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- ↑ "Oxy & the Morons".
- ↑ Theatre Record - Page 700 2005 "The irony absent at the close is touchingly evident at the start which Paul Sirett (book and lyrics) places on the Empire Windrush as it arrives in British waters in 1948, bringing the first Caribbean immigrants to these shores. "We comin to Inglan!"
- ↑ Julie Sanders Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings - Page 1894 0745657656 - 2013 "The experiences of the Windrush generation themselves in London and elsewhere were the subject of several ... The Big Life responds to, and takes it stimulus from, this complicated set of inheritances.5 Written by Paul Sirett (the Royal .."
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