Ep.111 - Jackie Hagan; Nuar Alsadir (transcript available)
b"This episode is in two parts:\\n\\nDavid Turner talks to poet and playwright Jackie Hagan talk about Jackie\\u2019s new play, \\u2018This Is Not A Safe Space\\u2019, which she\\u2019s just started touring. The play, presented by Unlimited and Big Feast, is based on interviews with over 80 people and in it, Jackie examines the impact of benefit cuts on disabled people and others on the margins of society. Perhaps predictably, considering the theme of this work, we discuss class - a lot. More specifically, when the idea of class entered Jackie\\u2019s consciousness and the effect it had on her gall bladder and mental health. \\n\\nDates for 'This Is Not A Safe Space':\\n23 and 24 March 2018 at the Attenborough Centre in Leicester as part of De-Stress Fest \\n25 March 2018 the Alhambra Theatre in Morecambe\\n29 March 2018 at the Creation Space in Basingstoke\\n30 March 2018 at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield\\n17-21 April 2018 Camden People\\u2019s Theatre in London\\n\\nPart two [00:58:33]:\\nDavid Turner is in front of a live audience at the Verve Poetry Festival in Birmingham talking to Nuar Alsadir about writing for an imagined reader and treating our notebook and pen as tools of the trade.\\n\\nLPP:\\nhttps://lunarpoetrypodcasts.com/\\nhttps://twitter.com/Silent_Tongue\\nhttps://www.facebook.com/LunarPoetryPodcasts/?ref=bookmarks\\n\\nJackie:\\nhttps://twitter.com/JackieHagan\\nhttps://www.jackiehagan.org/\\n\\nNuar:\\nhttps://twitter.com/FrthPrsnSnglr\\nhttps://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/86418\\n\\nA full transcript of this conversation can be downloaded here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/ep111-jackie-hagan-nuar-alsadir.pdf"