What do we leave behind when we move to a new place – and what do we carry with us, physically and emotionally, wherever we land? Colin Grant, director of WritersMosaic, draws out candid and moving stories of migration – foundational tales of arriving in a new land, along with rarely spoken tales of love and loss. This is a chance to listen to Britain, in all its richness and complexity.
He’s joined by storytellers sharing the secrets of their migrant songs and objects: Suzanne Harrington (The Liberty Tree), an Irish writer who travelled with an ‘introductory’ sick note from her psychiatrist; Eric Ngalle Charles (Homelands), a Cameroonian poet bestowed with an ancestral charm to ward off any danger encountered in Britain; and Amanada Vilanova (Hurricane Diaries), a Puerto Rican actor gifted her mother’s jewellery to sell in an emergency.
