Episode 5 begins with Olly reading a letter he wrote to his Dad on 30 November 1983. It’s a bulky missive, with updates about his ultra short lived college punk band Vile Style, seeing theatre from Spare Tyre and music from Killing Joke, learning African and Caribbean students from mature student Cyril, and researching Australian First Nation performance. This sets the pebbles of memory skimming across the surface of time, as Olly thinks about his lifelong love of music and obsession with comedy – and he comes across a firsthand account from the late pioneering alternative comedian Tony Allen supporting Killing Joke at the Lyceum in 1981. Olly records a new version of one of the songs he wrote for Vile Style, before dipping into the Family History Box. There he finds an adorable letter his Dad received from his Jamaican penfriend Lloyd back in August 1949. Not only that, but he also finds a photo of the teenage Eddy playing drums with an unnamed jazz band. The episode ends with a clip of Olly talking to his Dad about his love of jazz and his hatred of racism.

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