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Caribbean Voices, the Glossary

Caribbean Voices was a radio programme broadcast by the BBC World Service from Bush House in London, England, between 1943 and 1958.^[1]

A. L. Hendriks

Arthur Lemière Hendriks (1922–1992) was a Jamaican poet, writer, and broadcasting director (known as Micky Hendriks in his broadcasting career).

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Alison Donnell

Alison Donnell is an academic, originally from the United Kingdom.

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Andrew Salkey

Andrew Salkey (30 January 1928 – 28 April 1995) was a Jamaican novelist, poet, children's books writer and journalist of Jamaican and Panamanian origin.

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BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.

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Brunel University London

Brunel University London (BUL, and often known simply as Brunel) is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England.

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Bush House

Bush House is a Grade II listed building at the southern end of Kingsway between Aldwych and the Strand in London, England.

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Caribbean Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies on the culture of the Caribbean, with its content comprising scholarly articles, essays, criticism, creative writing and book reviews.

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Colin Grant (born 1961, Hitchin, England) is a British writer of Jamaican origin, who is the author of several books, including a 2008 biography of Marcus Garvey entitled Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and His Dream of Mother Africa and a 2012 memoir, Bageye at the Wheel.

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David Dabydeen

David Dabydeen FRSL (born 9 December 1955) is a Guyanese-born broadcaster, novelist, poet and academic.

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Derek Walcott

Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.

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E. M. Roach

Eric Merton Roach (3 November 1915 – 18 April 1974) was a Tobagonian poet and playwright.

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Edgar Mittelholzer

Edgar Austin Mittelholzer (16 December 1909 – 6 May 1965) was a Guyanese novelist.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Geoffrey Drayton

Geoffrey Drayton (13 February 1924 – 2017) was a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist.

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George Lamming

George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet.

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Gloria Escoffery

Gloria Escoffery OD (22 December 1923 – 24 April 2002) was a Jamaican painter, poet and art critic that contributed to post-colonial arts and culture during the mid-to-late 20th century.

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Henry Swanzy

Henry Swanzy (14 June 1915 – 19 March 2004) was an Anglo-Irish radio producer in Britain's BBC General Overseas Service who is best known for his role in promoting West Indian literature particularly through the programme Caribbean Voices, where in 1946 he took over from Una Marson, the programme's first producer.

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Ian McDonald (Guyanese writer)

Ian McDonald (born 18 April 1933) is a Caribbean-born poet and writer who describes himself as "Antiguan by ancestry, Trinidadian by birth, Guyanese by adoption, and West Indian by conviction." His ancestry on his father's side is Antiguan and Kittitian, and Trinidadian on his mother's side.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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John Figueroa

John Joseph Maria Figueroa (4 August 1920 – 5 March 1999) was a Jamaican poet and educator.

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Kamau Brathwaite

Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020), was a Barbadian poet and academic, widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. Caribbean Voices and Kamau Brathwaite are Barbados in World War II.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louise Bennett-Coverley

Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.

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Marina Salandy-Brown

Marina Salandy-Brown FRSA, Hon.

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Michael Anthony (author)

Michael Anthony HBM (10 February 1930 – 24 August 2023) was a Trinidadian author and historian, who was named by CNC3 as one of the "50 most influential people in Trinidad and Tobago".

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Neville Dawes

Neville Dawes (16 June 1926 – 13 May 1984) was a novelist and poet born in Nigeria of Jamaican parentage.

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New Beacon Books

New Beacon Books is a British publishing house, bookshop, and international book service that specializes in Black British, Caribbean, African, African-American and Asian literature.

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Peepal Tree Press

Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books.

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Sam Selvon

Samuel Selvon (20 May 1923 – 16 April 1994), Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Shake Keane

Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927 – 11 November 1997) was a Vincentian jazz musician and poet.

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Small Axe Project

The Small Axe Project is an integrated publication undertaking devoted to Caribbean intellectual and artistic work, exercised over three platforms—Small Axe; sx salon, and sx visualities—each with a different structure, medium, and practice.

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Stabroek News

The Stabroek News is a privately owned newspaper published in Guyana.

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Sylvia Wynter

Sylvia Wynter, O.J. (Holguín, Cuba, 11 May 1928) is a Jamaican novelist,1 dramatist,2 critic, philosopher, and essayist.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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Una Marson

Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.

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Wasafiri

Wasafiri is a quarterly British literary magazine covering international contemporary writing. Founded in 1984, the magazine derives its name from a Swahili word meaning "travellers" that is etymologically linked with the Arabic word "safari". The magazine holds that many of those who created the literatures in which it is particularly interested "...have all in some sense been cultural travellers either through migration, transportation or else, in the more metaphorical sense of seeking an imagined cultural 'home'." Funded by the Arts Council England, Wasafiri is "a journal of post-colonial literature that pays attention to the wealth of Black and diasporic writers worldwide.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Voices

Also known as Calling the West Indies.

Caribbean Voices, the Glossary

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See also

Antigua and Barbuda in World War II

Antigua and Barbuda literature

BBC World Service programmes

Barbadian literature

Barbados in World War II

British Guiana in World War II

British Leeward Islands in World War II

Caribbean-British culture

Culture of Anguilla

Culture of the British Virgin Islands

Dominica literature

Guyanese literature

Montserratian literature

Saint Kitts and Nevis literature

Trinidad and Tobago in World War II

Trinidad and Tobago literature

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