Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as we trace the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.
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Air Date: 2009-12-06
London 1948: Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. The women h...
Air Date: 2009-12-13
The emotional and moving climax to the stories of Hortense, Queenie and Gilbert whose lives entwine in post Second Wo...