From My Yard To Your Yard | From My Yard To Your Yard

In 1962 Raymond Ezekiel Coke boarded a plane from Kingston Jamaica to come to London in the UK. In 2021 Clayton M Coke, Raymond’s son switched on a microphone & recorded his father's journey for posterity. A journey that many others from "The Windrush Generation" had also taken. From My Yard to Your Yard is the oral history of that journey but it’s also the history of being black, Caribbean, British, and that relationship with the Commonwealth & ultimately the UK.

This podcast has been broken into 3 parts and each part signifies the type of music that my father would have been listening to at each stage in his life.

Episode 1: The Ska Years

Episode 2: The Reggae Years

Episode 3: The Gospel Years

The picture on the cover of this podcast shows from [L to R] Vincent “Tex” Sewell aka “Uncle Vin”, Raymond Ezekiel Coke aka my Father, William Albert Coke aka “Uncle Will”

This picture was one of 3 only one survives and this picture was supplied courtesy of Christine Sewell, Uncle Vin’s daughter.

Theme song “Hurricane Raymond “ [podcast edit].

Written, arranged & produced by Clayton M Coke For Dialogue London Limited

What is From My Yard To Your Yard?

In 1962 Raymond Ezekiel Coke boarded a plane from Kingston Jamaica to come to London in the UK. In 2021 Clayton M Coke, Raymond’s son switched on a microphone & recorded his father's journey for posterity.A journey that many others from "The Windrush Generation" had also taken. From My Yard to Your Yard is the oral history of that journey but it’s also the history of being black, Caribbean, British, and that relationship with the Commonwealth & ultimately the UK.