Shows
How To Be 60 with Kaye AdamsJackie Kay: Identity, Ageing, and the Freedom of Not Fitting InOn this week’s episode, we’re joined by Jackie Kay - poet, novelist, former Scots Makar and one of the sharpest, warmest thinkers on identity, belonging and getting older without shrinking. We talk about turning 60 as a clarifying moment, why writing is a lifelong form of processing, living on the margins by choice, love without cohabitation, grief, friendship, and what really matters as you age.Whether you’re rethinking who you are, how you live, or how much of yourself you’re willing to give away, this is a conversation about staying whole, because it’s never just...
2026-01-0957 min
From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony“Darling” by Scottish poet Jackie Kay. Episode 24/30 READING POETRY #NaPodPoMoPaul O’Mahony introduces Jackie Kay’s “Darling”. Jackie was born in Edinburgh in 1961 - her mother Scottish, her father Nigerian. You hear Jackie Kay reading her poem. You also hear Paul having a go at reading it #NaPodPoMo—————-DARLINGYou might forget the exact sound of her voice
or how her face looked when sleeping.
You might forget the sound of her quiet weeping
curled into the shape of a half moon,
when smaller than her self, she seemed already to be leaving
before she left, when the blossom was on the trees
and the sun was out...
2025-11-2705 min
Neurodiverse Love with Mona KayThe Joys of Being Autistic: Finding Self-Love -Jackie SchuldIf you would like to get more information about the resources, Mona offers through Neurodiverse love you can check out her website at neurodiverselove.com—————————————————————————-Enjoyable, loving relationships are far more likely when we first possess self-love. But this is often difficult for autistics. Not only do we experience many neurodivergent challenges, we are inundated with information about the negative aspects of autism. This limited picture prevents us from seeing ourselves fully. There are many wonderful, joyous things that come with being autistic. In this episode Jackie Schuld’s session from the 2025 Neurodiverse Love Conference , explores the j...
2025-10-1433 min
This Cultural LifeJackie KayJackie Kay is one of the best known and most popular Scottish literary figures. A poet and novelist, she served as Makar - the name for Scotland’s poet laureate - for five years from 2016. Since her debut poetry collection The Adoption Papers in 1991, she has published 20 works of fiction and verse for adults and children, and a memoir about meeting her biological parents called Red Dust Road. Jackie Kay was made a CBE for services to literature in 2020.Jackie talks to John Wilson about her childhood in Glasgow as the mixed-race, adopted daughter of a loving co...
2025-10-0243 min
Uncopyable Women in BusinessEpisode 166 | Fun Facts with Jackie JoySend us a textIn this episode, Jackie Joy takes on my five signature “fun questions,” giving us a peek at the heart behind her incredible journey:What did you want to be when you grew up?What’s something you still want to do?What do you love most about yourself?What’s one thing you’d like to change?And… your favorite vacation spot?It’s a short, honest, and surprisingly insightful way to see the woman behind the business. You won’t want to miss it!Want to be more succe...
2025-08-1009 minUncopyable Women in BusinessEpisode 165 | Here Come the Girls: Women in Global Leadership - Jackie JoySend us a textIn this episode of Uncopyable Women in Business, I talk with Jackie Joy, Chief Strategy and Development Officer at The Perfect Plan, we talk about the groundbreaking research in Here Come the Girls, a book by behavioral economist Dr. Don Barden. Dr. Barden predicts that women will take over global leadership by 2028. Jackie is a powerhouse executive coach and leadership mentor who promotes human-centered, heart-driven leadership, and she's on a mission to help women rise while mentoring men to be their strongest allies.Jackie shares what makes this shift so powerful—and...
2025-08-0733 min
The Happy MenopauseSew Your Way Through the Menopause with Jenni Smith & Kay Walsh, Sewing Experts & Authors. S6. Ep 17.What do you do to relax? It’s a question I ask all the time in my nutrition clinic, because making time to decompress from the daily stresses and strains can have a profound effect on how you experience the menopause. And yet, you’d be surprised how often it’s met with a slightly awkward pause, as someone tries to remember the last time they consciously made space to relax.In this final episode of Season Six of The Happy Menopause, we’re exploring a wonderfully creative and therapeutic way to unwind: sewing. And yes, the health b...
2025-07-0338 min
African Women's ArtJackie Kay on community, keeping hope alive and the strength in opennessIt was an honour and joy to speak with the brilliant Jackie Kay on the podcast. Jackie Kay is a prolific and award-wining poet, playwright and novelist. From 2016 to 2021 she was the Makar, the poet laureate of Scotland.Reading Jackie Kay’s work feels like such a warm balm to my spirit. She thoughtfully explores the beauty, challenges and complexities of life with love, grace and humour.In our conversation we talk about the importance of community, keeping hope alive on the journey of activism, the strength in honesty and disguise in openness and how gr...
2025-05-1629 min
Bedside ReadingBedside Poetry: Jo Maher and I explore "Three Little Birds" by Jackie KaySend us a textIn this episode, I'm joined by GP Jo Maher as we delve into Jackie Kay’s evocative poem “Three Little Birds” We explore grief, memory, the power of music and the possibility of an earworm from beyond the graveWhether you’re familiar with her work or discovering it for the first time, this episode offers a heartfelt look at one of Jackie Kay’s most moving poems.we mentioned Jo's partner's poetry podcast which you can find here: https://www.chris-jones.org.uk/
2025-05-1322 min
Word of MouthJackie Kay on the Scots languagePoet Jackie Kay has written a book in Scots: Coorie Doon: A Scottish Lullaby Story. She joins presenter Michael Rosen to talk about her love of the language and what it meant to her growing up.
Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Beth O'Dea.
Subscribe to the Word of Mouth podcast and never miss an episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006qtnz
2025-01-2327 min
Saturday LiveJackie Kay, Huw Ware, Peter Murray, Alice RobertsThe literary alchemist Jackie Kay, poet, author and playwright, whose words dance between the very personal and the universal - she wants us to Coorie Doon. We’ve scored a bullseye in getting darts referee and LGBT+ ambassador Huw Ware on the show...so…game on! Sir Peter Murray, the visionary sculptor of landscapes and minds alike reveals how he went from an educationalist to founder of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. All that plus the Inheritance Tracks of Professor Alice Roberts are dug up.Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephens
Producer: Ben...
2025-01-111h 02
Humble StepSeason 1 Teaser, or, Only One Moonthis show is improvised and performed by emme kay, bryce weinert, frank hartley, and jackie madejskiwith additional writing from emme kay.it is edited by emme kay and produced by bryce weinert.we use the campaign book humblewood from hit point press, as well as home brewed rules inspired by wanderhome by jay dragon, perilous wilds by lampblack & brimstone, and dungeon world by sage latorra and adam koebel.
love this? consider supporting its creator, emme kay, at bit.ly/emmekay
2024-12-2903 min
2024-12-152h 26
100 Black Women Who Have Made A MarkProfessor Jackie Kay CBE FRSE FRSLPawlet Brookes talks with Jackie Kay as they discuss Kay’s journey as a writer. Listen as Kay describes her influences, proudest moments and visions for the future. Music by NWAKKE
2024-10-2314 min
My Blog » maka17>Read PDF Chiaroscuro by Jackie Kay any formatLink To Download : https://ebookfoundation.cloud/?book=1786829746 To Download or Read Chiaroscuro by Jackie Kay Available versions: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, DOC, Kindle, Audiobook, etc. Reading Chiaroscuro Download Chiaroscuro PDF/EBooks Chiaroscuro
2024-10-0500 min
Loose EndsRussell Watson, Jackie Kay, Deborah McAndrew and Adam Kay join Nihal with music from The Lemon TwigsThe tenor Russell Watson's remarkable career took him from playing from working mens clubs in Salford to performing at the Vatican. But his life hasn't been completely charmed - he discusses the brain tumour that threatened his life as well as his voice and how he found his way back to centre stage.Jackie Kay is one of the UK's most lauded poets who turned to writing as a child as a sanctuary from the difficulties of life as an adopted, if much loved, half-Nigerian child in Scotland. A new BBC One documentary tells her story "In...
2024-09-2100 min
1230 TWC Business Beat PodcastBusiness Boosts & Brilliant Guests with Host Jackie Groundsell 🎙Episode 84✨ It’s time for another fabulous episode! Today’s show is packed with exciting moments, including BIRTHDAY SHOUT-OUTS 🎉, a huge hug to everyone, and of course, don’t forget your pens and paper – we’ve got lots to cover!
From Monday’s Radio show 9 September.
📅 On the Show Today: Special guest – ANNABEL KAYE of KOFFEEKLATCH
Helen Manchip & Jane Rogers – 24 September, Bromley Business Marketing Boost at Contingent Works! I’ll be there with the 1230 TWC stand.
🌟 Coming Soon: We’ve got an epic lineup! International Speaker Rikki Arundel, TV Presenter Caroline Heward, and the amazing Menopause Gang...
2024-09-191h 17
Poëzie VandaagLate liefde (Jackie Kay)Vandaag: 'Late liefde' van Jackie Kay (1961). Voorgedragen en geduid door Ellen Deckwitz.
2024-07-1103 min
Reality TestAward Show | Week of 6/24 | “Jackie is the gatekeeper to Margaret’s Arsenal” ::} 031Dr.s Kay & Ray dispense their 8 awards (all with “test” in their labels) to moments & castmates from all of the realiTV shows they watched this past week. And the TESTosterboned (most patriarchal) award gooooes to… whom? Hint: Dr. Kay’s TESTosterboned award went to someone from Real Housewives of New Jersey (where Jackie & Margaret play), with an honorable mention to someone from Love Undercover, while Dr. Ray awarded it to someone from Summer House!What about the opposite aw...
2024-07-0244 min
Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIBDonna Ashworth, Jackie Kay, Catherine Coldstream and Joseph Coelho - Boswell Book FestivalMore authors from the Boswell Book Festival this week including Catherine Coldstream on her book Cloistered: My Years As a Nun and two great but very different poetry collections with Jackie Kay's Mayday and Donna Ashworth's Wild Hope.
Plus, away from the festival, we get the books of your life from Yoto Carnegie Medal Winner Joseph Coelho and find new books available in the RNIB Library.
2024-06-2857 min
Somewhere: for usJackie KayWhat kind of biscuits do you lay out for a national icon? I settled on gingers and spent too long arranging them on one of my wife’s favourite plates. We record at my home (ten points if you can hear the bin lorry during the chat!) and Jackie was kind enough to come over and share the stories behind this new collection of poems, and its title, ‘May Day’, a chronicle of activism in the UK over six decades.
It’s a feisty conversation, with peaks of revelry as Jackie recalls her encounter with Maya Angelou (doing an impecc...
2024-06-2044 min
The Shift with Sam BakerJackie Kay on absence, adoption & the art of living together apartMy guest today has blazed a trail through the British poetry scene ever since her work was first published in 1991. Born in Edinburgh, Jackie Kay MBE was brought up in Glasgow by her adoptive parents, Helen and John Kay, of whom much more later. She has had countless poetry collections, short stories and novels published to acclaim, as well as her glorious memoir Red Dust Road which tells the story of meeting her birth parents. The winner of over 20 awards, Jackie is a professor of creative writing at Salford University and for five years she was the Scottish Makar (t...
2024-05-281h 00
Pop Run RadioPop Run Radio - Episode 65 - Bookie Besties, Marisa Willis and Raegan KaySend us a textThis week we welcome the Bookie Besties Marisa Willis and Raegan Kay. You’ve heard Jackie talk about Bookstagram… time to learn more about it! Support the showContact - Pop Run Radio - Jackie and Maegan E- Mail us at :poprunradio@gmail.com
2024-05-1358 min
Best of the SpectatorThe Book Club: Jackie KayThis week, my guest on the Book Club podcast is the poet Jackie Kay, whose magnificent new book May Day combines elegy and celebration. She tells me about her adoptive parents – a communist trade unionist and a leading figure in CND – and growing up in a household where teenage rebellion could mean going to church. We also discuss her beginnings as a poet, her debt to Robbie Burns and Angela Davis and how grief itself can be a form of protest.
2024-05-0838 min
The Book ClubJackie Kay: May DayThis week, my guest on the Book Club podcast is the poet Jackie Kay, whose magnificent new book May Day combines elegy and celebration. She tells me about her adoptive parents – a communist trade unionist and a leading figure in CND – and growing up in a household where teenage rebellion could mean going to church. We also discuss her beginnings as a poet, her debt to Robbie Burns and Angela Davis and how grief itself can be a form of protest. Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast without adverts. Go to spectator.co.uk/adfree to find...
2024-05-0838 min
Should Have Listened to My Mother Podcast“She Taught Me About Determination, Perseverance and Unconditional Love” with Guest Author and Retired Professor Emeritus, Robert W. NorrisKaye and her family traveled from to the Pacific Northwest and eventually settled in White Salmon, WA. In order for them to have food on the table and a roof over their head, they had to work hard. With all those mouths to feed and though at times there wasn't much to go around, they felt blessed because they had each other.Nothing could get in Kay's way. Nothing stopped her from doing what she wanted to do or what ever she had to do. That said, the had to back up her decisions with a supporting argu...
2024-03-2631 minNeurodiverse Love with Mona KayWays We Can Understand Our Most Authentic Selves: Mental, Emotional, Sensory, Body, Social and Passions-with Jackie SchuldYou can buy a digital deck of the "Neurodiverse Love Conversation Cards", or the recently released "Neurodiverse Love Conversation Card Workbook" at: www.neurodiverselove.com.
On the Neurodiverse Love website you can also subscribe to the Neurodiverse Love newsletter, or get more information about the support groups that Mona facilitates for neurodiverse couples, or the neurotypical/non-autistic partners.
Thank you for being part of the Neurodiverse Love community!
________________________________________________________
On this episode, Jackie Schuld, a Registered Expressive Arts Therapist and mental health counselor, shares her expertise and lived experiences as a late diagnosed Autistic...
2023-12-121h 10
Out of Your Mind Mom PodcastEpisode 20: Transformation through sufferingIn this episode Jackie shares a quote that resonates with her experience and also shares a successful discussion she had with her son in with they found a quick way to check in and cut out the shame.
2023-11-2721 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastTime traveling love virus!In this episode Jackie touches on her thoughts about time travel and how it can help us grow our self love and connection with others. Thanks for listening.
2023-10-0118 min
The Teacher StoryEp.59-Designing Classrooms That Foster Creativity and Collaboration-Kevin FooteKevin Foote, M.Ed., ALEP is a former Educator and now is an Education Design Specialist for the Southwest U.S. with Kay-Twelve. With a wealth of knowledge in not only public schools but also charter and private ones, he can provide solutions for schools to thrive in today's challenge of engaging students and creating collaborative classrooms. He has also been accredited by ALEP (Accreditation of Learning Environments Planners) which demonstrates his competencies essential to planning, designing and equipping educational spaces. At Kay-Twelve, they don’t just furnish classrooms. They improve education outcomes by facilitating collaboration and innovation between st...
2023-08-2759 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastEp 18: Know ThyselfIn this episode Jackie talks about the reality of now, not judging ourselves but most importantly knowing thyself! She also shares the four tenants Be good, Do Good, Have Faith and Enjoy the Ride.
2023-07-3123 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastLow Demand Parenting and the Sibling LoopIn this Episode Jackie shares a resource she found that opened her understanding of low demand parenting. She also shares more about the sibling dynamics between her sons and how they get caught in a loop of feeling hurt and hurting each other.
2023-07-1323 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastRadical Self Acceptance 🔑This feels like a golden key moment for Jackie. The journey to radical self acceptance isn’t an easy one, but we are on it! Jackie shares a recent mind blowing moment she had after spending a day at the beach!
2023-07-0521 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastEnd of School Year ReflectionsIn this episode Jackie shares her end of school year reflections, thoughts on her son getting a phone and talks a bit about anime and swords! Why not?
2023-06-2220 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastBattery Charged MomIn this episode Jackie explains the Battery Charge Analogy for life force. She shares a personal story and reminds us that life can be lived with ease.
2023-04-2020 min
House of PerspectiveBDSM with Coach Jacquie the Sensual StrategistIn Today's episode Chay and Kay dive into the world of BDSM. Coach Jacquie is the CEO of Mirrored Vision Coaching. We explore communicating Kinks as a love language, the impact of physical touch, words of affirmations, and erotic style. BDSM is often seen as a Taboo. Ever wonder why? Ever wonder why or how these erotic role playing activities- involving bondage, discipline, dominance, submission can be healing? Join us in the House of Perspective as Coach Jackie gives us her perspective on BDSM ! You don't want to miss this one!
If you would...
2023-04-1745 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastObserving Yourself & Leveling UpJackie gets real in this episode and shares what it feels like to be the observer of yourself. She also touches on leveling up in the game of life and feeling a natural high.
2023-03-2522 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastPatience for Everyone, Especially YOU!In this episode, Jackie talks about seasons, the importance of patience as a parent and most importantly patience with yourself. You got this!
2023-03-1119 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastWho am I and How did I get in this Tunnel?In this episode Jackie vulnerably shares what it feels like to be at your lowest and how she makes it through. Sometimes your living life in the garden on a sunny day and sometimes your in the dark tunnel with a glass floor.
2023-03-0414 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastCelebrating 10 Episodes!Wow, this is a milestone for Jackie and she acknowledges that in this short episode, while also sharing a out of your mind story!
2023-02-2606 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastIce Storms and a New Theme for 2023!Austin, Texas had another ice storm and it created space for breathing, connection and gratitude.
2023-02-0817 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastToo Many Activities, Too little time to just BEIn this 8th episode, Jackie talks about family life full of activities and obligations and she reflects on the times in life when having nothing to do has been the greatest gift.
2023-02-0516 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastGetting Stuck in Middle SchoolIn this episode Jackie shares her experience with her middle schooler and shares her thoughts on how society can get stuck in a middle school mentality.
2023-01-2218 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastThemes for 2023In this episode Jackie shares the two themes she’ll be carrying with her during this year.
2023-01-1414 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastGame Theory Parenting***This episode is the reason this podcast was started. The "life is a game" theory that Jackie shares in this episode can change life as you know it. This theory isn't just for parents, its for everyone.
2022-12-1018 min
Korks TalksReview: Malorie Blackman in conversation with Jackie Kay at British LibraryReview: Malorie Blackman in conversation with Jackie Kay at British Library (about her memoir - 'Just Sayin')
2022-12-0618 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastBeing an Honest ParentIn this episode Jackie shares two stories and describes what it means for her to be an honest parent.
2022-12-0322 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastSchizophrenia and Becoming MeIn this episode Jackie shares about her fear of developing schizophrenia and how that ruled her life. She also shares a 6 month old recording of herself finally experiencing self acceptance and self love.
2022-11-1923 minOut of Your Mind Mom PodcastAttachment and Multidimensional HealingIn this episode Jackie shares about her attachment disorder and touches on her ideas regarding multidimensional & multigenerational healing.
2022-11-1226 min
Out of Your Mind Mom PodcastLet's get startedThe beginning of the journey. Jackie introduces herself and shares a recent mistake and melt down she has. Don't worry, the editing will get better :) Thanks for listening.
2022-10-0225 min
women readJane reads Jackie KayName: Jane
Reading: Trumpet, Jackie Kay
Why did you want to read this? I wanted to read this because it remained in my memory so clearly. I loved the story and the clarity of the narrators voice, with the words and images falling like the notes of the trumpet. Her descriptions of the house by the sea and that whole locality, feel very familiar to me as of course do the parts set in Glasgow.
How did you record yourself? I recorded this on my Samsung A50, sitting in an armchair in the...
2022-06-081h 15
Kickin it Forward PodcastEpisode 21: 6 In A Million w/Jackie StilesJackie Stiles told her 2nd-grade teacher she was going to be a professional basketball player. She was a rare talent on the basketball court and was able to have an amazing career. In this interview, we discuss how she is overcoming being 6 in a million for a rare ocular cancer. If you want to donate to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund visit: www.KayYow.com
2022-03-0730 min
Kickin it Forward PodcastEpisode 21: 6 In A Million w/Jackie StilesJackie Stiles told her 2nd-grade teacher she was going to be a professional basketball player. She was a rare talent on the basketball court and was able to have an amazing career. In this interview, we discuss how she is overcoming being 6 in a million for a rare ocular cancer. If you want to donate to the Kay Yow Cancer Fund visit: www.KayYow.com
2022-03-0730 min
Beautifully Melanated PodcastMoney talks - is it a Friend or a Foe?In this episode, Kay, Karen, and Sarah talk money! What is your relationship with and attitudes towards money? Join us for this discussion. Jingle: @iamaliyahjaydeWe welcome our guest, Jackie Stewart, Founder and Director of Funancial Training and Consultancy Ltd. Jackie can be contacted on Instagram @funancial13 or by email at info@ftandconsultancy.comWe mention a book in our podcast, it is ' Over coming Under earning' by Barbara Stanney.
2022-03-0645 min
The Cultural CovenJackie KayJoining Nicola Roy in The Cultural Coven this week is the award-winning poet, novelist, playwright, and former Scottish Makar, the brilliant Jackie Kay. In this fun and expansive conversation, Jackie speaks about her poetry and creative process, her role as Scottish Makar, adoption, being politically active from a young age, and the racism she experienced growing up as a young black woman in Bishopbriggs. Plus many hilarious anecdotes and a fantastic creative challenge too! ----more---- The Cultural Coven is a fortnightly podcast series that explores the lives of some of Scotland's leading arts and cultural figures through conversation (and a b...
2022-01-191h 13
BookwormJackie Kay: “Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend”Jackie Kay’s “Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend” is a terrific mixture of memoir and biography.
2021-10-2130 min
New Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenBessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie KayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend Author: Jackie Kay Narrator: Jackie Kay, Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues. There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on st...
2021-09-2810 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentBessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie KayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509087 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend Author: Jackie Kay Narrator: Jackie Kay, Adjoa Andoh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 24 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues. There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on...
2021-09-2810 min
Start the WeekJackie Kay on Bessie SmithScotland’s former National Poet Jackie Kay celebrates the tempestuous life of the great blues singer, Bessie Smith. Born in Tennessee in 1894 Bessie was a street singer before she made it big at a time of racial violence and segregation. Jackie Kay remembers growing up as a young black girl in Glasgow and she tells Kirsty Wark how she idolised this iconic singer. In Time’s Witness the historian Rosemary Hill explores the historical shift in focus from the grand sweeping narratives of kings and statesmen to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. She argu...
2021-06-2142 min
Music MattersJackie Kay, Meredith Monk and Virtual NatureCredit: Library of Congress, Carl Van Vechten Collection [LC-USZ62-94955]Kate Molleson talks to Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay about the extraordinary life of the pioneering blues singer Bessie Smith, and asks what Bessie's blues can tell us a century on. Kate also hears from American composer Meredith Monk about the recurring nature of the big themes of her work, from plagues to dictatorships, and we hear about the piece she’s currently working on, Indra's Net – 10 years in the making and a work dedicated to humanity’s relationship with nature. Plus, as par...
2021-01-3043 min
The Fitzwilliam Museum PodcastsFanny Eaton, the Pre-Raphaelite Jamaican Muse – Jackie Kay: In My Mind's Eye #4Jackie Kay describes her discovery of Fanny Eaton as two time worlds coming together with modern technology providing the portal which brought this black Victorian into her house. Fanny was born in Jamaica in 1835, and the graphite drawing of her by Simeon Solomon feels very vivid to Jackie, as if “she is right there”. Discussing Fanny’s life leads Jackie to talk about how we need more black work in our galleries, paintings of black people or by black people who have been hidden from history, thoughts we hear developed in Jackie’s poem: “Fanny Eaton, the Pre-Raphaelite Jamaican Muse”
2020-11-1819 min
The Pandemic PorchcastJackie Dreyer: España, Exploration, EffectJackie talks us through what it was like to transition back into living in the US as the pandemic unfolded.
Read about her time in Spain: https://blog.rosettastone.com/how-to-make-working-abroad-work-answering-spains-call/
2020-11-1152 min
That Black Theatre PodcastThat Black Theatre Podcast: Black Women Time,1980s -1990s, Jackie Kay, Valerie Mason-John and Lynette GoddardThis week, we discuss the position of Black women playwrights in the 1980s and 1990s. We talk to Professor Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway University) about the politics of representation and Black lesbian and queer playwrights, including Jackie Kay and Valerie Mason-John. We talk about Jackie Kay’s Chiaroscuro, which looks at sisterhood and the plurality of Black women’s experiences. We also include a clip and discussion from Valerie Mason-John’s play, Sin Dykes, which discusses inter-racial lesbian relationships, BDSM and legacies of racial trauma.Email archive@nationaltheatre.org.uk Social @nationaltheatre Refe...
2020-11-0954 min
Book Off!Douglas Stuart and Jackie Kay (Most writers are a bit mad)Poet and writer Jackie Kay goes head to head with debut novelist Douglas Stuart in this episode of Book Off! They discuss the importance of understanding our history, how Glasgow fuels and inspires their work and how most writers are a little bit mad. Douglas discusses his Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Shuggie Bain, and Jackie talks about her new play, The Lamplighter as well as recommending some books they have recently read.In the book off, they pit Quentin Crisp (The Naked Civil Servant) against Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) - but who...
2020-09-1546 min
The Art of Work10. Jackie Kay, poet, playwright, novelist and Makar (Scottish poet laureate) on poetry in dark timesJackie Kay is a multi-award-winning poet, playwright and writer of memoir and fiction. She's an MBE and a CBE, Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Chancellor of the University of Salford. But she's also the Makar, or national poet for Scotland. Every baby born in Scotland gets a poem by her in their baby basket. Through lockdown, she has brought the role to a global stage with her Makar to Makar series online. In this moving and deeply personal conversation, she talks about her own emotional struggles during the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and how poetry can help...
2020-08-1758 minSaturday LiveJackie KayJackie Kay is the national poet of Scotland and has taken her Makar duties seriously. She has written a weekly poem during lockdown, brought art into people’s homes with the broadcast Makar to Makar and written about the Black Lives Matter protests. She joins Richard Coles and Bridgitte Tetteh to discuss the timely reissue of her play The Lamplighter which follows five characters who are sold into the British slave trade.Emily Kolltveit was the lead singer of a goth metal band for nearly a decade before she joined the priesthood. Her tour schedule saw her pe...
2020-08-081h 24
The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His ShedJackie KayIf the poets of the past sat in their garrets dipping their quills in ink and waiting for inspiration to strike, our current Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has a more mundane and domestic arrangement. From his wooden shed in the garden, surrounded on all sides by the Pennine Hills and the Pennine weather, he scratches away at his reworking of the comic medieval poem The Owl and the Nightingale. Any distraction is welcome, even encouraged, to talk about poetry, music, art, sheds, sherry, owls, nightingales and to throw light on some of the poem's internal themes. Jackie...
2020-05-061h 03
5x15Poetry is life - Jackie KayJackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. Fiere was shortlisted for the Costa award and her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. Red Dust Road (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the London Book Award, and was shortlisted for the JR Ackerley prize. Her third collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, was praised by The Guardian as ‘rank[ing] among the best of the genre'. She was awarded an MB...
2020-01-2714 min
5x15Poetry is life - Jackie KayJackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. Fiere was shortlisted for the Costa award and her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. Red Dust Road (Picador) won the Scottish Book of the Year Award, and the London Book Award, and was shortlisted for the JR Ackerley prize. Her third collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, was praised by The Guardian as ‘rank[ing] among the best of the genre'. She was awarded an MB...
2020-01-2714 min
Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIBCelia Anderson, Jackie Kay and Christopher ScottToday we’re exploring life’s long and winding road ...
Celia Anderson transports us to Cornwall for a stroll down to '59 Memory Lane'. (Starts at 1.10)
Jackie Kay traces her roots along ‘The Red Dust Road’. (16.45)
Christopher Scott reflects on his career as a Talking Book narrator, and how it changed his life. (28.00)
And we return to Celia Anderson for the books of her life. (46.30)
2019-09-0657 min
Loose EndsJackie Kay, Nish Kumar, Christopher Biggins, Blue Rose Code, Amy Lou, Arthur Smith, Clive AndersonClive Anderson and Arthur Smith are joined by Christopher Biggins, Nish Kumar and Jackie Kay for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Blue Rose Code and Amy Lou.Producer: Sukey Firth.
2019-08-1736 min
Royal DishA little slice of London in the LouIf you miss the London vibe, or even if you’ve never been across the pond, there’s a little slice of London right in St. Louis.Brandie Piper and Kay Quinn sat down for a chat and a spot of tea with the owners of the London Tea Room, Pat Richardson and Jackie James. Pat and Jackie also talked about how they ended up running a little London shop so far from home.Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.Send us your thoughts, comments and topic suggestions to podcas...
2019-06-0700 min
British Theatre Guide podcastJackie Kay's Red Dust Road runs from Edinburgh to ManchesterJackie Kay is the current Makar, the Scottish national poet, whose 2010 memoir, Red Dust Road, is to be adapted for the stage by Tanika Gupta for a co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland and HOME Manchester, which will open at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2019. BTG Editor David Chadderton spoke to Jackie at HOME Manchester about the subject of her book, her quest to find her birth parents (she was adopted as a baby and brought up in Glasgow), one in Scotland and the other in Nigeria, and what she is hoping for from the...
2019-05-1032 min
Meet Me at the MuseumJackie Kay and Hollie McNish at Glasgow Women's LibraryNational Poet for Scotland Jackie Kay takes fellow poet Hollie McNish along to Glasgow Women's Library, where they delve into a rich collection of artefacts, artwork and materials tracing women's history through the ages. Inside they talk to staff about the origins of the library and discuss issues of women's representation across society, education and the arts, while also reflecting on the important role that public art and literature plays in shaping the way we see ourselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-04-2236 min
Married With HorsesMWH 031: Jymmy Kay CoxThis episode was a great conversation with our friend, Jymmy Kay Cox. Jymmy Kay is a wonderful person, life-long horsewoman, former WPRA President, Barrel Racer, and lifelong friend of Jackie and her family. It was a really good talk about life, horses, the WPRA, and powerful and determined women. We love JK and really enjoyed our conversation. I bet you will as well! Thanks so much for joining us and be sure to tell your friends!! This podcast is something DIFFERENT. It's something that horse and rodeo enthusiasts can listen to a few hours a week and...
2018-11-141h 40
Only ArtistsJackie Kay meets Lubaina HimidPoet and novelist Jackie Kay meets Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid.Jackie Kay is currently the Scottish Makar or poet laureate. Her first collection, The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991, and drew on her own experience as a black child, adopted at birth by a white couple. Since then she has written prize-winning poetry, stories and fiction, as well as a memoir, Red Dust Road, about tracing and finding her birth parents. In 2017 Lubaina Himid became the first black woman to win the Turner Prize – and its oldest winner, at the age of 63. Her paintings an...
2018-10-2428 min
Festival 201802. Jackie KayOne of Scotland's most celebrated writers, reading and talking about her new collection Bantam.
'Jackie Kay depicts a world of grief, joy, love and humour in the sparest terms' (The Guardian). Read the full review here
Sponsored by BRM
(Apologies for the poor recording quality)
2018-07-0159 min
Podcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival02. Jackie KayOne of Scotland’s most celebrated writers, reading and talking about her new collection Bantam. ‘Jackie Kay depicts a world of grief, joy, love and humour in the sparest terms’ (The Guardian). Read the full review here Sponsored by BRM (Apologies for the poor recording quality)
The post 02. Jackie Kay appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.
2018-07-0100 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival05. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Jackie KayShowcasing an anthology in which poets and novelists retell the stories of asylum seekers who have suffered at the hands of Britain’s policy of ‘indefinite detention’. In Refugee Tales, poets and novelists retell the true stories of asylum seekers who’ve suffered at the hands of Britain’s policy of ‘indefinite detention’, in the form of a...
The post 05. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Jackie Kay appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.
2018-07-0100 minFestival 201805. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Jackie KayShowcasing an anthology in which poets and novelists retell the stories of asylum seekers who have suffered at the hands of Britain's policy of 'indefinite detention'.
In Refugee Tales, poets and novelists retell the true stories of asylum seekers who’ve suffered at the hands of Britain’s policy of ‘indefinite detention’, in the form of a modern-day Canterbury Tales. Introduced by Anna Pincus, a co-organiser and a founder of Refugee Tales with readings by Patrick Gale and Jackie Kay. Jackie Kay reads 'The Smuggled Person's Tale' from Volume II of the series and Patrick reads his never-before-heard tale which will be...
2018-07-0156 min
World Book ClubJackie Kay: TrumpetThis month World Book Club talks to Scottish poet Laureate Jackie Kay about her award winning novel, Trumpet.When legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody dies an extraordinary secret is revealed, one that he shared in life only with his beloved wife, Millie. On learning the truth about his father, their adopted son Colman is devastated and becomes easy prey for a tabloid journalist. Besieged by the press and overwhelmed with grief, Millie withdraws to their remote seaside home where she seeks solace in treasured memories of her fiercely private marriage. The reminiscences of those who knew Joss...
2018-02-0448 min
Listen To This Spellbinding Full Audiobook — Perfect On The Go.Bantam by Jackie KayPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/220503to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Bantam
Author: Jackie Kay
Narrator: Jackie Kay
Format: mp3
Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
Release date: 11-16-17
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Family
Publisher's Summary:
2017-11-161h 22
North Cornwall Book FestivalKatharine Norbury in conversation with Jackie KayFilm editor Katharine Norbury's bestselling debut, 'The Fish Ladder, is one of those books that is hard to categorise. Part memoir, nature study, meditation on family and part travelogue, it tells how she seeks consolation on the death of a child by following the Humber to its source but pursues a parallel metaphorical quest for the woman who gave her up at birth. Katharine will be in conversation with Jackie Kay, whose birth mother also gave her up for adoption
2016-10-2458 min
Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018Jackie KayKirsty Young's castaway is the poet and writer Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Her father worked for the Communist Party and her mother was the Scottish secretary for CND. She began to write seriously at the age of 17 when recovering from a moped accident, and while reading English at the University of Stirling she became a feminist and politically active in the arena of gay and lesbian rights and...
2016-10-2336 min
Desert Island DiscsJackie KayKirsty Young's castaway is the poet and writer Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Her father worked for the Communist Party and her mother was the Scottish secretary for CND. She began to write seriously at the age of 17 when recovering from a moped accident, and while reading English at the University of Stirling she became a feminist and politically active in the arena of gay and lesbian rights and...
2016-10-2336 min
CppCastRobotics DevelopmentRob and Jason are joined by Jackie Kay from Marble to discuss the use of C++ in the Robotics industry and some of the unique challenges in Robotics development.
After spending her childhood wanting to become a novelist, Jackie switched over from writing stories to writing code during college. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and went on to work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation for two years, supporting Gazebo, a physics simulator for robotics R&D, and ROS, an open source application framework for robotics development. She recently started as an...
2016-10-191h 01
CppCastRobotics DevelopmentRob and Jason are joined by Jackie Kay from Marble to discuss the use of C++ in the Robotics industry and some of the unique challenges in Robotics development.
After spending her childhood wanting to become a novelist, Jackie switched over from writing stories to writing code during college. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 2014 with a Bachelor's in Computer Science and went on to work at the Open Source Robotics Foundation for two years, supporting Gazebo, a physics simulator for robotics R&D, and ROS, an open source application framework for robotics development. She recently started as an...
2016-10-191h 01
The EssayJackie Kay - Private Joseph KayIn a week of broadcasts tracking the 100th anniversary of the first week of the Battle of the Somme, Radio 3's Essay series is featuring five new poems written in response to the battle. The poems have been commissioned by 14-18Now and these programmes will broadcast the poems for the first time and also hear from the poets about their inspiration and writing. 4th July: Paul Muldoon: July 1st 1916, With the Ulster Division
5th July: Yrsa Daley-Ward: When your mother calls you, come.
6th July: Bill Manhire: Known Unto God
7th July: Jackie Kay: Private Joseph...
2016-07-0612 min
2016-04-011h 03
21 Revolutions Podcast – Glasgow Women's Library21 Revolutions Podcast: Jackie KayIn the nineteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Jackie Kay reads her 21 Revolutions pieces, Undercoat, Model House and Ingrid McClements' Papers, and talks about her inspiration behind the work.
2014-03-2100 min
Medicine UnboxedVOICE - Jackie Kay and Jo Shapcott - IMAGINED VOICEThe Imagined Voice - Jackie Kay and Jo Shapcott in conversation with Sam Guglani.
2013-11-2843 min
Medicine UnboxedVOICE - Jackie Kay - Red Dust RoadJACKIE KAY was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow, a heritage she explored in Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her natural parents. She is one of Britain’s best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. She has won the Signal Poetry Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and was the British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year for her collection of short stories Wish I Was Here.
2013-11-2403 min
Medicine UnboxedVOICE - Jackie Kay - These are not my clothesJACKIE KAY was an adopted child of Scottish/Nigerian descent brought up by white parents in Glasgow, a heritage she explored in Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her natural parents. She is one of Britain’s best-known poets, appearing frequently on radio and TV programmes on poetry and culture. She has won the Signal Poetry Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and was the British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year for her collection of short stories Wish I Was Here.
2013-11-2401 min
Book Slam PodcastBook Slam Podcast 52 (with David Nicholls, Jackie Kay, Kyla La Grange and Stephen K Amos)The 52nd Book Slam podcast concludes the most overblown spell of coalitionary self-congratulation since Dave and Nick first tickled each other's fancy. In this case, we continue to celebrate the launch of 'Too Much Too Young: Book Slam Vol. II', with contributors David Nicholls and Jackie Kay reading from their brand new short stories; plus Stephen K Amos introducing his brilliant memoir, 'I Used To Say My Mother Was Shirley Bassey', and live music from Kyla La Grange. Elliott is probably Clegg, Patrick is probably Compo.
2013-01-0833 min
FaberBooks1999 | Margaret Kirk née Baxter by Jackie KayRead by Lyndsey Marshal, 'Margaret Kirk née Baxter' is Jackie Kay's contribution to Jubilee Lines, a new poetry anthology edited by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, marking the Diamond Jubilee. With a poem for each of the years of the Queen's reign, Jubilee Lines offers both a unique portrayal of the times in which we have lived, and an essential portrait of today. The poems celebrate the way we speak, the way we chronicle, the way we love and fight, honour and remember.
2012-05-2102 min
Enjoy Quantity of Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseTrumpet - Jackie KayListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: TrumpetAuthor: Jackie KayNarrator: Cathleen MccarronFormat: UnabridgedLength: 9:28:33Language: EnglishRelease date: 02-01-2012Publisher: W.F. HowesGenres: Fiction & Literature, GeneralSummary:When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.
The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife...
2012-02-019h 28
The Guardian Children's Books podcastGuardian children's books podcast: Jackie Kay talks about writing for young people and reads a poemJackie Kay talks to children's books site member Luke Shore about her half-Nigerian, half-Scottish upbringing and her work.
2011-09-2907 min
Book Slam PodcastBook Slam Podcast 32 (with Howard Jacobson,Kirstenana, Jackie Kay and a free audiobook for every listener!)The 32nd Book Slam podcast buys into postmodern identity crises in the company of Man Booker Prize-winner, Howard Jacobson, author of the downright fabulous, 'The Finkler Question', and celebrated poet and novelist, Jackie Kay, author of, 'Red Dust Road', the funniest misery memoir this side of Blair's 'Journey'. There's top live music from Kirstenana and a free audiobook for all listeners courtesy of Audible and the most shameless sellout since that meerkat took the corporate buck. Elliott is funny, Patrick takes the money.
2011-02-0736 min
Edinburgh International Book FestivalJackie Kay
A captivating hour of poetry from Jackie Kay, a Book Festival favourite whose events regularly sell-out, this being no exception. Listen to her words, revel in the language. Definitely one to listen to again and again.
2010-06-1000 min
Edinburgh International Book FestivalJackie Kay
An hour of pure pleasure with multi-talented poet, playwright, novelist, storywriter, children's author and broadcaster, Jackie Kay. In this 2008 event she discusses her latest collection of poetry Darling, which gets to the heart of love with exquisite literary skill.
2010-06-1000 min