“My mum, my auntie and a mail order bride came to Britain in 1957,” says Sir Lenny Henry, the acclaimed actor, writer, filmmaker and comedian. “And I always think that’s like the beginning of a great joke. Three Jamaican women came to Britain to cause trouble, and oh boy, did they find it when they got here.
Sir Lenny is speaking ahead of the release of his latest work, Three Little Birds – named after the Bob Marley song – a post-Windrush series that chronicles the experiences of three Jamaican women as they land in Britain and attempt to make it their home. The gulf between their expectations and reality is wide. Their welcome is signs plastered to windows that read: ‘No blacks, no dogs, no Irish.
“We’re also telling our own stories,” she continues, “which feels timely and I can’t think of many shows where the heads of department have all been people from the Caribbean community telling a Caribbean story.” Sir Lenny, who remains behind the camera in Three Little Birds, agrees: “It was the most diverse set I’ve ever been on, for sure. I’ve done a lot of shows and I’ve never seen so many black and brown people on a set. Every time I arrived on the set people would go: ‘This is my story.
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