大象传媒

Pauline Black, actor, writer and lead singer with ska band the Selecter chooses her favourite words of music, prose and poetry including works by Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Barack Obama and Joni Mitchell. These are the pieces that helped shape her identity as a young black woman growing up with adoptive parents in Essex in the 1950s, a place she describes as 'hardly a seething hotbed of multiculturalism'.

Ray Shell reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Claire Benedict reads from Passing by Nella Larsen
Pauline Black sings Little Green by Joni Mitchell
Claire Benedict reads Still I Rise by Maya Angelou and an excerpt from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Pauline Black sings Strange Fruit
Ray Shell reads an extract from Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Claire Benedict reads from The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Producer: Maggie Ayre.