Dread Beat and Blood - ACE065.6

Early morning in Brixton. Granvill Arcade opening up, shopkeepers and stall-holders preparing for the day ahead, etc. Radio news broadcast over. Johnson walking to Tulse Hill School. VO talking about his schooling in London, and about the assumptions that were made about black children and their capabilities. Despite having passed the Jamaican equivalent of the Eleven Plus, Johnson says he was put automatically into a low stream and had to fight to get the right education. Johnson in classroom reading poem, Heavy heavy terror on the rampage…the violence damming up inside to pupils. Discussion after the reading on the themes in his poetry and on being a poet.