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Best podcasts about Colin Grant

Latest podcast episodes about Colin Grant

explore words discover worlds
WritersMosaic: Remember Me

explore words discover worlds

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2024 46:05


WritersMosaic and Colin Grant will be joined by three award-winning authors: Chitra Ramaswamy, Ingrid Persaud, and Nicholas Rankin. Discussing the idea of memory and writing.

London Review Bookshop Podcasts
Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 59:36


Aimé Césaire's masterpiece of exile and homecoming, Return to my Native Land – beautifully translated by John Berger – is now a Penguin Classic. To celebrate, Jason Allen-Paisant (who has written the introduction for the new edition) and Colin Grant discuss the poem. Allen-Paisant's most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet), won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Colin Grant is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, his most recent book is a memoir, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be (Jonathan Cape). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Hole Story Podcast
The Quixote Club - Connecting, Inspiring, and Changing Lives Through Golf - w/ Colin Grant

The Hole Story Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 33:46


Sign up for Par 3 Thursdays. A weekly newsletter sharing three great things to check out in golf. - https://bestball.substack.comThis week, Head Golf Professional Colin Grant joins us on The Hole Story Podcast to share the history, mission, and incredible golf of the Quixote Club. We dive deep into the remarkable transformation of the Sunset Country Club into the Quixote Golf Club, guided by the visionary efforts of Greg and Lewis Thompson, who have driven community-centered missions and made significant investments in Sumter.Uncover the distinctive features that make Quixote stand out, from its intricate dog legs and perched greens, and why the course chose a windmill for its logo. Learn why this new Carolina links course is a must-visit for golf enthusiasts. Colin also shares his joy of mentoring budding golf professionals, recounts heartwarming stories from his golfing adventures, and reveals his bucket list rounds and dream foursome featuring iconic legends.With picturesque views, state-of-the-art facilities, and the promise of using every club in your bag, this episode provides a hole-in-one insight into what makes Quixote Golf Club a must-visit.https://www.quixoteclub.com/BestBall Links:•https://BestBall.com•https://linktr.ee/BestBallThe Hole Story Podcast Sponsors:•Holderness & Bourne - https://hbgolf.com - Enter "BESTBALL" for complementary shipping.•Caledonia Golf & Fish Club and True Blue Golf Club - Two Play Special - https://truebluegolf.com•Western Birch Golf Co. - Enter "BESTBALL" in the shipping cart for a free gift with your order - https://westernbirch.comInterested in becoming a sponsor of The Hole Story Podcast? Email info@bestball.com.

Blackout Podcast
Mary Beth Carty - Musician / Folklorist / Artist

Blackout Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 39:37


An accordionist with a bag of pocket-sized instruments & a dedication to cultural ecology, Mary Beth Carty fuses traditional songs, instrumental tunes, & songwriting. With a live show that runs the gamut of emotions, transporting us from the heights of dance-paced ecstasy to the calm of contemplative airs, she has had the opportunity to tour in North America, Europe, and Africa. Most recently, Mary Beth has performed at the Celtic Colours International Festival, FrancoFest Halifax, and Festivals Acadiens et Créoles in Lafayette, Louisiana. “She got the crowd singing along. It was something else!” - Bill Roach, CBC.Mary Beth released her second solo album, “Crossing the Causeway” in November 2022. Since then the album has made several appearances on the Earshot! College Radio Charts in Canada has reached No. 1 on Richard Gilman's Folk Radio DJ Chart, and No. 3 on the Folk Alliance International radio play chart. It has also been nominated for two 2024 Canadian Folk Music Awards.Mary Beth's debut solo album, 2017's Les biens-nommés, earned nominations at the Nova Scotia Music Awards and the ECMA's. It features original, accordion-fueled songs in French and English, with Donald MacLennan on violin and the Melchin brothers on double bass and percussion.As a member of the former duo Bette & Wallet, Mary Beth was nominated Traditional Singer of the Year at the 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards. The duo toured extensively and released two albums, Voici… and Électrique. Their most popular song, “Squeegees,” transforms a public domain French-Canadian song into a humorous, bilingual anthem about urban winter hardships.In addition to her work as a solo artist, Mary Beth is in demand as a guitar accompanist for Celtic fiddlers and has performed with many of the best, including Cape Breton's Ashley MacIsaac, Colin Grant, and Chrissy Crowley. She is known for her distinct, rhythmic style, keen ear, and mastery of the unusual DADGAD tuning. Mary Beth is also a square dance caller and dance instructor and has done extensive research on dances from communities all over Eastern Canada.Learn more @stompinmary

Talk Radio Europe
Colin Grant – I'm black so you don't have to be: A memoir in eight lives...with TRE's Selina MacKenzie

Talk Radio Europe

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 17:02


Colin Grant – I'm black so you don't have to be: A memoir in eight lives...with TRE's Selina MacKenzie

Ghouls Trip
82: Scotland Pt. 2 - Greyfriars Kirkyard

Ghouls Trip

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 36:39


E82: Greyfriars Kirkyard is one of Scotlands most famous graveyards. It holds many notable burials, beautiful examples of classic "Memento Mori" graveyard art, and is home to the "Black Mausoleum" and its rumored poltergeist... Check out the links below for our Patreon, Merch, and More! https://linktr.ee/ghoulstrippodcast https://www.patreon.com/ghoulstrippodcast https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/147752736?asc=u https://ghouls-trip-podcast.creator-spring.com www.instagram.com/ghoulstrippodcast http://twitter.com/ghoulstrippod https://www.facebook.com/GhoulsTripPodcast/ Contact us at ghoulstrippodcast@gmail.com (We would love to hear your own personal paranormal encounters, episode suggestions, or thoughts you have on a topic we have covered!) Music by Ivy - made in Bandlab. Sources for this episode were: https://ewh.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Greyfriars-Kirkyard.pdf https://greyfriarskirk.com/history/ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/632836/greyfriars-kirkyard-ghostly-history http://www.eatdrinktravel.com/most-haunted-graveyard-in-the-world-greyfriars-kirkyard/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/george-mackenzie-s-mausoleum https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Colin+Grant+was+talking+to+the+spirit+world+when+he+unexpectedly...-a060820879 

English Academic Vocabulary Booster
3931. 189 Academic Words Reference from "Colin Grant: How our stories cross over | TED Talk"

English Academic Vocabulary Booster

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2023 168:50


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Sounds Atlantic
Episode 253: Encore Newfoundland and Labrador's ever popular trad band “Rum Ragged”.

Sounds Atlantic

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2023 59:38


Encore Newfoundland and Labrador's popular trad band “Rum Ragged” (originally broadcast on November 17th. 2019). Interview with Mark Manning, Aaron Collis and Colin Grant to showcase their award-winning album “The Thing About Fish”.https://www.facebook.com/ron.moores.18

East Coast DNA
Apartment Talk with Mary Beth Carty [DECEMBER 2022]

East Coast DNA

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2023 32:48


Join Darcy Walsh for a chat with Mary Beth Carty about her new releases and upcoming performances with a couple musical demonstrations along the way. Accordionist, guitarist, and player of pocket-sized instruments, Mary Beth Carty of Antigonish, Nova Scotia possesses a magical voice that has the power to rouse a room to sing on choruses like… “Aliens are Nice!” or “Hashbrowns!” or other such inspirational words. After spending some years in cities and on the road, Mary Beth Carty returned to Antigonish County and rediscovered her love for the diverse cultures, beautiful places, and unique people of the area. From 2017 to 2019 she lived in Cape Breton Island and made her home in the city of Sydney where she became a regular on the ceilidh scene. Recorded with some of the best musicians from Eastern Nova Scotia, Crossing the Causeway, her second album came out on Friday November 25th and can be found on BandCamp, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, and Deezer. Guest musicians are Bradley Murphy, Colin Grant, Morgan Toney, Mac Morin, Hilda Chiasson, Howie MacDonald, Donnie Calabrese, Joe MacMaster, Chrissy Crowley, Keith Mullins, Anna Ludlow, Heather MacIssac, & John Pellerin. Get your copy of Crossing the Causeway at BandCamp: https://marybethcarty.bandcamp.com/al... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/east-coast-dna/message

London Review Bookshop Podcasts
Colin Grant & Michael Rosen: I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 55:24


In I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be (Cape) Colin Grant, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, director of WritersMosaic and author of Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, A Smell of Burning: A Memoir of Epilepsy and Bageye at the Wheel, evokes the experience of growing up in Britain as the child of Jamaican parents. In the words of Bernardine Evaristo ‘Colin Grant writes about the characters in his family with the mischievous, dramatic flair of a natural storyteller. This is a compelling and charming read.' Grant was in conversation with author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist Michael Rosen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Arts & Ideas
Ghosts of Caribbean History

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2023 44:50


Hungry Ghosts is the new novel set in colonial Trinidad by Kevin Jared Hosein. Colin Grant has written a memoir about his Jamaican family. A new art project, Windrush Portraits, is a collaboration between Mary Evans and Michael Elliott with communities in both Kingston, Jamaica, and Southampton, UK. Shahidha Bari looks at the way ghosts of history haunt these artworks. Producer: Robyn Read Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein is out now. Colin Grant's memoir I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be is out now and you can find out more about his work at https://colingrant.info/ Colin is also Director of the Royal Literary Fund website Writers Mosaic https://writersmosaic.org.uk/ This is an online magazine and developmental resource focused on UK writers of the global majority. Windrush Projects will see special billboards on display across Jamaica throughout February 2023 and the artists Mary Evans and Michael Elliott will make new artworks, created in collaboration with communities that will be presented during October 2023 (Black History Month in the UK) in both Southampton, UK and Kingston, Jamaica. You can find a collection of conversations exploring different aspects of Black History on the Free Thinking programme website. It includes recent episodes about Phillis Wheatley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Amílcar Cabral and the Victorian circus performer Pablo Fanque https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp

London Review Bookshop Podcasts
Margo Jefferson & Colin Grant: Constructing a Nervous System

London Review Bookshop Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 63:22


Margo Jefferson talks to Colin Grant about her latest book, Constructing a Nervous System. It's a memoir unlike any other, taking as its focus each ‘influence, love and passion' which have gone to shape Jefferson as a person: her family, musicians, dancers, athletes and artists, and one which, in Maggie Nelson's words, ‘takes vital risks, tosses away rungs of the ladder as it climbs'. Vivian Gornick describes it as ‘one of the most imaginative – and therefore moving – memoirs I have ever read'.Find our upcoming events, online and in-person, here: lrb.me/upcomingevents See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Morton Fraser's Podcasts
Employee ownership an option for succession planning?

Morton Fraser's Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 18:45


Are employee-owned businesses the answer to strong companies and a more resilient Scottish economy?  Join Partner, and Head of Corporate at Morton Fraser as he chats to Colin Grant from Time to Adapt and Sean Elliot of Network ROI about their expereinces.  This podcast forms part of Morton Fraser's Corporate Clarity series. You can find previous video episodes on our website. 

Morton Fraser's Podcasts
Employee ownership an option for succession planning?

Morton Fraser's Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 18:45


Are employee-owned businesses the answer to strong companies and a more resilient Scottish economy?  Join Partner, and Head of Corporate at Morton Fraser as he chats to Colin Grant from Time to Adapt and Sean Elliot of Network ROI about their expereinces.  This podcast forms part of Morton Fraser's Corporate Clarity series. You can find previous video episodes on our website. 

Dope Black Dads Podcast
Black British Fatherhood

Dope Black Dads Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 50:52


In this episode Marvyn Harrison is joined by Marcus Ryder and Colin Grant. They cover Black British Fatherhood and how it has evolved from generation to generation. Marvyn, Marcus and Colin also discuss their experiences navigating the British workplace as a Black man. Dope Black Dads is a place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers with the aim of creating a safe digital space within the community. Join the conversation and the community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDadsInstagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us at hello@dopeblackdads.org or follow our conversations in-depth on our Facebook Group by searching 'Dope Black Dads'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dope Black Dads Podcast
Black British Fatherhood

Dope Black Dads Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 50:52


In this episode Marvyn Harrison is joined by Marcus Ryder and Colin Grant. They cover Black British Fatherhood and how it has evolved from generation to generation. Marvyn, Marcus and Colin also discuss their experiences navigating the British workplace as a Black man. Dope Black Dads is a place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers with the aim of creating a safe digital space within the community. Join the conversation and the community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDadsInstagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us at hello@dopeblackdads.org or follow our conversations in-depth on our Facebook Group by searching 'Dope Black Dads'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dope Black Dads Podcast
Black British Fatherhood

Dope Black Dads Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 50:52


In this episode Marvyn Harrison is joined by Marcus Ryder and Colin Grant. They cover Black British Fatherhood and how it has evolved from generation to generation. Marvyn, Marcus and Colin also discuss their experiences navigating the British workplace as a Black man.  Dope Black Dads is a place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers with the aim of creating a safe digital space within the community.  Join the conversation and the community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads  Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us at hello@dopeblackdads.org or follow our conversations in-depth on our Facebook Group by searching 'Dope Black Dads'.

Arts & Ideas
Caribbean art

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 44:56


Aubrey Williams, Horace Ové, Sonia Boyce, Lubaima Himid, Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Hurvin Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner and Alberta Whittle have works on show at Tate Britain as part of an exploration of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, and British artists who have looked at Caribbean themes and heritage in their work. Shahidha Bari's guests include the curator David A Bailey, New Generation Thinker Sophie Oliver and academic Asha Rogers. David A Bailey is co-curator of Life Between Islands, Caribbean British Art from 1950 at Tate Britain which runs until 3 April 2022 Lubaima Himid's exhibition runs at Tate Modern until 3 July 2022. You can find a discussion about the Black British Art movement in this playlist exploring Black History on the Free Thinking website - it also includes conversations about the writing of Maryse Condé, Aimé Césaire, with Kei Miller and Colin Grant, and a discussion of sugar https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08t2qbp Sophie Oliver is a BBC AHRC New Generation Thinker and Lecturer in Modernism at the University of Liverpool. You can hear her Essay on Jean Rhys's dress here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v870 Asha Rogers is Associate Professor in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945. Producer: Ruth Watts

Necessary Rebels
'England is no Mumma to me' with Author Colin Grant

Necessary Rebels

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2021 21:52


In this episode, we have the incomparable Colin Grant. He takes us on a journey through the early days of his career.  Shared emotional stories of some of the people in his books. Sit back and relax. Trust me when I say you are in good company here. Colin is an author of five books. They include: Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey; and a group biography of the Wailers, I&I, The Natural Mystics. His memoir, Bageye at the Wheel, was shortlisted for the Pen/Ackerley Prize, 2013. Grant's history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning, was a Sunday Times Book of the Year 2016. As a producer for the BBC, Grant wrote and directed several radio drama documentaries including A Fountain of Tears: The Murder of Federico Garcia Lorca; and A History of the N Word. Colin is also Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Director of WritersMosaic, an innovative online platform for new writing. Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, was a BBC radio 4 Book of the Week and a Daily Telegraph Book of the year 2019. His latest memoir, I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2022.You can find Colin on Twitter and Insta. 

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
TLS Summer Library: Part IV

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2021 49:33


Throughout the summer, we are revisiting the very best of the podcast during the last year.In this episode - it's movie week; the author Colin Grant discusses Steve McQueen's Small Axe and the Academy Award-winning Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, Yoojin Grace Wuertz talks us through the Korean American Dream film Minari, and Clifford Thompson reviews Regina King's directorial debut One Night in Miami - which sees Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown and Cassius Clay gather for a heated debate.A special subscription offer for TLS podcast listeners: www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/podProducer: Ben Mitchell See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Your Broccoli Weekly
Your Broccoli Weekly Special: GENERATION WINDRUSH 1 & 2

Your Broccoli Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2021 46:18


AWARDED GOLD FOR BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS AT BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS. GENERATION WINDRUSH  PART 1: ‘Generation Windrush' is a two-part podcast documentary series hosted and produced by Jaja Muhammad.  This podcast takes a deep dive into the fate and feelings of the Windrush Generation, then and now. Guest contributors to the series are Patrick Vernon OBE, Allyson Williams MBE and Colin Grant, who will be sharing their insights, stories and reflections on what we can learn from the generation, the impact of losing their identity and the systems that played their part in the subsequent scandal. PART 2: This podcast delves into the Windrush Scandal that broke in 2018, and what impact the 'hostile environment' created for many people from the windrush generation. What actually went wrong, when did it start? who was really responsible? And what happens next for people who are part of this Windrush Generation? Guest contributors to the second part of series are political activist Patrick Vernon OBE, immigration lawyer Jacqueline Mckenzie and journalist Amelia Gentleman. They shared what part they had to play to publicise one of the biggest scandals involving the government. Credits: Host / Producer Jaja Muhammad Executive Producer Tony Phillips Sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown

The Essay
Colin Grant on VS Naipaul

The Essay

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2021 13:58


Nobel laureate Naipaul began his career working in radio for the BBC, and it is also where writer Colin Grant met him towards the end of his life half a century later. How had the giant of Trinidadian literature changed during that time since being told to "write like a West Indian" and quickly becoming the precocious editor of Caribbean Voices? This polemical exploration celebrates his contributions, as well as examining his many contradictions. Seventy-five years ago, the revolutionary Caribbean Voices strand was established on the Overseas Service by trailblazing Jamaican broadcaster Una Marson. Every week for over a decade, it gave exposure on radio to emerging writers from the region such as Sam Selvon, Derek Walcott and George Lamming - many for the first time. Delving into the BBC's Written Archives, five writers go in search of five important figures who contributed to the programme throughout the 1940s and 50s, each of whom changed the literary landscape in a different way. This series is part archival treasure hunt, part cultural history and part personal reflections on the people behind a landmark institution. Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Jane Austen and abolition

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2021 49:10


This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author of ‘The Making of Jane Austen’, to discuss new research into the Austen family’s ties with slavery; Colin Grant, critic and writer, introduces Writers Mosaic, a new platform for writing and recordings; and Mary Beard considers the Roman love of temple-building and Euripides as reimagined by a poet and a comic-book illustrator.Jane Austen & Cowritersmosaic.org.uk/The Trojan Women: A comic book by Anne Carson and Rosanna BrunoThis episode of The TLS podcast is sponsored by Curtis Brown Creative. Go to www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk to find out more about their creative writing courses. Use code YOURWRITINGSUMMER for £20 off any six-week course. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Behind The Spine
S2E23 The Writers Mosaic: Colin Grant on Reshaping Our World View

Behind The Spine

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 27:42


Writers are becoming increasingly aware that in order to create a true reflection of society in their work, diversity and representation need to be placed firmly at the top of the agenda. For a long time the voice of the minority has been silenced, and though the landscape is improving, plenty more work still needs to be done. Colin Grant is director of the Writers Mosaic, a new initiative funded by the Royal Literary Fund, which is giving a platform to underrepresented voices across the UK. In this episode Colin explains how the Writers Mosaic is here to stay, a long term project mandated to tear down the many barriers facing writers of colour. Find out why we must remember our history when writing stories of modern day adversity, learn how everyone in society benefits from improved diversity, and discover the importance of reading stories from authors of all backgrounds. var podscribeEmbedVars = { epGuid: 'behindthespine.podbean.com/e917f7a0-08a5-3f7e-aa37-2419eb93f735', rssUrl: 'https://feed.podbean.com/behindthespine/feed.xml', backgroundColor: 'white', font: undefined, fontColor: undefined, speakerFontColor: undefined, height: '600px', showEditButton: false, showSpeakers: true, showTimestamps: true };

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2021 49:17


This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Joyce Carol Oates to talk about the minimalist beauty in the photographs of Walker Evans, and his austere approach to his art. Colin Grant discusses the new film Nomadland, a blend of fact and fiction about US citizens who take to the road when they realize they cannot afford to grow old...and we look through a science fiction dictionary and check up on the latest writing by robots.Walker Evans: Starting from scratch by Svetlana AlpersNomadland, on Hulu - UK release April 2021 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I Know This Guy...With Norm Farrar
Bageye at the Wheel w/ Colin Grant - Ep.42 - I Know This Guy With Norm Farrar

I Know This Guy...With Norm Farrar

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 60:44


On this week’s episode we have BBC radio host and author Colin Grant. Colin digs into some of the stories that have come out in his novels and how he managed to find his way into writing. They also discuss the value of hypno-therapy and confronting the past.Join Our Community!I Know This Guy ClubProduced by Hayden FarrarTheme Music by Hayden Farrar

I Know This Guy...With Norm Farrar
Bageye at the Wheel w/ Colin Grant - Ep.42 - I Know This Guy With Norm Farrar (Part 2)

I Know This Guy...With Norm Farrar

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2021 59:13


Part 2 of 2On this week’s episode we have BBC radio host and author Colin Grant. Colin digs into some of the stories that have come out in his novels and how he managed to find his way into writing. They also discuss the value of hypno-therapy and confronting the past and the impact of the Windrush Generation.Join Our Community!I Know This Guy ClubProduced by Hayden FarrarTheme Music by Hayden Farrar

History Extra podcast
Editor’s pick: the Windrush generation

History Extra podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2020 41:52


In this episode from our archive, Colin Grant tells the stories of postwar immigrants who moved to Britain from the CaribbeanIn this archive episode, historian, author and broadcaster Colin Grant discusses his book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, which tells the stories of postwar immigrants who moved to Britain from the Caribbean. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Neither victims nor perpetrators

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 48:41


This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Colin Grant, the author of Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush generation, to discuss Small Axe, a series of films by Steve McQueen that centres on Black British life between the 1960s and 80s; and the author and musician Wesley Stace tells the story of the “real” James Bond, a celebrated ornithologist whose "dull" name was poached by Ian Fleming. Plus, the TLS's Fiction editor Toby Lichtig talks to Douglas Stuart, the winner of this year’s Booker Prize for fictionSmall Axe, BBC One, BBC iPlayerShuggie Bain, by Douglas StuartThe Real James Bond: A true story of identity theft, avian intrigue and Ian Fleming, by Jim WrightSubscribe to The TLS at https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

VINTAGE BOOKS
Voices of the Windrush Generation ᛫ Colin Grant

VINTAGE BOOKS

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2020 28:40


As part of our celebrations for Black History Month we are celebrating and spotlighting the stories from the book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant. Here's a special extract from the book which draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. Find out more about Homecoming here: http://bit.ly/Homecoming_CGListen to the Vintage Books Podcast episode when we chatted to author Colin Grant here or search for 'The history we don't hear about ᛫ Colin Grant ᛫ Vintage Books Podcast'.Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: http://bit.ly/VintageNewsletter ᛫ Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://bit.ly/OrbitingaDistantPlanet See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The History Hour
British black history special

The History Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2020 50:35


We present five eyewitness accounts of moments in British black history. Including the late Sam King remembering the voyage of the Empire Windrush, plus Britain's first black headteacher Yvonne Conolly, Dr William Lez Henry on confronting the Far Right in the battle of Lewisham, Reggae star David Hinds on fighting the nightclub colour bar in 1970s Birmingham and Trix Worrell on the creation of the pioneering and hugely popular TV comedy Desmond's. Max Pearson is joined by Colin Grant, the writer, broadcaster and author of Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation. Photo: Newly arrived Jamaican immigrants on board the 'Empire Windrush' at Tilbury, 22nd June 1948: (Douglas Miller/Keystone/Getty Images)

5x15
Colin Grant - Homecoming- Voices of the Windrush generation

5x15

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2020 14:12


Colin Grant is the author of Homecoming (2019); Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (2008), I and I: The Natural Mystics Marley, Tosh and Wailer (2011), Bageye at the Wheel (2012). Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their own words, we witness the transition from the optimism of the first post-war arrivals to the race riots of the late 1950s. Homecoming is an unforgettable portrait of a generation, which brilliantly illuminates an essential and much-misunderstood chapter of our history. Colin Grant is an author and teaches creative non-fiction writing, most recently for Arvon and Sierra Nevada College. Grant is also a historian, Associate Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies and producer for BBC Radio. He joined the BBC in 1991, and has worked as a TV script editor and radio producer of arts and science programmes on radio 4 and the World Service. He has written and directed plays including The Clinic, based on the lives of the photojournalists, Tim Page and Don McCullin. Grant has also written and produced several radio drama-documentaries. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Cricket Badger Podcast
159: Colin Babb - '1973 and Me - The England v West Indies Series and a Memorable Childhood Year'

Cricket Badger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2020 50:54


Author Colin Babb is the guest on this edition of the Cricket Badger Podcast as he joins James Buttler to talk about his new book '1973 and Me - The England v West Indies Test Series and a Memorable Childhood Year'. To write the book, Colin spoke to Dennis Amiss, Clyde Best, Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird, Keith Fletcher, Maurice Foster, Lance Gibbs, Colin Grant, Frank Hayes, Ron Headley, Bernard Julien, Alvin Kallicharan, Simon Lister, Professor Joe Moran, Deryck Murray and Professor Clem Seecharan. The book covers the series but is more than that. It talks of Caribbean migration to Britain, wider perspectives on history, identity, music and politics, shared family experiences of television in the 1970s, a collection of memorable events, and interplay with the 1973 West Indies tour. The Podcast is brought to you in association with TVSportsBlog.com (http://tvsportsblog.com/) . Thank you very much for listening and supporting the podcast!  Contact the show via Twitter on @cricket_badger or email us at cricketbadger@hotmail.com. If you'd like to advertise on the Podcast drop us a line and we will send you our list of very competitive rates.

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Slave driver, the table is turn

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2020 56:03


Colin Grant on several hundred years of Jamaican excellence and dysfunction; fifty years since the death of E. M. Forster, Michael Caines considers Forster’s legacy as a novelist and critic; the poet A. E. Stallings on an Athens slowly emerging from lockdown The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the postcolonial predicament by Orlando Patterson See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christian Reformed Church of Wollongong - Sermons
Do You Understand Who Jesus Is?

Christian Reformed Church of Wollongong - Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2020 37:37


Sermon spoken by Colin Grant on the 15th March 2020. Bible Reading: Mark 8:1-26 Ending music by Joseph McDade

Your Broccoli Weekly
Your Broccoli Weekly Special: GENERATION WINDRUSH Part 1

Your Broccoli Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2020 21:57


‘Generation Windrush' is a two-part podcast documentary series hosted and produced by Jaja Muhammad. This podcast takes a deep dive into the fate and feelings of the Windrush Generation, then and now. Guest contributors to the series are Patrick Vernon OBE, Allyson Williams MBE and Colin Grant, who will be sharing their insights, stories and reflections on what we can learn from the generation, the impact of losing their identity and the systems that played their part in the subsequent scandal. Sound Design by Hana Walker-Brown

Your Broccoli Weekly
Your Broccoli Weekly Special: GENERATION WINDRUSH Part 1

Your Broccoli Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2020 21:57


‘Generation Windrush’ is a two-part podcast documentary series hosted and produced by Jaja Muhammad. This podcast takes a deep dive into the fate and feelings of the Windrush Generation, then and now. Guest contributors to the series are Patrick Vernon OBE, Allyson Williams MBE and Colin Grant, who will be sharing their insights, stories and reflections on what we can learn from the generation, the impact of losing their identity and the systems that played their part in the subsequent scandal. Sound Design by Hana Walker-Brown

Saturday Review
Ingmar Bergman, The Lighthouse, William Gibson, The Art, Design and future of Fungi, Art on the BBC

Saturday Review

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2020 56:51


Ingmar Bergman's 1966 film Persona has been adapted into a stage play and it is the opening production at the newly revamped Riverside Studios in London The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson is a black and white film set in a claustrophobic remote isolated lighthouse where the two keepers begin to rub each other up the wrong way William Gibson is a sci-fi writer whose latest novel Agency imagines a dystopian future world where time travel is possible but only virtually The Art, Design and Future of Fungi is an exhibition at Somerset House in London which brings together work by artists and designers, exploring mycophilia, magic mushrooms and fungi futures Art On The BBC is a new documentary series which delves into 60 years of arts coverage on BBC TV, exploring how TV portrayal has changed. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Meg Rosoff, Katie Puckrik and Colin Grant. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extra recommendations Meg: Jo Jo Rabbit film and Beryl at The Arcola Theatre Katie: Paris In The Spring CD on Ace Records Colin: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Tom: Cheer documentary on Netflix Photo: Beatrix Potter, Hygrophorus puniceus, pencil and watercolour, 7.10.1894, collected at Smailholm Tower, Kelso, courtesy of the Armitt Trust

History Extra podcast
The Windrush generation

History Extra podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2020 41:53


Historian, author and broadcaster Colin Grant discusses his recent book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation, which tells the stories of postwar immigrants to Britain from the Caribbean. Historyextra.com/podcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Free Word
My Father's House

Free Word

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 103:21


How do explorations of our personal histories inform our understanding of home? Rathbones Folio Prize and Ted Hughes Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus, multi-award-winning poet and memoirist Hannah Lowe and acclaimed writer, historian and producer Colin Grant have all written compellingly about their fathers’ experiences emigrating from Jamaica to the UK. How have they interpreted these shared, yet distinct, family stories in their work, and how has it shaped them as writers? Listen back as celebrated writers Raymond Antrobus, Hannah Lowe and Colin Grant explore stories of Caribbean fatherhood. In collaboration with Arvon. The event is introduced by Andrew Kidd, Arvon’s Chief Executive and Artistic Director. #WritingOurWayHome Twitter/Instagram/Facebook @freewordcentre

Sounds Atlantic
Episode No.58 Part 2: Rum Ragged

Sounds Atlantic

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 57:43


Newfoundland and Labradorian trad group “Rum Ragged” (Mark Manning, Aaron Collis and Colin Grant) visit to showcase their brand new release “The Thing About Fish”; featuring track by track coverage

Sounds Atlantic
Episode No.58 Part 1: Rum Ragged

Sounds Atlantic

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 55:35


Newfoundland and Labradorian trad group “Rum Ragged” (Mark Manning, Aaron Collis and Colin Grant) visit to showcase their brand new release “The Thing About Fish”; featuring track by track coverage.

VINTAGE BOOKS
The history we don't hear about ᛫ Colin Grant

VINTAGE BOOKS

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2019 29:18


Colin Grant talks about his passion to capture the stories of Windrush, and his incredible book Homecoming, which draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s.Take a closer look at the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1116148/homecoming/9781787331051.htmlFollow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooksSign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletterMusic is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jamaican Diaspora
Colin Grant

Jamaican Diaspora

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2019 26:15


Colin Grant is an author, historian and BBC radio producer; he has also worked as a script editor and produced several radio drama-documentaries. Jamaican Diaspora - www.JamaicanDiaspora.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jamaican-diaspora/support

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Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Patronizing writers of colour

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2019 43:42


As #PublishingSoWhite continues to shame publishers into diversifying their lists, Colin Grant discusses some of the anxieties and complexities beneath the surface; Andrew Motion on why he keeps returning to William Wordsworth; Kate Miller reads a new poem, "Turned-down"Wordsworth’s Fun by Matthew BevisThe Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their year of marvels by Adam NicolsonWordsworth’s Poetry: 1815–1845 by Tim Fulford See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Front Row
The return of Fleabag, Nikki Sixx on Motley Crue biopic, Oscars analysis

Front Row

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2019 28:06


The return of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's black comedy Fleabag: we preview the new series of BBC3's biggest success. The main character continues to battle with her family and her own self-destructive behaviour, but can Fleabag be as fresh and surprising as before? And because it'll be broadcast weekly, one episode at a time (after the news on BBC1) rather than being released as a box set for bingeing), we consider how viewers' watching habits are changing. American glam metal band Mötley Crüe sold more than 100 million albums in the 80s and the members led the ultimate debauched rock and roll lives. Now there's a Netflix biopic - The Dirt. We speak to bassist Nikki Sixx (who overdosed several times and once was even declared dead) and the band's manager Allen Kovac about their reputation and how they reflect on their time as "the world's most notorious rock band".Each year the Oscars throw up some surprises and there were quite a few raised eyebrows when last night's Best Picture was announced. Did Green Book really deserve to be crowned the best film of 2018? The writer and historian Colin Grant and film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh take us through the events of the night.Presenter: John Wilson Producer: Oliver Jones

The Documentary Podcast
'Gone to Foreign' from Jamaica

The Documentary Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2018 27:17


When someone in Jamaica emigrates to the UK, it is said they have 'gone to foreign'. Over the past 70 years several hundred thousand Jamaicans have done this, following in the footsteps of the so-called 'Windrush generation' who first arrived in Britain in the late 1940s. But the spirit of adventure and optimism those early pioneers bought with them has changed over the years and a recent political scandal now finds some of them unwanted and rejected by Britain. Following changes to immigration law and failing to comply with citizenship requirements, they have been designated illegal immigrants. On returning from holiday in the Caribbean, some of the children of the Windrush generation (now in their 50s and 60s) have been refused entry back to Britain, and others have been deported from Britain back to the Caribbean. For Crossing Continents, Colin Grant travels to Jamaica to meet two men who, despite having lived in the UK for decades, working and paying taxes, find themselves in limbo, trapped and unable to return to the place they call home. What happens when you are stranded in a place you were never really familiar with, an island which you have little memory of, and may not have returned to for half a century? Grant hears of their endeavour to return to the UK and how they have struggled to keep up hope in the face of a very painful and public rejection. Colin Grant reporting and producing. (Image: West Indian mother keeps the rain off her child with an umbrella, as they depart the Spanish passenger vessel Montserrat at Southampton docks Oct 1961 / Credit: Press Association)

Crossing Continents
'Gone to Foreign' from Jamaica

Crossing Continents

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2018 28:35


When someone in Jamaica emigrates to the UK, it is said they have 'gone to foreign'. Over the past 70 years several hundred thousand Jamaicans have done this, following in the footsteps of the so-called 'Windrush generation' who first arrived in Britain in the late 1940s. But the spirit of adventure and optimism those early pioneers bought with them has changed over the years and a recent political scandal now finds some of them unwanted and rejected by Britain. Following changes to immigration law and failing to comply with citizenship requirements, they have been designated illegal immigrants. On returning from holiday in the Caribbean, some of the children of the Windrush generation (now in their 50s and 60s) have been refused entry back to Britain, and others have been deported from Britain back to the Caribbean. For Crossing Continents, Colin Grant travels to Jamaica to meet two men who, despite having lived in the UK for decades, working and paying taxes, find themselves in limbo, trapped and unable to return to the place they call home. What happens when you are stranded in a place you were never really familiar with, an island which you have little memory of, and may not have returned to for half a century? Grant hears of their endeavour to return to the UK and how they have struggled to keep up hope in the face of a very painful and public rejection. Colin Grant reporting and producing.

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon
Too smart for our own good

Freedom, Books, Flowers & the Moon

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2018 40:42


Carl Miller, the author of The Death of the Gods, which deals with how power works and who holds it in the digital age, sheds light on how algorithms, originally devised as simple problem-solving devices, have become so complicated that no one, not even their creators, can control them; Kristen Roupenian points out the problem with an “unfailingly enthusiastic” compendium of twentieth-century female intellectuals (including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion): who is left out and why?; eighty-odd years ago, Zora Neale Hurston, now best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, interviewed Kossola O-Lo-Loo-Ay, the last known survivor of the Atlantic Slave Trade. As her book is finally published, Colin Grant joins us to tell us more Books The Death of the Gods: The new global power grab by Carl Miller Sharp: The women who made an art of having an opinion by Michelle Dean Barracoon: The story of the last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Arts & Ideas
Windrush. Forests in Art. South African Jazz

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2018 44:53


Colin Grant, Hannah Lowe and Jay Bernard discuss writing about Windrush 70 years on with Shahidha Bari. Plus Alexandra Harris looks at trees in art as part of Radio 3's Into the Forest season of programmes and Jonathan Eato and Nduduzo Makhintini discuss their research into South African jazz -- one of the subjects in the British Academy Summer Showcase.Colin Grant has written books including Bageye at the Wheel, A Smell of Burning, I & I Natural Mystics and Negro with a Hat.Hannah Lowe's poems include Ormonde, a specially produced chapbook charting the voyage of the 1947 SS Ormonde from Jamaica to the UK through the lens of her Chinese-Jamaican immigrant father, a passenger on the boat. Jay Bernard was awarded the 2018 Ted Hughes award for new poetry for Surge: Side A, an exploration of the 1981 New Cross fire. More information about Windrush is at http://www.windrush70.com/ Alexandra Harris is the author of books including Weatherland, Virginia Woolf, Modernism on Sea and Romantic Moderns.You can hear a Landmark discussion about Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway available on bbc.co.uk/FreeThinking and the The Royal Society of Literature is marking Dalloway Day at the British Library today.The British Academy Summer Showcase - a new free festival of ideas - runs June 22nd - 23rd at 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH . Opening times are 11am - 5pm with an evening opening on 22nd. And the South African Jazz Archive when it opens will be in Stellenbosch.Producer: Zahid Warley

Seriously…
Queens of Chapeltown

Seriously…

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2017 29:57


After the violence directed at black people in Nottingham and Notting Hill in the 1950s, and the naked racism expressed in Smethwick during the 1964 general election, a group of pioneering West Indians came up with a simple and defiant riposte: Carnival. In Queens of Chapeltown, Colin Grant goes behind the scenes of Carnival to its Leeds West Indian HQ in Chapeltown - amidst the glue guns, sequins and feathers - to capture that moment of extraordinary transformation, 50 years on: the birth of a tradition which, for one weekend in August, would wash away the bad taste of anti immigrant sentiment with a burst of colour and flash of exuberance that would forever change Britain. Grant travels to Leeds to talk with the pioneers and celebrate the endurance and growth of Carnival. Produced and presented by Colin Grant.

Arts & Ideas
Free Thinking - Caribbean Culture.

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2017 45:25


Join Matthew Sweet in the Caribbean -- well, not literally but certainly intellectually. He'll be discussing the region's history with the cultural commentator, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, whose new book, Island People, is already being compared to V S Naipaul. Does it make sense to think of the Caribbean as a cohesive region rather than a collection of very individual islands? To help settle this question Matthew and Joshua are joined by Colin Grant, author of I & I - the Natural Mystics and the Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller who'll be reading from his acclaimed new novel, Augustown, and his Forward Prize Winning poetry collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. To round things off the actor and writer, Lavern Archer and the director, Anton Phillips will be in the studio to let you in on one of the stage's best kept secrets -- the wildly popular vernacular theatre from Jamaica that's been packing out the likes of the Manchester Opera House since the late Eighties. Kei Miller's novel is called Augustown. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's non fiction exploration is called Island People The Caribbean and The World. Colin Grant's book about Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer is called , I &I - The Natural MysticsProducer: Zahid Warley

You Can Do That Here
Ep.99 - Colin Grant, FigBytes

You Can Do That Here

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2016 31:43


Colin grew up in "The country," in the north of Scotland, an area very much like the Kootenays. From the age of four he can recall a strong bond between himself and nature. After an injury just prior to the 1988 Calgary Olympics derailed his ski racing career, Colin put his talents towards making the world a cleaner, greener and leaner place. His noble goal was to make sure his son could grow up in a world where he could tell the seasons by the snow starting the fall and the salmon spawning up river. He recently moved to Rossland,BC where he as co-founder he heads up sales and strategy. Figbytes, a robust, industry leading business that is helping everyone from countries to airports to universities achieve their sustainability goal. If he is successful in that, he may just get his lifelong goal of a cleaner and still snowy planet for his son.

Arts & Ideas
Free Thinking - Voices in Our Ears: Colin Grant, Josie Rourke, Charles Fernyhough, Clare Walker Gore

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2016 44:08


Colin Grant, author of a book exploring his brother's epilepsy, joins presenter Matthew Sweet, New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gore who writes about Wilkie Collins and Charles Fernyhough - who studies hearing voices. Plus director Josie Rourke on Joan of Arc on stage at the Donmar Warehouse and theatre critic David Benedict.St Joan by George Bernard Shaw starring Gemma Arterton is at the Donmar Warehouse in London from December 9th - January 18th. It will be broadcast live in cinemas in partnership with National Theatre Live on Thursday 16 February 2017 Charles Fernyhough is a Professor of Psychology at Durham University who has published The Voices Within: The history and science of how we talk to ourselves. Colin Grant's book exploring epilepsy is called A Smell of Burning. Clare Walker Gore is a New Generation Thinker researching Victorian literature at the University of Cambridge. New Generation Thinker is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find people who can turn research into radio programmes.Producer: Torquil MacLeod.

TEDTalks 아동과 가족
까다로운 아버지의 아들 | 콜린 그란트 (Colin Grant)

TEDTalks 아동과 가족

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2014 17:25


콜린 그란트는 평생동안 아버지의 세계와 그의 세계 사이에서 감정적인 경관 속을 항해했습니다. 영국에서 자메이카 부모님한테 태어난 그란트는 이민자 공동체 안에서 공유된 경험을 이야기하며 그를 거부한 아버지를 어떻게 용서하게 되었는지 되돌아봅니다.

TEDTalks Crianças e Família
Como nossas histórias se cruzam | Colin Grant

TEDTalks Crianças e Família

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2014 17:25


Colin Grant passou sua vida navegando o panorama emocional entre o mundo de seu pai e seu próprio. Nascido na Inglaterra de pais jamaicanos, Grant usa de histórias de experiências compartilhadas dentro de sua comunidade imigrante; e reflete sobre como encontrou perdão para um pai que o havia rejeitado.

TEDTalks Niños y Familia
El hijo de un padre difícil | Colin Grant

TEDTalks Niños y Familia

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2014 17:25


Colin Grant ha pasado toda una vida navegando por el paisaje emocional entre el mundo de su padre y el suya propio. Nacido en Inglaterra de padres jamaicanos, Grant se basa en historias de la experiencia compartida dentro de su comunidad de inmigrantes y reflexiona sobre cómo encontró el perdón para un padre que lo rechazó.

TEDTalks Vie familiale
Le fils d'un père difficile | Colin Grant

TEDTalks Vie familiale

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2014 17:25


Colin Grant a passé sa vie à explorer le paysage émotionnel entre le monde de son père et le sien. Né en Angleterre de parents jamaïcains, Grant s'appuie sur les histoires de l'expérience partagée dans sa communauté d'immigrants et raconte comment il trouva le pardon pour un père qui l'avait rejeté.

TED Talks Kids and Family
How our stories cross over | Colin Grant

TED Talks Kids and Family

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2014 17:25


Colin Grant has spent a lifetime navigating the emotional landscape between his father’s world and his own. Born in England to Jamaican parents, Grant draws on stories of shared experience within his immigrant community -- and reflects on how he found forgiveness for a father who rejected him.

Free Word
Tired of Being Black? A Child's-Eye View of Literature

Free Word

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2013 8:21


Gabriel Gbadamosi's novel 'Vauxhall' and Colin Grant's memoir 'Bageye at the Wheel' both feature child narrators who act as go-betweens between black and white worlds. In an evening at the Free Word Centre exploring how blackness can be both defining and limiting for authors, Colin, Gabriel and members of the audience spoke to us about the child characters from their favourite books who made an impression on their lives.

World Service Music Documentaries
Wheel And Come Again - 50 Years Of Jamaican Music

World Service Music Documentaries

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 30, 2012 41:03


Colin Grant explores the daring and innovative music that has come from Jamaica since its independence, 50 years ago.

Great Lives
Marcus Garvey

Great Lives

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2011 28:04


Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and Africa. Producer: Beth O'Dea.

The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2009
Caribbean voices - Part two

The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2009

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2009 23:27


Colin Grant reflects on the BBC's role in boosting Caribbean writing in the region 60 years on from the original broadcast of Caribbean Voices.

New Books in African American Studies
Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2008 73:52


Today we are happy to have Colin Grant on the show. Colin is that rare breed of writer who is also an excellent historian. Or is that “rare breed of historian who is also an excellent writer?” I'm not sure, but I can tell you that Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (Oxford UP, 2008) is a great book. The subject matter couldn't be more interesting and the prose is as delightful as it is instructive. There are many laugh-out-loud, I-wish-I were-that-clever sentences in this book: “Scott was not to know that the UNIA leader was of the school of thought that translated ‘no' as ‘maybe' and maybe' as ‘yes.'” And many others that will make you sad. Grant is that kind of writer and Garvey that kind of figure. Go buy this book. Then read it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2008 73:26


Today we are happy to have Colin Grant on the show. Colin is that rare breed of writer who is also an excellent historian. Or is that “rare breed of historian who is also an excellent writer?” I'm not sure, but I can tell you that Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (Oxford UP, 2008) is a great book. The subject matter couldn't be more interesting and the prose is as delightful as it is instructive. There are many laugh-out-loud, I-wish-I were-that-clever sentences in this book: “Scott was not to know that the UNIA leader was of the school of thought that translated ‘no' as ‘maybe' and maybe' as ‘yes.'” And many others that will make you sad. Grant is that kind of writer and Garvey that kind of figure. Go buy this book. Then read it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven't already.

New Books in Caribbean Studies
Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)

New Books in Caribbean Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2008 73:26


Today we are happy to have Colin Grant on the show. Colin is that rare breed of writer who is also an excellent historian. Or is that “rare breed of historian who is also an excellent writer?” I’m not sure, but I can tell you that Negro With A Hat:... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2008 73:26


Today we are happy to have Colin Grant on the show. Colin is that rare breed of writer who is also an excellent historian. Or is that “rare breed of historian who is also an excellent writer?” I’m not sure, but I can tell you that Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey (Oxford UP, 2008) is a great book. The subject matter couldn’t be more interesting and the prose is as delightful as it is instructive. There are many laugh-out-loud, I-wish-I were-that-clever sentences in this book: “Scott was not to know that the UNIA leader was of the school of thought that translated ‘no’ as ‘maybe’ and maybe’ as ‘yes.'” And many others that will make you sad. Grant is that kind of writer and Garvey that kind of figure. Go buy this book. Then read it. Please become a fan of “New Books in History” on Facebook if you haven’t already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices