Sara Collins on Una Marson
Trailblazing Jamaican broadcaster Una Marson is celebrated for founding a landmark radio programme. But why has her poetry been neglected? Sara Collins goes in search of her voice.
Trailblazing Jamaican broadcaster Una Marson is rightly celebrated for being the 麻豆社's first black producer and founding an innovative radio programme. But why has her own poetry been neglected? Author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, and herself no stranger to the airwaves, Sara Collins goes in search of Marson's voice.
75 years ago, the revolutionary Caribbean Voices strand was established on the 麻豆社's Overseas Service. Every week for over a decade, it gave exposure to emerging writers from the region such as Sam Selvon, Derek Walcott and VS Naipaul - many for the first time. Delving into the 麻豆社's Written Archives, five writers explore five important literary figures who contributed to the programme throughout the 1940s and 50s. The result is part archival treasure hunt, part cultural history and part personal reflection on the people behind the landmark institution.
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham
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- Mon 28 Jun 2021 22:45麻豆社 Radio 3
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