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Podcast: Blacklisted Conversations
Episode: TBB Talks to ... Leah Harvey, star of The National Theatre's Small Island
Description: Rising star Leah Harvey takes a leading role in the National Theatre's production of 'Small Island' as 'Hortense'. TBB Talks to her to discover how she approached developing the character ...Adapted from Andrea Levy's Orange Prize Winning novel Small Island follows the journey Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 – the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury.Adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson, Small Island follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie lon...