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Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed is one of America's greatest and most prolific living writers. Now, aged 86, he is writing his first music. Lindsay Johns joins his first recording session.
Ishmael Reed is one of America's greatest and most prolific living writers - but aged 86 he is writing his first music.
Lindsay Johns travels to his home in Oakland, California, to join his first recording session, and find out what motivates him to keep writing.
Between his home, his local bookstore, the city's downtown, restaurants and historical waterfront, Lindsay understands how much this city, and the West Coast spirit continues to animate Reed's writing, and his literary activism.
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