On the Road with Penguin Classics

The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta

02.25.2021 - By Penguin Random House UKPlay

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Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.   Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.html Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-lonely-londoners/id913000990?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg;=30200&ct;=books_the_lonely_londoners&ls;=1   Susheila Nasta https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta   Wasafiri https://www.wasafiri.org/   The Pepperpot Centre https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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