Jackie Kay, Nicola Barker, Scottee
Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word. Guests include poet and Scottish makar Jackie Kay, novelist Nicola Barker and performance artist Scottee.
Poet and Scottish Makar Jackie Kay reads from her new poetry commissioned for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park's new exhibition 'Tread Softly'. As well as her poetry, Jackie is the author of the novel 'Trumpet', which won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the memoir 'Red Dust Road' (Picador)
In Nicola Barker's experimental new novel H(A)PPY (William Heinemann) she is attempting to obliterate the narrative. Nicola has been longlisted three times for the Booker prize and her novel 'Wide Open' won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
'Ode to Leeds' is a new play by young writer Zodwa Nyoni. Based on her experiences as part of Leeds Young Authors, 'Ode to Leeds' is at the West Yorkshire Playhouse from 10th June.
Performance artist Scottee is a regular fixture on Radio 4's 'Loose Ends' as well as the cabaret circuit. His work often examines gender, body image and masculinity. In a new commission for The Verb, 'Felt Tips', he writes about the relationship he had with his mother as a small boy.
Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Jessica Treen.
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Jackie Kay
Poet Jackie Kay explains how she found the way into writing poems in response to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park exhibition, and the delights of the untranslatable scots phrase 鈥榶e ken鈥�.
Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker likes reading books that challenge her, and also challenges herself when it comes to building worlds like the one she created for her new novel H(A)PPY, where everyone is eternally young, eternally knowledgeable and eternally happy, until cracks start to appear鈥�
Zodwa Nyoni
Playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni explains how her characters begin with playlists, and how casting actors as poets made her realise just how much she had learnt. Her new play 鈥極de to Leeds is on now at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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Scottee
Performance Artist Scottee celebrates his protective mother and celebrates strong working class women in a new piece that takes us back to the time when the safe way to smoke around children was to direct the smoke upwards.
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