Three Little Birds

We've just caught up with the first episode and must say we enjoyed it very much - if enjoyed is the right word as I was getting angry too sometimes.

I think it’s going to be very good. Well done Lenny Henry for giving us a story that’s a skilful mix of humour and the uncomfortable truth.

I have binge watched it, the way The Windrush people were treated by some was shameful, I ended up in tears at times. My family were welcoming to everyone, I remember my mother worked with a lovely lady who came over. Very well made series I thought.

We've just watched the local news and the Bristol bus boycott activists went to meet MPs at Westminster today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67197378
heritagecalling.com/2023/04/20/the-story-of-the-bristol-bus-boycott/

Watched the first episode so still got the rest to see. It was very moving and sad how they have been treated. I have yet to find out what happened to the girl when the husband of the family she went to work for slipped her passport into his pocket.

Watched the first episode. It was ok, but nothing special.

The usual run of Sunday night viewing, Ten Pound Poms et al.

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I have binge watched it, the way The Windrush people were treated by some was shameful, I ended up in tears at times. My family were welcoming to everyone, I remember my mother worked with a lovely lady who came over. Very well made series I thought.

Lenny Henry keeps stirring the old pot doesn’t he? He should let it rest now along with his mate David Olusoga. They have both done very well out of this country yet still keep trying to tell us how dreadful we are.

I don’t think there can be a person in the country who doesn’t know about all the West Indians who came here in the early 50s.

My friend and her family came here from St Kitts when she was 3 and settled in Leicester where she still lives now. Her Mum was a nurse and her Dad worked on the buses. It wasn’t always easy but moving to any country has challenges. They knew other people moving here and soon established their own communities. She enjoyed her school years and we worked together for several years and she never spoke of any nasty treatment and I never witnessed it and we were always out together.

I thought it was superb. Brilliant production values and a, hopefully, totally authentic voice from Sir Lenny Henry who's own & family's lived experience of those times & societal mores is a story well worth telling, however many times he chooses.

I liked the clothes and the music. The accents were poor to be honest. I don’t understand why two of the 3 birds were sisters but one was obviously mixed race.

If there's one person I dislike, it is David Olisoga. I think he stirs trouble, obviously hates this country, surely he had made enough money out if it to go where he feels happy and valued. There is no need for anyone to be here if it's so bad. Now I see Three Little Birds and Lenny Henry in a different light.

Don’t you think that David O and Lenny H simply want people to know the truth? This country of ours has a history of belittling anyone who wasn’t white with the right accent or the right school. The Windrush generation were invited to the UK to take part in rebuilding the country after the war. Most were treated badly by the ‘motherland’. The colour bar went on for far too long. I think it’s important that today’s children are taught all our history not just carefully selected sections. David O is doing a grand job. He certainly doesn’t hate this country.

I didn’t know about the Windrush ship, had to look it up. I assume the people were mainly from Jamaica?

Ladyleftfieldlover

Don’t you think that David O and Lenny H simply want people to know the truth? This country of ours has a history of belittling anyone who wasn’t white with the right accent or the right school. The Windrush generation were invited to the UK to take part in rebuilding the country after the war. Most were treated badly by the ‘motherland’. The colour bar went on for far too long. I think it’s important that today’s children are taught all our history not just carefully selected sections. David O is doing a grand job. He certainly doesn’t hate this country.

You are right, in every way.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Don’t you think that David O and Lenny H simply want people to know the truth? This country of ours has a history of belittling anyone who wasn’t white with the right accent or the right school. The Windrush generation were invited to the UK to take part in rebuilding the country after the war. Most were treated badly by the ‘motherland’. The colour bar went on for far too long. I think it’s important that today’s children are taught all our history not just carefully selected sections. David O is doing a grand job. He certainly doesn’t hate this country.

Know the truth? You would have to be living in a cave to never have heard about racial prejudice which increased in the 50s as we invited West Indians to come and work here. It was the same for the Irish but they don’t keep on about it. Remember the posters No blacks, no Irish, no dogs?

There are many black people who say they have never encountered racism (like my friend from St Kitts and another from Tanzania) and there are some very famous black people who say the UK is the least racist country in the world.

Henry and Olisoga just like to keep stirring it up to keep their names current.

My friend came round the other day having just been to an event with David O. He was talking about the Industrial Revolution and she said “he says that the people who produced the cotton that came to our Northern Mills were black slaves”. I said “but surely everyone knew that anyway.” She said she didn’t which I find hard to believe since she was university educated. Everything he talks about he has to bring it round to black people being slaves and badly treated by us.

This is what Sir Trevor Phillips has to say

youtu.be/0Nwoq1mrwM8?si=ebQIxLwQr5jTlQ7Y

You cannot compare 70 years ago to today although Henry and Olusoga would have you believe it is equally bad.

My friends of AfroCaribbean heritage have had way different experiences to your fortunate friends Primrose53 and not just 70 years ago.

Just because it didn't happen to one person doesn't mean to say it didn't/doesn't happen.

If "stirring the pot" causes just one person to acknowledge the dreadful acts of discrimination and maybe for them to respond to racism with more understanding of the suffering caused then surely that's a good thing?

Why is it not addressed the way the Irish were treated? "No blacks, no Irish,no dogs", the signs seen everywhere.

I can remember when I was a child seeing notes on shop doors saying No blacks, no Irish, No gypsies. Was taught as a child to be frightened of black men and not go near them. As a teenager we had a lovely mixed race maths teacher who also taught us about apartheid in South Africa and racism. Changed my views completely and realised that all people are equal regardless of colour. He was a star.

It will show how racist this country was and in some form still is.

I don’t understand racism at all. I literally don’t. I haven’t watched the programme because I know what went on and it will upset me. Treating people badly because they have more melanin is utterly ridiculous to me. I Hope lots of younger people watch it so that they learn about the way people were treated because it is an important part of our history and hopefully will make them think. It’s obscene that the Windrush people were invited over and later told they had to go back. Social injustice at its absolute worst.

My Irish parents came over during the war years to work in Coventry, they eventually settled in London in the early 50’s ... the racism towards the Irish was just as bad yet their story is never spoken about as often as the Windrush.

Weĺl i binge watched it over 2nights and was thoroughly enthralled by it- the actors were all very good, but like other poster i too was confused by the different colouring of the sisters- i just assumed in the end(as no one had mentioned it) that perhaps they had different mothers & were actually half sisters?maybe its an explanation theyre saving if they bring out a 2nd series? I was also appalled by how they were treated but knew already some of this, its been well portrayed on 'Call the Midwife' set in same era and other shows and in history books etc, or even what our parents/grandparents have told us.Back in late 60's/early 70's my stepdad went to work building the motorways and we went too, lived in caravans- got to know all kinds of people, my mum had a lovely friend, a jamaican lady- her huge caravan was like a palace- and there were gypsy families too i was best friends with the youngest daughter- her nan had a true Romany wooden carved caravan.And our closest neighbours were an irish couple and other side an American & his welsh friend who worked together with my stepdad.Great folk all of them.Shame we never stayed in touch.

I’ve binge watched it and found it very moving. Also watched the programme about Kenny Henry last evening which was interesting. He’s obviously thought well of by many other “celebs”.

I found the programme very distressing. To see such unkindness and ignorance displayed by the English made me feel ashamed.