Changing the Mirror
Actor Adjoa Andoh explores our need to see our own identities reflected in the culture and environment that envelop us.
Actor Adjoa Andoh explores our need to see our own identities reflected in the culture and environment that envelop us.
With readings from work by Jackie Kay and Aminatta Forna and music by Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba and Florence Price.
Readers: Nadine Marshall, Jackie Kay and Janice Acquah
Produced by Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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Florence Price
Mississippi River Suite
- Oak, Mississippi River Suite (Women’s Philharmonic).
- Koch.
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Odetta
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- The Essential Odetta.
- Vanguard.
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Roberta Flack
Go Up Moses
- Quiet Fire.
- Atlantic.
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Dominique Le Gendre
Jabmolassie
- Unreleased.
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Abbey Lincoln
Straight Ahead
- Straight Ahead.
- Candid.
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Miriam Makeba
Ingwemebala
- Sangoma.
- Warner Bros.
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Nina Simone
Four Women
- Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings.
- Universal Distribution / Verve.
Readings
Title: Raymond’s Run
Author: Toni Cade Bambara
Publisher: The Child’s World
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Title: Red Dust Road
Author: Jackie Kay
Publisher: Picador
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Title: Of Mules and Men
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Title: Random
Author: Debbie Tucker Green
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
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Title: Ancestor Stones
Author: Aminatta Forna
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Aug 2015 06:05Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 16 Aug 2015 23:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 30 Aug 2020 06:05Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 30 Aug 2020 23:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4