Johnny Smythe

Johnny is four heroes in one: he’s one of the very Few – the 500 African, Caribbean and Black British RAF aircrew in World War II; he’s a Prisoner of War, helping arrange escapes from Stalag Luft I; he ends up Sierra Leone’s Attorney General – and, most wonderfully, he’s the mastermind behind the Windrush

Join us as we talk to Trevor Edwards, a modern-day Johnny Smythe who, as a young Black Londoner, spent a decade in the RAF