Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 55 minutes ago
A documentary slice of Jamaican life in Wales, narrated in Shaetlan by Christie Williamson, about Audrey West, poet, artist, and community worker. Alongside samples of Audrey's poetry and conversation, this film contributes to a small Jamaican collection which forms part of an extension series of the Island Voices project, in which its "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic.
More info, with Christie's thoughts on the production here: guthan.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/shaetlan-connections
The Audrey West Collection:
Jamaican in Wales documentary in various languages –
Jamaican youtu.be/eBtUW94mRFQ
Welsh youtu.be/l3nL-nj6MKk
Gaelic youtu.be/v_mA81Zf_xI
English youtu.be/RIXh5hfixBg
Catalan youtu.be/_BUbrnEEjBU
Haitian Creole youtu.be/cNyuWI5id2k
Portuguese youtu.be/1Q6fkFKrt-0
Conversation youtu.be/vzxuza6ChW4
Poetry 1 youtu.be/qlQry7_oUyY
Poetry 2 youtu.be/9Q41fUT06x8
Further background:
guthan.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/jamiekan-ina-wielz
About Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean:
guthan.wordpress.com/about
Subtitling note: unfortunately, Shaetlan is not recognised as a language by YouTube or Google Translate. This has led to the contradictory position of labelling the language used in this film as "English (United Kingdom)" in order to enable the subtitling function to work for the Shaetlan language, if you wish to read Christie's text. "English (auto-generated)" subtitles - also available in the settings wheel - will struggle with all parts of the film not in Standard English.
A documentary slice of Jamaican life in Wales, narrated in Shaetlan by Christie Williamson, about Audrey West, poet, artist, and community worker. Alongside samples of Audrey's poetry and conversation, this film contributes to a small Jamaican collection which forms part of an extension series of the Island Voices project, in which its "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic.
More info, with Christie's thoughts on the production here: guthan.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/shaetlan-connections
The Audrey West Collection:
Jamaican in Wales documentary in various languages –
Jamaican youtu.be/eBtUW94mRFQ
Welsh youtu.be/l3nL-nj6MKk
Gaelic youtu.be/v_mA81Zf_xI
English youtu.be/RIXh5hfixBg
Catalan youtu.be/_BUbrnEEjBU
Haitian Creole youtu.be/cNyuWI5id2k
Portuguese youtu.be/1Q6fkFKrt-0
Conversation youtu.be/vzxuza6ChW4
Poetry 1 youtu.be/qlQry7_oUyY
Poetry 2 youtu.be/9Q41fUT06x8
Further background:
guthan.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/jamiekan-ina-wielz
About Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean:
guthan.wordpress.com/about
Subtitling note: unfortunately, Shaetlan is not recognised as a language by YouTube or Google Translate. This has led to the contradictory position of labelling the language used in this film as "English (United Kingdom)" in order to enable the subtitling function to work for the Shaetlan language, if you wish to read Christie's text. "English (auto-generated)" subtitles - also available in the settings wheel - will struggle with all parts of the film not in Standard English.
