In conversation

Speaking in multiple voices and the gift of different identities.

Growing up Black in the care and mental health systems, embodied cultural knowledge and Black masculinity.

Talking about what she's learned along the way and how she pays that learning forward.

John Siddique meets multi-genre, multi-voiced, writer Peter Kalu to talk about his life long fascination and journey with the power of story.


Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2019, and the following year, he spoke to Gabriel Gbadamosi about empathy in black writing, and migrant experience becoming rooted in words to keep us human.

Rommi Smith has excavated an overlooked history of black people in Britain in her work and particularly in interpreting a series of extraordinary photos from the archives of the TopFoto agency. Through Smith's carefully researched poetic responses she is changing the story of what we consider the nature of Britain.

Angela’s Saini’s book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, though celebrated by figures such as the evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, also attracted racist social media trolls. Saini talks to Colin Grant about the timeliness of her book and the evolution of her writing with a social conscience.

The Jamaican-British poet speaks of living with ghosts, writing with his ear and his filial devotion.

The Booker Prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks to Colin Grant in front of a warm audience in Brighton about never giving up, her modus operandi as explored in Manifesto, her memoir and handbook for an active and engaged life.

The novelist tells of her love of the language of Trinidad and her move from law to writing.

Alex Wheatle talks to Roopa Farooki about his career as a writer of literary and Young Adult fiction.