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	Podcast:		Witness: Witness Black History
	Episode:		The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:10:21
	Publish Date:		2022-10-07 09:00:00
	Description:		On 30 January 1959, the late Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party in St Pancras Town Hall in London, planting the seeds for the famous carnival. She wanted to bring Caribbeans across the capital together for dancing, singing and steel bands. Rachel Naylor hears from her best friend, Corinne Skinner-Carter. (Photo: A woman having a good time at Claudia Jones' Caribbean carnival, at St Pancras Town Hall in London, 1959. Credit: Daily Mirror via Getty Images)
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