Sad Song of Plantain poem
by Roger Robinson
'I lie as quiet as death in this ‘three for two pounds’ cardboard box'
Regarding Turner
by Franklin Nelson
What does knowing of the revered British artist's investment in chattel slavery mean for his legacy?
Building Literary Resistance
by Naomi Foyle
Personal reflections as a white, non-Muslim, middle-class editor for the journal Critical Muslim
Watching a theatre go dark
by Amanda Vilanova
What we lost with the Blue Elephant Theatre
Waste not, want not
by Michael McMillan
The cultural politics of waste
Frank Bowling
by Franklin Nelson
An interview with one of the foremost artists of his generation, Sir Frank Bowling
Other Wild
by Maria Jastrzębska
Emily Zobel Marshall invites us to heal by connecting to our senses and the natural world
Fiction Prescriptions
Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy introduce our new podcast series, Fiction Prescriptions, focussed on bibliotherapy. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas, and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from books.
All the men my mother never married
by Eric Ngalle Charles
A chapter from an unpublished autobiography, dedicated to my mother, Sarah Efeti Kange