Caribbean Connections - patois

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Background

This conversation is from Caribbean Connections, a series of radio programmes broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1984. The interviewees describe the origins and poetry of Caribbean patois or dialect.

The interviewees are:

The Hon. Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly (Miss Lou) a Jamaican folklorist, writer and patois poet

Linton Kwesi Johnson a dub and performance poet, activist and musician

Vince Herbert a television and radio presenter