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Front Row: Yard Act's debut album, writer Esi Edugyan, Jason Katims on the TV series As We See It

07/02/2022

Yard Act's debut album, writer Esi Edugyan, Jason Katims on the TV series As We See It

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Yard Act's debut album, writer Esi Edugyan, Jason Katims on the TV series As We See It

James Smith, lead singer of breakthrough band Yard Act on their debut album The Overload.

The band Yard Act on their debut album The Overload, writer Esi Edugyan on her essay collection Out of the Sun, screenwriter Jason Katims on the TV series As We See It.

Fresh from a special concert in their home city of Leeds to mark Independent Venue Week, James Smith, lead singer of Yard Act talks to Samira about the group’s success with the release of their debut album.  Their character-driven debut album, The Overload - designed to provoke "an open discussion about capitalism" - went straight into the charts at number two.

Novelist Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black and Half Blood Blues, talks to Samira about her latest collection of essays, Out of the Sun, in which she delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives.

Jason Katims has written and developed several hit US television series including Friday Night Lights and Parenthood. His latest creation is As We See It, which focuses on the lives of three young people with autism.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jodie Keane

Image: Yard Act Photo credit: Phoebe Fox

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