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World Service,22 May 2023,23 mins

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Struggles of the past and present

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Zeinab Badawi speaks to Jamaican-born British poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, who blended his creative talent with music to produce some of poetry's most innovative recordings.. He has written about the difficulties his generation experienced with racism, but how relevant is his work today on the issues that are facing a changing Britain?

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