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Writing a romcom

New author Taylor-Dior Rumble talks about her #Merky Book and how to write a novel.

It鈥檚 National Storytelling Week, so new author Taylor-Dior Rumble drops in to share a reading from her first novel, The Situationship. It鈥檚 being published by Stormzy鈥檚 Merky Books in the summer and is about something many of us will be familiar with.

De-Graft also catches up with Joy Battick, who now has two life-sized bronze statues of herself at Brixton Railway Station. Her first statue, installed in 1986, is thought to be one of the first public sculptures of a black British person in England.

And De-Graft talks to Chelsea Bailey - a 大象传媒 journalist who鈥檚 in Memphis, in the US - about Tyre Nichols. He died three days after he was beaten by police following a traffic stop. Video footage from police bodycams have been released and shared online. They are graphic, so De-Graft gets tips from Seyi Akiwowo - the CEO of Glitch - on controlling what you see online and digital self-care.

Presenter: De-Graft Mensah
Producer: Kamilah McInnis
Researchers: Paige Neal-Holder and Star McFarlane
Sound: Kamilah McInnis and Dave O鈥橬eill
Editor: Alison Gee

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  • Fri 10 Feb 2023 04:00

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