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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Natasha Gordon. Bessie Head. Rwanda Representation and Reality
Description: As her award-winning debut play, Nine Night, comes to London's West End, Natasha Gordon tells Anne about the grieving ritual that binds in the Jamaican diaspora.
Nine Night at Trafalgar Studios, London, until February 23rd On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Bessie Head's first novel, two of her titles, When Rain Clouds Gather (1969) and Maru (1971), have just been republished. Head's influence and creativity are discussed by journalist Audrey Brown and literary scholar Louisa Uchum Egbunike. Black Earth Rising, Hugo Blick's serial on the Rwandan Genocide and the fraught and fractured nature of justice...