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- ↑ "Nadia Cattouse: Kelston Round Hill (1967)" from Songs of Grief & Glory on YouTube
- ↑ Review by Joe Tangari of Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up, Pitchfork, 26 October 2005.
- ↑ "Nadia Cattouse – B. C. People" on YouTube
- ↑ Nadia Cattouse: "All Around my Grandmother's Floor" from Earth Mother on YouTube
- ↑ "Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2".
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- ↑ Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television (Continuum, 2001), pp. 112–18.
- ↑ "Freedom Road: Songs of Negro Protest (1964)", BFI.
- ↑ "Nadia Cattouse – Long Time Boy" on YouTube
- ↑ Kamcdonald, "Belize government Meritorious Service Award goes to…", The University of Glasgow's International Story blog, 21 April 2014.
