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The British Broadcasting Corporation One (BBC1) in the United Kingdom is planning to televise a major dramatization of Andrea Levy's bestselling novel "Small Island" which focuses on the experiences of Jamaicans arriving in Britain during the Windrush years.
Naomie Harris who stared in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean plays the lead in the television drama which also features Jamaican actor Glen 'Titus' Campbell.
The film is directed by John Alexander and is adapted from the book that won the 2005 Orange, Whitbread and Commonwealth Writers' prizes.
The story is set in Jamaica and Britain and follows the interlocking lives of four survivors of the Second World War.
Miss Harris plays Jamaican teacher Hortense, who moves to Britain with her former RAF pilot husband Gilbert David Oyelowo, but finds that British society does not accept them.
Their landlady, Queenie Bligh, only takes them in because she needs the rent and is scorned by her neighbours - although her attitude towards the couple softens.
"Small Island" also presents a picture of how Jamaican soldiers fighting for Britain in World War Two were perceived and how they dealt with issues such as racism and mixed-race relationships.
The film is due to be televised in two parts in October.
The Empire Windrush is the name of the ship on which the first wave of Jamaican and other West Indian immigrants traveled to Britain in 1948.
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