Anthony and Zoran's big adventure
Jamaican roots revival
Two women piece together their family story and their family’s supposed links to slavery before abolition in 1838 in Jamaican roots revival.
Anthony is a Mancunian with an unusual passion – as Anthony Shelmerdine-Boskovic, he is a quarter Serbian, and as his tattoo on his arm bears testament, he is obsessed with his Serbian roots.
Anthony’s hero was his Serbian grandfather Zoran, who died two years ago, having spent years feeding his grandson goulash alongside epic tales of his days fighting and then fleeing the Nazis in war-torn Europe.
Zoran was to see out his days in the PG Tips factory in Stretford, his hopes of returning to Serbia to find out more about the people and place he left behind sadly dashed by ill health.
Instead, Anthony makes the journey for both of them – taking his grandfather’s ashes, in a rucksack on his back, to the country his grandfather loved, fought for, but, at the age of just 17, was forced to flee.
Content last updated: 07/12/2005
