So-

So-Initially to transcribe his handwritten notes and type scripts onto a computer, and then subsequently, as the months went on, to transcribe directly from his voice.

Uh, most of that work, uh, became what's now known as Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, which was heavily worked on by Bill Schwarz, and is available from Penguin Books.

And that's really Stuart's reflections, memories, um, account of his formation in Jamaica in the 1930s and his arrival in Britain in 1951.

What did I learn from working closely with him over two and a half years? I was visiting him every week for four hours, so I learned many things.

But I think the important thing that I'd share with everyone is, uh, the generosity which he showed towards others.

Young people who were contacting him for the first time through to old colleagues and comrades from the very distant past.

Here's Nick talking about that very essay.