The Essay: Part 1 of 4

A Sense of Ourselves: Four writers and immigrants to Britain give the outsider's perspective on modern Britishness. Jamaican poet James Berry came to Britain 60 years ago as part of the Windrush generation. He talks about the process of rethinking the idea of Britishness he had absorbed as a child of Empire and his subsequent efforts to bring Caribbean culture to bear on Britishness through literature.