Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years
Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry - A Rigor Mortis of the Tongue and Other Earthly Things
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years. A young Zimbabwean, newly arrived in London, struggles to make connections.
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Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry - Bread Heap and a Dreamer
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years. Story about a prisoner who refuses to give in to his torturers.
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Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry - From Revolution to Idyll - Mothertongue
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years. Poet George Szirtes reflects on leaving Hungary after the 1956 revolution.
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Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry - Hackney Adolescence
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years. Writer and academic Ziauddin Sardar reflects on the racism he encountered in London.
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Afternoon Reading - Points of Entry - On Not Being Able to Cross the Road
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years. Novelist Gillian Slovo reflects on arriving in England as an adolescent.
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