Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | From Revolution To Idyll, Mothertongue | 20081124 | Poet and translator George Szirtes reflects on leaving Hungary after the 1956 revolution. |
02 | Hackney Adolescence | 20081125 | Writer and academic Ziauddin Sardar reflects on the racism he encountered in London. |
03 | On Not Being Able To Cross The Road | 20081126 | Novelist Gillian Slovo reflects on arriving in England as an adolescent. |
04 | A Rigor Mortis Of The Tongue And Other Earthly Things | 20081127 | A young Zimbabwean, newly arrived in London, struggles to make connections. |
05 | Bread Heap And A Dreamer | 20081128 | Story about a prisoner who refuses to give in to his torturers. |