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LT has got a ticket for Glastonbury, but he's refused a lift, there's a rail strike and now his car has broken down.
Maybe that's a relief. Does he even really want to go? He's out of his comfort zone. He's definitely missed Ziggy Marley and the programme says Wolf Alice are about to go on. Whoever they are.

Should he try and get there for Little Simz? The journey to the festival takes on an unexpected meaning.

Poet, playwright and historian Edson Burton creates a fictional response to a story in this week's news.

Edson has maintained a parallel career as a poet, academic and writer for theatre, radio & screen. His acclaimed contemporary fantasy trilogy for 大象传媒 Radio 4 stars Don Warrington as the enigmatic Deacon. Edson's most recent collaboration with Bristol Old Vic and Bristol鈥檚 Colston Hall concerns the 19th Century African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. with a cast including Kwame Kwei-Armah; chaplain to the House of Commons, Rose Hudson Wilkins; and Danny Sapani.

Edson鈥檚 academic specialisms include Black Religiosity, Bristol and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Black History in the USA, Cultural Continuities between Africa & the New World, Race and Representation.

Edson is a regular commentator on radio and television, including Countryfile, Hairy Bikers, Books that Made Britain, There is Black in the Union Jack, Civilisations Stories: The Remains of Slavery and The Antiques Road Show.

Reader...Don Gil茅t.
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery