Lives Less Ordinary

Black, Korean, stateless: A Slickyboy’s American dream, part 1


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Growing up as the son of a sex worker and a black US soldier in South Korea in the '70s, Milton Washington was seen as an outcast, and "not Korean". He couldn't even get a birth certificate. Still, he was loved and protected by his mum, the two of them against the world. She told him his dad was in America, a land of flying cars and ice cream mountains - and that was where Milton wanted to be, too.

Presenter: Jo Fidgen

Producer: Laura Thomas

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