174: Afia Atakora, Sara Collins, Andrea Levy and Eric Motley

Published: June 19, 2020, 11:55 a.m.

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Afia Atakora explores Black Lives in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War in her new novel Conjure Women (Starts at 1.04)
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\\nWe follow a servant and former slave girl from a Jamaican plantation to Georgian London in The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins (16.00)
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\\nWe travel back in time to hear from the late Andrea Levy about her book The Long Song and how her father arrived in the UK on the Empire Windrush (31.14)
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\\nAnd travel from racially charged Alabama to the Oval Office with Eric Motley (40.45)
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\\nPlus there's a return to Afia Atakora for the books of her life. (49.00)
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