1. Childhood

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Andrea Levy 's award-winning novel exploring empire, prejudice, war and love in Jamaica, England, America and India. The story of the Windrush Generation and the part they played in the Second World War and the prejudice they faced from the Mother Country are a little known aspect of recent British History. Small Island tells the story of four people caught up in this past; Hortense, Gilbert, Queenie and Bernard. Hortense's childhood is affected by the stigma of illegitimacy. In her young adult years she meets and falls in love with her cousin Michael. Dramatised in fifteen parts by Pat Cumper. Hortense ........ Nadine Marshall Michael ........ Javone Prince Young Hortense ........ Tyra McKenzie-Gray Young Michael........ Joel Davis Mr Philip ........ Burt Caesar Miss Ma ........ Adjoa Andoh Miss Jewel ........ Dona Croll Queenie ........ Lyndsey Marshal Gilbert ........ Don Gilet Mrs Ryder ........ Barbara Barnes Celia ........ Carla Henry Miss Morgan ........ Elizabeth Bell Celia's Mother ........ Tanya Moodie Douglas ........ Nathan Stewart-Jarrett Airman ........ Pethrow Gooden Mrs Anderson ........ Clare Perkins Mr Anderson ........ Declan Wilson Minister ........ Delroy Brown Music by Felix Cross Director: Sally Avens First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.