Between the Ears - Miss Birdie's Letter
Daljit Nagra selects Between the Ears - Miss Birdie's Letter taking poet Karen McCarthy to Kingston, Jamaica. From 2018.
Poet Daljit Nagra selects Between the Ears - Miss Birdie's Letter taking poet Karen McCarthy Woolf to Kingston, Jamaica.
Karen follows the trail of a letter sent to her Jamaican grandmother by her Church, commending her on 67 years of faithful service.
The trip takes her back to her father’s village, and to 1918, when her grandmother sets off for downtown Kingston from the poor country parish of St Catherine, a district that had been under a state of emergency as part of a government crackdown on gang violence.
What would life have been like for a rural migrant at the end of the First World War? And how does that compare to today?
Written and performed by Karen McCarthy Woolf.
Pastor…..Wyllie Longmore
Sound design Sharon Hughes
Producer: Susan Roberts
Director: Sharon Sephton
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 in October 2018.
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