British Council Arts: Shakespeare Lives: Walking Cities, Rome
The historic Italian capital of Rome provides the backdrop to this short film featuring Orwell Prize-winning writer, academic and broadcaster Delia Jarrett-Macauley and Rome-based Italian writer and illustrator Roberto Recchioni. Exploring the city, they talk about the effect location has on their writing, and how Rome was utilised in Shakespeare’s works Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Julius Caesar to explore themes of love, people, power and the city. This is part of our series of 8 short films for the British Council’s Shakespeare Lives programme, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and exploring Shakespeare’s continuing influence on international literature today. Find out more: https://literature.britishcouncil.org…
BBC NEWS
When Una Marson became the BBC’s first black radio producer and presenter in the 1940s, she brought Caribbean voices and culture to a global audience, but her name is now little known. Sir Lenny Henry explains why he is reviving Marson’s story.
…”How could we have let someone of Una Marson’s calibre just disappear?” asks author and biographer Dr Delia Jarrett-Macauley in the documentary.
BBC Radio 4
Delia discusses about the life of Una Marson, First black woman producer at the BBC
Wellcome Centre: EXPLORING THE GENUINE FAKE with PATRICIA KINGORI
Join writer DELIA JARRETT-MACAULEY as she reflects on the challenges of creating an authentic reality, and how that sometimes involves blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.
Trapped History: Una Marson
Tune in to hear about the six lives of Una Marson as Oswin and Carla are joined by her biographer and Orwell Prize winner, Dee Jarrett-Macauley. It’s a tale of a young woman who came to represent a whole region, a whole continent even – and who sometimes found that burden too heavy to shake off.
National Theatre: Black Plays Archive
We interview the brilliant academic and novelist, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, about Una Marson’s legacy and two of her plays, ‘At What a Price’ and ‘Pocomania’. Una’s plays talk about religion, gender politics, and racism at a time where black women were rarely given the opportunity to do so. We ask what we might learn from Una’s plays if they were revived today.
Women and Shakespeare
‘Women and Shakespeare’ features conversations with diverse creatives and academics who are involved in making and interpreting Shakespeare. In the conversations, we find out both how Shakespeare is used to amplify the voices of women today and how women are redefining the world’s most famous writer. Series 1 was sponsored by NYU Global Faculty Fund Award.
Interviewer: Dr Varsha Panjwani
Guest: Dr Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Producer: Ms Karen Jessica Stewart
Artwork: Mr Wenqi Wan
