We put politics, performance and poetry under the lens with spoken-word stars Luke Wright and Hollie McNish
This week we listen in to two performance poets as they examine the personal and the political.
Luke Wright takes a pause from the nationwide tour of his award-winning show What I Learned from Johnny Bevan to tell us why he wanted to explore the fallout from Blair’s Cool Britannia through a poem charting the ups and downs of a friendship begun at university. Hollie McNish explains what drove her to expose the intimacies of childbirth and early motherhood in verse.
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