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(Presenter) It's 1947 in the capital city of Wales, Cardiff, which was, and still is, the largest Negro district in the United Kingdom with Negro residents now numbered at about 8000. |
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(Waitress) Do you want to order something while you're waiting for your friend? |
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Hi, yes, can I get an orange juice please {waitress goes to leave} and sorry, a whisky? |
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(Waitress) No worries. |
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(Waitress) No worries. |
(0, 1) 18 |
Gwawr? |
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(Gwawr) Tony. |
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(Gwawr) No, don't hug me ─ social distancing, and all that. |
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Ok. |
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(0, 1) 23 |
Please, sit, do you want something to drink? |
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(Gwawr) Yes. |
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(Gwawr) /Pinot please, thank you. |
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So, how are you? |
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(Gwawr) Oh, yeah, um, I'm fine. |
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(Gwawr) How are you? |
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I'm like Hopalong Cassidy today |
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(Gwawr) What? |
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(Gwawr) What? |
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You know Hopalong Cassidy? |
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(Gwawr) No. |
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(Gwawr) No. |
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He's a man from the black and white cowboy era. |
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(Waitress) Here you go, will you guys be ordering any food? |
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(Waitress) Ok, well let me know if you need anything. |
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You like a sip of wine then. |
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(Gwawr) Hmm? |
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(Gwawr) Hmm? |
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You like a sip of wine. |
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(Gwawr) White wine. |
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(Gwawr) White wine. |
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I remember your Mum did. |
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Are you sure you're not hungry? |
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You don't want anything to eat? |
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(Gwawr) No, I'm fine, honestly. |
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(Gwawr) No, I'm fine, honestly. |
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So good to see you smiling, I just didn't expect... |
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What is it that spurred you? |
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(Gwawr) Well um/ |
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(Gwawr) And your parents were already here? |
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Yeah, they were, they met me at the port. |
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(Gwawr) Who brought you up in Jamaica? |
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(Gwawr) Who brought you up in Jamaica? |
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My grandmother, and my grandad, but mainly my grandmother. |
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(Gwawr) What about your parents? |
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(Gwawr) What about your parents? |
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They moved here when I was 18 months old. |
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(Gwawr) {Said with a lack of empathy.} |
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(Gwawr) That must have been hard. |
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My grandmother said to my parents: you can go to Wales if you want, but this boy will grow up Jamaican. |
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How's your mother? |
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(Gwawr) She's fine, thank you. |
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(Gwawr) Yeah you did upset me. |
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That's not what I intended. |
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I am so glad of the heart you have right now, and I love you so much |
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(Gwawr) Your grandmother, what did she do? |
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(Waitress) So whisky and orange juice and a large pinot? |
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That would be lovely thank you. |
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(Gwawr) As if ─ I thought that was just orange juice. |
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(Gwawr) As if ─ I thought that was just orange juice. |
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I wasn't trying to deceive you. |
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(Gwawr) Sure. |
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(Gwawr) Have you got a family tree or anything I can have a look at? |
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How far back? |
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(Gwawr) Well, I don't know. |
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(Gwawr) Well, I don't know. |
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We'll explore it together. |
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(Gwawr) {Uncertain.} |
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(Gwawr) Ok |
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I can't tell you how happy I am. |
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You probably were very angry at me for a long time, wrote me off. |
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(Gwawr) Um... |
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(Gwawr) Yeah, absolutely. |
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Naturally. |
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(Gwawr) Yeah, naturally. |
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(Gwawr) Yeah, naturally. |
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There's not a day that goes by when I don't think about you, not a single one. |
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(Gwawr) That's not true. |
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(Gwawr) Don't worry we won't be that long. |
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Gwawr/ |
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(Gwawr) /What? |
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(Gwawr) /What? |
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What have I said? |
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(Gwawr) How can not one day go by without you thinking of me but it takes me to reach out to speak to you. |
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(Gwawr) How can not one day go by without you thinking of me but it takes me to reach out to speak to you. |
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Well I did reach out/ |
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(Gwawr) /To tell me about you, to make shit excuses. |
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(Gwawr) /To tell me about you, to make shit excuses. |
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But I want you in my life, I want to get to know you. |
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(Gwawr) You can't pop in and out when you like. |
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(Gwawr) You can't have me. |
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They're not excuses, it's the truth. |
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You're just like your mother. |
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(Gwawr) Ha, there you are, there's the truth/ |
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(Gwawr) Ha, there you are, there's the truth/ |
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No sorry, I didn't mean/ |
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(Gwawr) So you're not sorry that you upset me? |
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(Gwawr) So you're not sorry that you upset me? |
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That's all I said, is that it was, it's not my fault that you were born, it was your mother's. |
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(Gwawr) So if it was up to you I wouldn't even be here now? |
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(Gwawr) I would've never existed? |
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Yes. |
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(Presenter) It's 1947 in the capital city of Wales, Cardiff, which was, and still is, the largest Negro district in the United Kingdom. |
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(Gwawr) Sorry, I'm going to go. |
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Well can we do this again? |
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(Gwawr) No. |
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(Gwawr) No. |
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Gwawr? |