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Front Row: Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition

Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition

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Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, black British music exhibition

Shahidha Bari discusses women and Shakespeare, best beach reads with Emily Henry and Georgina Moore, black British music in new exhibition Beyond the Bassline.

The British Library isn’t all books; it has a huge sound archive, one of the largest in the world. It has drawn on this for Beyond the Bassline, the first major exhibition to documenting Black British music. Curators Aleema Gray and Mykaell Riley guide Shahidha Bari through the 500-year musical journey of African and Caribbean people in Britain.

Emily Henry is a giant of  the Beach Read: indeed one of her best selling novels is literally called that. With her forthcoming Funny Book, she is joined by author of The Garnett Girls Georgina Moore to discuss what goes into an ideal summer book.

And on Shakespeare's birthday, we discuss the women who made him as well as his female contemporaries with Charlotte Scott, from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and Rami Targoff author of Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

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