The Lonely Londoners with Susheila Nasta On the Road with Penguin Classics

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/

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