• The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta

  • Feb 25 2021
  • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
  • Podcast

The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta

  • Summary

  • Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.

     

    Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

    https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.html

    Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-lonely-londoners/id913000990?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_lonely_londoners&ls=1

     

    Susheila Nasta

    https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html

    https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta

     

    Wasafiri

    https://www.wasafiri.org/

     

    The Pepperpot Centre

    https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/


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