Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation

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Chloe Aridjis on objects, projection and transformation

Booker Prize-longlisted writer Chloe Aridjis is the author of Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters. Her fourth novel, The Shadow of the Object, moves between Mexico City and London in a tale of illness, friendship, magic lanterns, silver polishing, grief and the strange charg ...  Show more

Raoul de Jong’s mystical journey into his Surinamese ancestry

Georgina Godwin meets Raoul de Jong to discuss his book ‘Jaguarman’, now translated into English, which explores his Suriamese heritage through the prism of a mystical ancestor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

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