Posted: Sun Jun 05, 05 10:44 am Post subject: Plain Tales from the Commonwealth
Radio 4 Monday 11:00 Plain Tales from the Commonwealth
From 1947 through to the 1960s, in country after country, the Union Jack was hauled down for the last time. Thousands of Britons who had run the empire returned home. But not all. In the first of a new series, Aidan Hartley finds out what happened to those Britons who stayed on in the newly-independent countries.
1/4. My Land Is Kenya
Aidan starts with the white farmers of Kenya, who in colonial days were given the prime agricultural land, and who were famous for their dissolute and promiscuous lifestyles. After independence, they were required to move to more distant, less fertile ground.
Why did they stay? Have they become true Kenyans or do they still look to Britain for their identity?
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