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The rise, fall and rise again of audio cassettes, poet Luke Wright, film director Shaka King

The wonderful world of audio cassettes - once a world-conquering technology; poet Luke Wright on his latest collection; film director Shaka King on Judas And The Black Messiah

The recent death of Lou Ottens - the inventor of audio cassettes who later went on to work on the development of CD technology - gives us the opportunity to look back at the glory days of cassettes, their subsequent decline and the latest unexpected return to fashion, with music journalists Laura Barton and Jude Rogers.

Young British poet Luke Wright describes himself as 'a louche poet (who) loves a bit of bathos'. He has a new collection of work, The Feelgood Movie Of The Year, with poems written over the past few years and right up to Covid lockdown, which brought his full touring diary to an abrupt standstill. How has life changed, and where does a poet find inspiration when their everyday world shrinks overnight?

Shaka King is the director of Judas and the Black Messiah, a new film starring Daniel Kaluuya which tells the story of the political life and assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton at the age of 21 in 1969. King discusses the FBI's determined campaign to disrupt the powerful unifying movement and their infiltration of the Illinois chapter by a counter-intelligence operative.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Jerome Weatherald

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Luke Wright

Luke Wright

The Feelgood Movie Of The Year by is published next Monday 15th March

Shaka King

Shaka King
Judas and the Black Messiah is available to rent at home on premium video on demand from 11th March聽

Photo shows:聽(L-r) Darrell Britt-Gibson as Bobby Rush, Daniel Kaluuya as Chairman Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield as Bill O鈥橬eal in Judas and the Black Messiah (c) Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.聽

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