This week Francine Stock is joined by Horace Panter, Abigail Thomas, Delaine Le Bas and Ben Okafor.
HORACE PANTER Horace Panter was the bass player with Coventry band, The Specials. In their second hand suits and pork pie hats, the band were one of the most innovative to come out of the punk era, with their fusion of punk, reggae and ska. They created their own record label 2-Tone and stood for unity and racial harmony. Ska'd for Life: A personal journey with The Specials is published by MacMillan.
ABIGAIL THOMAS
Abigail Thomas' life changed when her husband Rich was hit by a car, leaving him with a serious brain injury. In her memoir, A Three Dog Life she tells how she had to rebuild her life rather than abandon her husband and found solace with her new family of three dogs, her knitting and friendship. A Three Dog Life is published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
DELAINE LE BAS
Delaine Le Bas is a Romany and Outsider artist. Much of her work is inspired by her culture and the struggle to escape the stereotypes. She is one of the Roma artists exhibiting in Paradise Lost in the Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2007 and is appearing at the Gypsy Arts Festival in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
The Gypsy Arts Festival is at the Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk on 21st and 22nd July. Delaine will be running a workshop on 22nd July.
BEN OKAFOR
Ben Okafor is a writer/actor and singer/songwriter whose new play, Child of Biafra follows his real life experiences of becoming a child soldier in the Biafran army when he was thirteen years old. The production coincides with the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Nigeria-Biafra war. Child of Biafra is at the Contact Theatre, Manchester from 19th-21st July.
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