Zakia Sewell is a writer and documentary-maker. She hosts BBC 6 Music’s Dream Time. Her radio documentaries on taste, cultural critic Stuart Hall, her relationship with her mother, Amey St Cyr, and folk cultures across the UK, can be found on BBC Sounds. Her debut nonfiction book, Finding Albion, is an exploration of British national identity, folk culture and myth.
Zakia Sewell
In conversation
Zakia Sewell: 'I was in Wales over the weekend, and you see the Welsh flag everywhere. And it elicits a very different response in me to the St George's Cross, which is ostensibly my flag.'
In conversation with Colin Grant
6th May 2026
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Zakia Sewell
Zakia Sewell is a writer and documentary-maker.


