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• Lyndon: So, how do you think Jamaica influenced the English-speaking world?
• Liz: Well, I suppose it’s definitely, I mean, I don’t know about the English-speaking world but it’s definitely had a big influence on London.
• Lyndon: I think, I think for the size, it’s obviously had one of the biggest impacts on …
• Liz: Yeah, true.
• Lyndon: Especially on the UK.
• Liz: Music, definitely.
• Lyndon: And food.
• Liz: And food, of course. Yes. What food do you like?
• Lyndon: I still remember salt fish.
• Liz: Salt fish?
• Lyndon: We used to eat a lot of salt fish when I lived in Manchester.
• Liz: And rice and peas?
• Lyndon: And rice and peas, I never liked. Too salty.
• Liz: You never liked that? Okay. What about you, Cheryl? Have you?
• Cheryl: No experience…
• Liz: No? Even jerk chicken? You’ve not had that?
• Cheryl: That’s the only thing… My dad made a very, very good jerk chicken, and that was it.
• Liz: Okay, so it definitely had an influence on the States as well, quite big, I guess.
• Cheryl: I don’t know (laughs).
• Liz: Yeah, okay… And the music, of course, with the…
• Lyndon: Well, that was in the article about Bob Marley.
• Liz: Yeah, and Peter Tosh and…
• Lyndon: So, were you aware that Bob Marley played a big role in the politics of Jamaica, at the end of the 70s?
• Liz: Well, I don’t know very much about it, but was he sort of on the left?
• Lyndon: I don’t really know, I know he was, at one point, I think he was friends with the, the sort of leftish prime minister.
• Liz: And didn’t he… Wasn’t one of the reasons he left for London, the fact that there’d been an assassination attempt, someone had tried to shoot him?
• Lyndon: Oh yeah, yeah… Who was it, who was it who tried to assassinate him?
• Liz: I think it was the right, but there was… I saw, I saw a documentary^* and there was, kind of, I think there was a… The US were mixed up somehow, maybe, or there’s a suspicion that the Reagan and the US were mixed up in the funding, or providing arms. Obviously, it’s hard to prove.
• Lyndon: I remember, didn’t he go back to that gig and he tried to get the leaders of the two sides to shake hands?
• Liz: Yeah, cos he was all about peace. All his music’s about peace!

^* The documentary in question is called Who Shot the Sheriff? and it is on Netflix now.


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