Its been a while! So I'm bringing you a little bonus episode dedicated to my beloved What Words Are Ours? a poetry project where I showcase Deaf and hearing artists alongside each other. If you've been to one of the sold out live shows you'll know its a proper knees up and if you haven't, fear not because I’ve got some stunning performances recorded live at What Words Are Ours? We've got Dean Atta, Reece Lyons, Kareem Parkins Brown and Bayan Goudarzpour. I’ll also be dropping a li...

This is a little bonus episode featuring a short interview I did with Oberon White, a queer, Welsh cabaret performance artist.You might have already listened to episode 11 which features a poem / soundscape by Oberon. Its an excerpt from their show winegod. If you haven’t listened to that yet I urge you to.In this bonus episode Oberon and I chat in more detail about winegod, a show that explored queer icons and took inspiration from mythology.A transcript of the episode can be found here...

"What is queer time? What is queer space?" Oberon White. This episode I offer you something from another artist, a piece called 'Prophylaxis' by Oberon White, a performance artist who is a regular fixture on London's queer underground cabaret scene. The excerpt you're about to hear is from Oberon's show winegod, which traced the ancientness of queer identity and grappled with the erasure of queer history.A transcript of the episode can be found here: https://taliarandall.com/2020/07/16/ctr-11...

Today’s show is all about the bizarre, embarrassing, inexplicable notes that I’ve found in my phone and in various notebooks.I’m not talking about long chunks of prose or deep excerpts from a diary or journal. I’m talking about random words and sentences that are just on their own, in the middle of a blank page. Ideas or phrases I’ve written to myself but that have absolutely no context, like I’m supposed to know exactly what I meant when I wrote it down.Do you do this? Please let me kno...

It's a weird one this week, a proper weird one in which I tell you about 29 of my deeply strange dreams.Like the time I dreamt that Mel Gibson was trying to play Super Mario with me in a windowless room, or when I dreamt that I gave birth to a baby made of paperclips. Buckle up babes, its wild. For a transcript of this episode go to: https://taliarandall.com/2020/06/17/ctr-29dreams-transcript/ Cassette Tape Radio is written and presented by Talia Randall. Music and audio engineering...

UniSlam uses poetry as a tool to engage, inspire and empower.This little bonus episode is an interview with Toby Campion, the director of UniSlam. In this interview we talk about the spoken word scene in which Toby and myself started out in, we chat about the importance of honouring our collective spoken word history, and I say the word ‘absolutely’ a lot.To read a transcript go to:https://taliarandall.com/2020/06/09/ctr-bonus-ep-transcriptYou can support us with the cost of making futu...

This week we've got 12 poems from 12 poets. Thats it - lush, contemporary poetry. Featuring (in order of appearance): Shruti Chauhan, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Jemima Foxtrot, Jamal Mehmood, Ben Norris, Maria Ferguson, Bryony Littlefair, Hannah Gordon, Toby Campion, Alice Frecknall, Talia Randall, Cecilia Knapp To see more on all the featured artists go to: https://taliarandall.com/2020/06/03/ctr-8-feat...

"The Last Poets are the birthplace of rap" (Chuck D). The Last Poets were founded in Harlem on May 19th 1968 - Malcolm X's Birthday. They've influenced everyone from Erykah Badu to Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan and countless others. In this episode of Cassette Tape Radio I chat with Abiodun Oyewole, one of the founding members of The Last Poets; one of the fathers of hip hop. We talk about how The Last Poets turned up the volume on poetry, transforming it from ...

A tongue-twisting, thigh-slapping, tear-jerking poetry-cabaret show featuring poets and performers Zia Ahmed, Lisa Luxx, Jackie Hagan, Cheryl Dole, Amina Jama, The Repeat Beat Poet and of course me - Talia Randall. Most of today's episode was recorded live at my poetry knees-up What Words Are Ours? Today's partner is Free Word Centre in London. The venue and I were due to collaborate on my show What Words Are Ours? a night that showcases D/deaf and hearing artists on the same stage. Like so m...

Talia delivers a short poetry set of six poems. Some brand new & still in flux, others less brand new. Cassette Tape Radio is written and presented by Talia Randall. Music and audio engineering by Jamie Payne.For a transcript of this episode go to:https://taliarandall.com/2020/04/23/cassette-tape-radio-ep-5-six-poems-transcript