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Jimmy's Blues

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

James Baldwin 's essays, plays and novels explored and mirrored aspects of his own life - growing up in the church in Harlem and fleeing segregated America for Europe to become one of the most articulate voices of the civil rights movement. Using archive interviews, Darryl Pinckney presents a portrait of one of the giants of 20th-century American literature. Producer Tony Phillips

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James Baldwin
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Darryl Pinckney
Producer:
Tony Phillips
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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