CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Clive's trip to Jamaica proves pride in your heritage is deeply important By Christopher Stevens Published: 01:22, 28 May 2024 | Updated: 01:23, 28 May 2024 e-mail View comments Clive Myrie 's Caribbean Adventure (BBC2) Rating: One of the most ghastly blunders anyone can commit is to ask a black or Asian person in Britain, 'Where are you from?' The question is now deemed unforgivably racist. Susan Hussey, a Lady of the Household to King Charles , learned this to her cost in 2022 when, at a reception hosted by Queen Camilla , she innocently asked the question of a guest, charity organiser Ngozi Fulani. Baroness Susan was obliged to apologise and relinquish her royal duties, though she has since been quietly welcomed back into the palace fold.
Yet, as presenter Clive Myrie emphasises on his Caribbean Adventure, family roots are deeply important to most people. To ignore that seems, to me at least, equally insensitive. As presenter Clive Myrie emphasises on his Caribbean Adventure (pictured), family roots are deeply important to most people, writes Christopher Stevens On a coffee farm in the Blue Mountains north of the capital, Kingston, he joined his older sister Judith, who recently moved back to Jamaica from the UK Clive was born in Bolton, Lancashire, to parents who had recently emigrated from Jamaica.
One of the chief figureheads of BBC News, he's as British as it's possible to be. He also adores his heritage and loves his mum an.