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Front Row: Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers

15/08/2022

Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers

Jacob Collier live, Burhan Sönmez on threats to writers, 75th anniversary of Partition.

Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine perform live in the studio.
And Burhan Sönmez considers the threats faced by writers across the world.
A new play on Partition, Silence.

Jacob Collier has won a Grammy Award for each of his first four albums. In fact, he has five Grammys altogether. He’s back home in London after his recent UK tour and has just brought out a new single, Never Gonna Be Alone. Jacob and his musical collaborators Lizzy McAlpine and Victoria Canal perform the song live in the Front Row studio.

Following the attack on Sir Salman Rushdie at the weekend, the writer, human rights activist and PEN International president, Burhan Sönmez, considers the threats faced by writers across the world, from individuals on social media to imprisonment and torture by the state.

15th August 2022 is the 75th anniversary of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan. We speak to director Abdul Shayek and writer Ishy Din about their play, Silence, which is adapted from Kavita Puri’s book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, about how they dramatise the real-life stories of those who witnessed this brutal moment in history.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Jerome Weatherald

Photo: Lizzy McAlpine and Jacob Collier / Credit: Mogli Maureal

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