As the developers close in, mushroom seller Gary remembers being cleared out of a slum when he was a child. Watch

Cultural diversity and global reach.

I’ve come to believe that we’re living through a golden age of English literature in the UK. The present cultural diversity of our writers – and that includes those who are white British – gives to our literature a multiplicity of perspectives, a newness, an energy, an unpredictability and a global reach that is unique in our lifetimes and our history. More

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fly in League with the Night (Tate Britain, 2 December 2020 – 31 May 2021) Review

Queen Charlotte’s Afro… https://writersmosaic.org.uk/reviews/bridgerton/

A three year project to create and build WritersMosaic, a platform for all UK writers of colour (and none)… I couldn’t be more proud to have done it! https://writersmosaic.org.uk/

Hear tell of the psychopathology of answering machines… Listen

My Talisman as a writer is the Yoruba Horseman I picked up in a London junk shop, because we recognised each other at once. Watch

Dipo Agboluage – the great British-Nigerian satirical playwright tells all. An irrepressible rebel who lost his courage, but gained his humanity…. Enjoy.  Listen:

So many different voices just to get through the day! Me and Michael Rosen off with yiddish and yoruba faeries when we ought to have been modern Londoners. Listen