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If You Don't Know: Liv Little, Jords and all-black audiences

Liv Little, Jords and all-black audiences

BBC Radio 1Xtra - If You Don't Know, Liv Little, Jords and all-black audiences

Liv Little and Jords on their new debuts, and we get into the Black Out theatre backlash.

Liv Little joins De-Graft and talks about her journey and transition from gal-dem founder to author. Her debut novel, Rosewater, has just been released. It’s a love story about all kinds of love. 

There was a fuss online and in the media after it was announced that new play Tambo & Bones would hold a performance specifically for black audiences “free from the white gaze”. We’re joined by the show’s director, Matthew Xia, who tells De-Graft about the importance of creating safe spaces for black people. 

And Jords is in the building! As well as co-founding a free school uniform initiative for kids on free school meals, he’s just dropped his long-awaited debut album, Dirt In The Diamond. 

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Presenter: De-Graft Mensah
Producer: Kamilah McInnis
Researcher: Paige Neal-Holder and Danielle Okine 
Sound: Kamilah McInnis and Dave O’Neill
Editor: Alison Gee

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