-misunderstood section of our background.

(c) 2019, Colin Grant (P) 2019 Penguin Audio