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Arts & IdeasSam Selvon and The Lonely LondonersCaribbean migrants striving to make their lives in London are the focus of this 1956 novel by Samuel Selvon. Written in creolized English, it established him as an important Caribbean voice. In an event organised in partnership with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library, Shahidha Bari is joined by the poet Anthony Joseph, the writer Guy Gunaratne and by Susheila Nasta who is a writer, critic and literary executor and representative for the Sam Selvon literary estate.Guy Gunaratne‘s first novel In Our Mad And Furious City won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, Jhalak Pr...2023-11-2144 min
The Amplify ProjectBlack Writers in their own words | The Titans of Black Publishing The Amplify Project. Black writers in their own words. We’ve invited writers for the stage, page and screen to tell us about themselves, their work, what inspires them and why they write. In this episode writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by three Titans of black british publishing. Margaret Busby CBE, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Verna Wilkins, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Susheila Nasta MBE, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_amplify_project/?hl=en-gb Facebook: https://www.face...2023-10-111h 13
The Conversation WeeklyExplaining the 2021 Nobel Prizes: how touch works, a better way to make medicine and the fiction of Abdulrazak GurnahSix prize announcements later, 12 men and one woman from 11 countries are now settling down to their new lives as Nobel laureates. In this episode, we delve into the scientific discoveries around touch and organic catalysts awarded the 2021 prizes in medicine and chemistry. And we talk to a friend and collaborator of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Tanzanian writer awarded the Nobel prize for literature.Featuring Kate Poole, associate professor in physiology, at the University of New South Wales in Australia, David Nagib, associate professor of chemistry at the Ohio State University and Susheila Nasta, emeritus professor of modern...2021-10-1444 min
On the Road with Penguin ClassicsThe Lonely Londoners with Susheila NastaSam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London. Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvonhttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.htmlEbook: https://books.apple.com/gb/boo...2021-02-251h 09
BridgesCastEpisode 5 - Let's Talk White AllyshipSocials
Rachel social profiles @ahpleader on twitter and youtube
John social profiles @JohnIsHappier on twitter
Sean social profiles @SeanPeart on twitter SLTea time on youtube
Mish social profiles @lecturerMish on twitter
Bridges on Twitter @bridgesselfmgmt
BAME OT UK on Twitter @BAMEotUK
Reading list that Mish has put together
White Privilege by Kalwant Bhopal
Superior by Angela Saini
Natives by Akala
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
The Battle of Brick Lane by AK Azad Konor
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Queen Mary History of EmotionsThe CityThe German sociologist Georg Simmel famously claimed that ‘one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd’. Hetta Howes and Charlie Williams take a walk through London to explore this classic idea of loneliness and the many ways of being alone in a city. They hear from Matthew Beaumont about the long tradition of ‘nightwalkers’, a mantle applied to vagrants, sex workers, migrants and bohemians, all searching for different opportunities in the city after dark. Hetta speaks to Leo Coleman about the development of the industrial city and the experiences of isolation that come with it, before being gu...2020-10-2636 min
FluffFluff Take Over: Bad FormFluff Listeners! We are delighted to hand over the microphone this episode to the vibrant and SUPER INTERESTING Amy and Sophie of @badformreview ! For our 25th episode you are getting Double Sagittarius energy 🔥 🔥 ! Check out their discussion points below- we are hooked in already! Thank you Bad Reform for bringing your work to Fluff“What percentage of children’s books published in the UK in 2017 had a main character who was not white? How can we talk about Black, Asian, Arabic and other non-white people without lumping them together in yet another acronym? What are the right and wr...2020-06-191h 00Arts & IdeasAnne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera. Jarman's GardenAuthors Anne Fine and Romesh Gunesekera are Fellows of the Royal Literature Society who signed the Register on the same day. In the first of a series of conversations with writers who would have been sharing a stage at a literary festival, they talk to Shahidha Bari.
Plus a postcard from 2020 New Generation Thinker Diarmuid Hester on the saving of Derek Jarman’s house and garden - also the subject of Sunday’s Words and Music which you can find on BBC Sounds and here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jdz0 The Norfolk and Norwich Fest...2020-05-2145 min
Show & TellShow and Tell #2 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Nasta / Howes / Rafiq / Shapiro / EdmundsonShow and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: bit.ly/showandtellqm. This episode features Wasafiri magazine editor Susheila Nasta, Medieval broadcaster Hetta Howes, podcaster Raifa Rafiq, researcher Emma Shapiro and puppeteer Edie Edmundson. Full biogs below.
The show is introduced by Beverley Stewart and hosted by Charlie Pullen from the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary.
Charlie Pullen
Charlie Pullen is a PhD...2020-03-011h 15Arts & IdeasThe shadow of empire and colonialismHistorian William Dalrymple, Wasafiri editor Susheila Nasta and novelist Romesh Gunesekera join Rana Mitter for a conversation looking at the East India company, the socialist economic policies and language battles in Ceylon in the 1960s before it became Sri Lanka and the way writing from around the world has reflected changes of attitude to post colonial history.Sri Lankan-born British author Romesh Gunesekera has just published his ninth novel, Suncatcher, depicting two boys, Jay and Kairo, growing up in 1964, who overcome their different backgrounds to become friends at a time when Ceylon is on the brink of...2019-12-0549 min
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfPartition, 70 years on: what have we learnt from the division of India? [Audio]Speaker(s): Lady Kishwar Desai | The 70th year of Indian independence inevitably recalls Partition and the violent division that followed it. In a lecture that considers the lessons for other countries facing similar divisions, Kishwar Desai talks about establishing the Partition Museum in Amritsar, and considers whether partition and division are ever reparable. Lady Kishwar Desai (@kishwardesai) is an author and columnist and chair of the Arts and Cultural Heritage Trust, which is responsible for creating the Partition Museum, dedicated to the memory of the Partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947. Susheila Nasta MBE is currently Professor of Modern and...2017-11-221h 27
Great Writers Inspire at HomeEditors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingProfs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. Dr Henghameh Saroukhani considers the literary importance of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub poetry, and Dr Florian Stadtler looks at recent Asian-British cinema.2017-08-251h 39Great Writers Inspire at HomeEditors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingProfs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. Dr Henghameh Saroukhani considers the literary importance of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub poetry, and Dr Florian Stadtler looks at recent Asian-British cinema.2017-08-251h 39