"Talking Turkeys" by Benjamin Zephaniah : A Christmas Poem performed by the Write ON! team

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In this special festive podcast you can hear the write on team performing their version of Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem “Talking Turkeys”

In “Talking Turkeys” by Benjamin Zephaniah you heard the voices (in order of appearance) of:

Eithne Cullen

Ellie Blake

Madeleine White

Palak Tewary

Amber Hall

Holly King

Farzana Hakim

Esther Ogunbajo

Diya Padiyar

Julie Dexter

Allan Lochead

Lili Hristova

Chris Gregory

Lisa Roullier

Lena Smith

Juneha Chowdhury

Mirabel Lavelle

Mohammed Rahman

Irina Goncherenko

And Claire Buss

The poem was reproduced with the kind permission of Benjamin Zephaniah and publishers Puffin.

The audio poem was mixed and edited by Palak Tewary and you can see a video version of the poem on our website, pentoprint.org.

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our listeners who celebrate it a very merry Christmas and a happy 2023.  Join us next week for the final showcase of the year which is selected by Julie Dexter.  The podcast will be available on 27th December.

We’re always delighted to read your contributions so if you’d like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to:

https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen To Print.