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linton kwesijohnson, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. so you were 11 when you came over from jamaica in 1963 tojoin your mother, who was already working here. how formative was that experience for you? it was a bit of a shock when i arrived. it wasn't what i had expected. in my childhood imagination, you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. so it took a bit of getting used to. but when you're young, it's easier to adjust to a new environm...

britain? linton kwesijohnson, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. so you were 11 when you came overfrom jamaica in 1963 tojoin your mother, who was already working here. how formative was that experience for you? it was a bit of a shock when i arrived. it wasn't what i had expected. in my childhood imagination, you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. so it took a bit of getting used to. but when you're young, it's easier to adjust to a new ...

president biden to shoot down another high altitude object. this one near lake huron. we'll have much more on "cnn this morning" starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern. i'm paula reed. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com blng detroit's the city of champions. the whole world knows that detroit is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living. and only in michigan will you find the men and women whose talent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and the economic pacesetter in peacetime. ♪ ♪ this musical world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my sh...

it's friday the 9th of september. you're watching a special edition of bbc news following the death of her majesty the queen. britain's longest—serving monarch passed away yesterday, aged 96, at balmoral castle — the scottish retreat which her majesty had visited since she was a girl. gun salutes and church bells will ring out across the uk today as the country begins to mourn. the new king — charles iii — will address the nation this evening. on today's programme we'll be remembering her majesty's life and legacy, and speaking to those who knew and loved her. we'll bring vie...

Of identity to write in the jamaican patois? in wanting to write verse, i reached a stage where i decided that an important criteria has to be authenticity of voice. so rather than an affectation of, you know, the canon of english poetry, i would write in the everyday spoken language that i was used to. and i was influenced in that way of thinking by the caribbean artists movement, which was founded by some remarkable west indian intellectuals — the historian kamau brathwaite, the poet and publisherjohn la rose, the jamaican broadcaster and novelist andrew salkey. and they were all about aut...