Winsome Pinnock - Plays, Pianos, and Inspiring Parents

Calm Down Dear

English - July 22, 2020 13:25 - 1 hour - 142 MB
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Previous Episode: Ep. 8 - Evanna Lynch - Acting, Activism, and not so Normal People

Next Episode: Ep. 10 - Jessica Cottis - Opera, Old Masters, and Lepidopterology

Our ninth episode sees Sarah getting to chat again to one of her favourite interviewees ever - the award-winning and much beloved playwright, Winsome Pinnock.

Often referred to as "the godmother of black British playwrights", she was the first black British female to have a play produced by the Royal National Theatre. You might have heard her recent play Rockets And Blue Lights as part of BBC Radio 3's Lockdown Theatre, but did you know that it all started with a childhood slapstick double act prancing around in school? Nope, us neither.

Definitely one of our most inspiring guests to date, we discuss in depth the nuances in conversation on black identity and British identity, and the obvious overlap therein, and of course Becky and Sarah catch up on their week's antics with an unsurprising focus on the outrageously extraordinary I May Destroy You. Oh and they play "Guess What's In The Bin Bag". Because what else would they be doing.

Links:

James Fenton - I’m In Paris With You - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-paris-with-you/

Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

Adrian Mitchell - This Be The Worst - https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=75755

I May Destroy You - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000jyxy/i-may-destroy-you

Michaela Coel - The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odusP8gmqsg

Rockets and Blue Lights - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k1kj

Rockets and Blue Lights review - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jun/13/rockets-and-blue-lights-review-bbc

Peer Gynt - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peer-Gynt-play-by-Ibsen

JMW Turner - Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) - https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31102

The Mimic Men essay - https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/128519/10/07_chapter%203.pdf

Bliss by Katherine Mansfield - http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/assets/KM-Stories/BLISS1918.pdf

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