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Poetry and music with Professor Jackie Kay CBE

Craig is joined by the multi-award-winning poet and playwright Jackie Kay CBE, to chat about her long-awaited new poetry collection, May Day.

Craig is joined by the multi-award-winning poet and playwright Jackie Kay CBE, to chat about her long-awaited new poetry collection, May Day.

They also discuss her search for her birth father, growing up with activist parents, and how her love of artists like Bessie Smith and Nina Simone has shaped her words.

Later in the show, Craig brings you a banging Trunk of Funk, and you get to choose the Closing Credits! E-mail; craig@bbc.co.uk

3 hours

Music Played

  • Buzzcocks

    Everybody's Happy Nowadays

    • EMI.
  • BODEGA

    Cultural Consumer III

    • Chrysalis.
  • Ladyhawke

    Dusk Till Dawn

    • CD SINGLE.
    • MODULAR.
    • 1.
  • Roots Manuva

    Again & Again

    • CD SINGLE.
    • BIG DADA.
    • 1.
  • The Ting Tings

    That's Not My Name

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Columbia.
  • Underworld & Kettama

    Fen Violet

    • Smith Hyde Prodcutions.
  • Herbie Hancock

    Rockit

    • Columbia.
  • Moloko

    The Time Is Now

    • Echo.
  • B.D.B.

    CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A

    • CHROMA.
  • Killer Mike

    Exit 9 (feat. Blxst & Offset)

    • MICHAEL.
    • Concord.
  • M.I.A.

    Boyz

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
  • Waxahatchee

    Bored

    • ANTI-.
  • First Serve

    Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) (6 Music Session, 14 Mar 2012)

  • Fontaines D.C.

    Starburster

    • XL Recordings.
  • Nina Simone

    Mississippi Goddam

    • Philips.
  • Future Utopia

    Interplanetary Signs

    • 70Hz Recordings.
  • The Go鈥怗o鈥檚

    We Got The Beat

    • Stiff.
  • Lucy Rose

    Over When It's Over

    • Communion Group.
  • Greg Wilson & Che Wilson

    Mighty Cloud

  • Suki Waterhouse

    My Fun

    • Sub Pop Records.
  • Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Boys Noize

    Compress / Repress [MIXED]

    • Milan/Sony Music.
  • J Dilla

    Don't Cry

    • Donuts.
    • Stones Throw Records.
    • 18.
  • Gossip

    Listen Up

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Back Yard Recordings.
  • Pet Shop Boys

    Dancing Star

    • Parlophone.
  • Wolfgang Valbrun

    Where Is The Peace

    • Jalapeno Records.
  • Groovemaster

    The Gotta Haveya Body (Uncle Jam Fix)

  • TC And The Groove Family

    Stand Strong

  • Mdou Moctar

    Imouhar

    • Matador.
  • The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

    Bellbottoms

    • Orange.
    • Shout!.
    • 17.
  • Say She She

    Astral Plane

    • Karma Chief.
  • I. JORDAN

    Close To You

    • Ninja Tune.
  • Thin Lizzy

    Don't Believe A Word

    • Vertigo.
  • Ezra Collective

    Ajala

    • Partisan Records.
  • Fat White Family

    What's That You Say

    • Domino Recordings.
  • King Hannah

    Davey Says

    • City Slang.
  • Joe Smooth

    Promised Land

    • Deep Heat (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

Broadcast

  • Fri 26 Apr 2024 13:00