This is a bumper episode, to coincide with series 2 of Bridgerton being released today!

This episode’s guest is Adjoa Andoh. Adjoa has been an actress, writer and director for over 30 years. You may recognise her in her role as Lady Danbury in Netflix’s Bridgerton and she is also my mum.

We recorded this last weekend in time for its publication today!

We discuss race, slavery, books, family, love, identity, football and many other things. It is a cracker of an episode, one that I will treasure.

 

You can find Adjoa on Instagram and Twitter.

The speculative fiction prize she mentioned is called The Future Worlds Prize.

Adjoa’s production company is called Swinging the Lens.

 

Adjoa’s books:

 

Adjoa’s favourite book: Beloved by Toni Morrison

A book that everyone loved but Adjoa didn’t: A Room with a View by E.M Forster

A book(s) that has (have) left an everlasting impression on Adjoa: Native Son by Richard Wright and Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Adjoa’s favourite childhood book(s): The Children by James Vance Marshall and Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner

A book that Adjoa will read next: The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

A book that everyone should read in Adjoa’s eyes: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

 

A quote:

 

“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King

 

Books mentioned:

 

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Mrs Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter

Easy Rawlings series by Walter Mosley

The Painter’s Friend by Howard Cunnell

I am a Bunny by Ole Risom

 

Films mentioned:

 

Walkabout

Mississippi Burning

Bridge of Spies

 

TV shows mentioned:

 

Bridgerton (Netflix)