Not separated at birth

Watching "Seven Ages of Rock" on BBC 2 last night, my husband suddenly blurted out "Don Letts, the black Adam Hart Davis" and had me weeping with laughter because it was so true and so insane at the same time.  The similarity of voice in the two of them is part of it too - a kind of barking, enthusiastic, insistency.

I think that's when you know you are in "non-racial" mode, I remember once seeing an elderly Japanese man in the meeting room coffee shop area of a major Japanese construction company and immediately exclaiming to myself "it's Svend!" (my Danish grandfather).  Or meeting a Karen tribe man in Mandalay, Burma, and having an instant flashback to my Scottish, archaeologist ex-boyfriend - same moustache, same Rayban sunglasses, same mannerisms.

 

Don Letts                                                                        Adam Hart Davis

Enthusiastic populariser of punk and reggae        Enthusiastic populariser of science