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Harry was a bolshie
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Last month, Jano Williams was lying in bed listening to Home Truths when all of a sudden she heard the song, Harry was a Bolshie. This caused her a huge amount of excitement, because it was her mother who wrote it.
The song, about Harry Pollitt, was written in 1935 when Elin Williams was an active communist. She wasn't keen to publicise her authorship because she thought being flippant about the Chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain wouldn't go down too well with her comrades.
Elin is now 93. Jano tells Michael Rosen that her mother has continued to be a creative individual all her life.
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