Episode 174
174: Afia Atakora, Sara Collins, Andrea Levy and Eric Motley
Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB
June 19, 202057m 46s
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Show Notes
Afia Atakora explores Black Lives in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War in her new novel Conjure Women (Starts at 1.04)
We follow a servant and former slave girl from a Jamaican plantation to Georgian London in The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (16.00)
We travel back in time to hear from the late Andrea Levy about her book The Long Song and how her father arrived in the UK on the Empire Windrush (31.14)
And travel from racially charged Alabama to the Oval Office with Eric Motley (40.45)
Plus there's a return to Afia Atakora for the books of her life. (49.00)
We follow a servant and former slave girl from a Jamaican plantation to Georgian London in The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (16.00)
We travel back in time to hear from the late Andrea Levy about her book The Long Song and how her father arrived in the UK on the Empire Windrush (31.14)
And travel from racially charged Alabama to the Oval Office with Eric Motley (40.45)
Plus there's a return to Afia Atakora for the books of her life. (49.00)