- Collected
- Podcast
Jonny Wright & Kerry Young
- 9 November, 2017
- Jonny Wright
- Kerry Young
Jonny Wright considers the sobering contemporary parallels of a 1959 play, and Kerry Young explores her literary origins. Jonny Wright considers the sobering parallels between the 1959 play A Raisin In The Sun, featuring a black family in Southside Chicago, and the racial inequality, downward economic mobility and defacto housing segregation of contemporary London. Kerry Young describes her journey from failing ‘O’-level English to becoming a successful novelist, and how her writing is a gift both to her late father and to the diverse cultures that have produced contemporary Jamaica.
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