Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement

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Bernardine Evaristo

Patricia St Hilaire

Paulette Randall

Hazel Carey

Angelina Fiordellisi

Jerry Gafio Watts

Verity-May Henry

Chris Jack

Ekene Akalawu

Fiery Inspiration: Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement: Episode 1

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Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the Black Arts Movement.

4 Extra Debut. Novelist Bernardine Evaristo explores the life of the man at the heart of the USA's 1960s Black Arts Movement. From 2015.

Novelist and poet Bernardine Evaristo explores the complex and controversial man - Amiri Baraka, who played a key role in developing the Black Arts Movement in the USA.

She looks back at how the energy of that cultural phenomenon in 1960s America, inspired her as an emerging Black writer in 1980s Britain.
 
In the first of two programmes, Bernardine returns to Rose Bruford College where she took her first steps towards building a career in the Arts.  And she travels to New York to trace the steps that Amiri Baraka took towards establishing the Black Arts Movement.
 
Contributors: 

Patricia St. Hilaire
Paulette Randall
Hazel Carey
Angelina Fiordellisi
Professor Jerry Gafio Watts

Readings: 

Verity-May Henry
Chris Jack
 
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.

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Novelist Bernardine Evaristo on the complex man at the heart of the black arts movement in 1960s America and how that movement inspired her as a black British writer.

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