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Episode 1

Kwame Kwei-Armah visits Bermuda, Jamaica and Tonga as he begins to retrace Queen Elizabeth's 1953 Commonwealth Tour. In Tonga he meets King George Tupou V, who was five at the time of the Queen's visit and remembers it well. As a self-proclaimed 'Child of Empire', whose parents came to the UK from the West Indies, Kwame examines not just the enduring significance of the tour for those in the Colonies, but the critical importance it played in shaping the multi-cultural country we live in today.

English
  • Originally Aired August 10, 2009
  • Runtime 50 minutes
  • Network Channel 4
  • Created September 6, 2009 by
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