Luke de Noronha welcomes Sita Balani, Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London and the author, most recently, of Deadly and Slick: the Sexual Life of Race in Britain (Verso Press, 2023). They discuss Sita’s recent writings on culture wars, melodrama as a mode of political communication, and the difference between the ordinary and normal. 

This conversation was recorded in November 2025

Speakers: Luke de Noronha and Sita Balani

Producer: Trisha Hart

Editor: James Fox

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