Zakia Sewell - Journalism, Jazz, and just loads of recommendations!

It's our first big normal show of the year and as we totter towards the end of series 2, we're chatting with one of the creatives whose work has crept up most throughout Calm Down Dear so far. The brilliant broadcaster behind the BBC's My Albion and the selector responsible for NTS Radio's Questing not to mention a tonne more, we couldn't be more delighted to be joined by Zakia Sewell if we tried, and she more than came through chatting all things from her passion for 1970's avant-garde jazz to missing heaps of cigarette ends by the studio now she's working from home. Whatever floats your boat Zakia!

As it's our first full ep back, we've got a tonne of new recommendations for you as well in an episode bursting at the seams with books, TV and podcasts we've been devouring to get us through this most miserable of lockdowns in the best way we know how - enthusiastically.

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Shownotes

Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life - www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-subversive-brilliance-of-a-little-life/amp 

Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires - https://www.minjinlee.com/book/free-food-for-millionaires/ 

Superstore - https://www.netflix.com/title/80061132?s=i&trkid=13747225 

It’s A Sin - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/its-a-sin/on-demand/68719-001 

Just Kids by Patti Smith - theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/13/just-kids-patti-smith-biography 

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst - .theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/10/fiction.alanhollinghurst 

Radio 4’s Bookclub - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006s5sf 

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - https://www.elizabethstrout.com/books/olive-kitteridge 

Louis Theroux’s Grounded with FKA Twigs - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p091pg54 

Questing on NTS - https://www.nts.live/shows/questing-w-zakia 

Jeremy Deller - https://www.jeremydeller.org/

My Albion - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pffy 

My Amey and Me - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g3fh

Honest Jon’s - https://honestjons.com/shop/latest_100_arrivals 

Speaking Sabar - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h2db 

Zakia’s website - https://www.zakiasewell.co.uk/ 

UKG Reloaded - https://soundcloud.com/platform/ukg-reloaded-an-original-boiler-room-podcast 

Music Feeds Festival - 28th and 29th January (Presented by Sarah Gosling) - https://everybodybelongshere.com/event-music-feeds/ 

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