Newcastle University

‌Here you'll find details of project publications, previous and upcoming seminar and conference papers connected to the project, and news of the latest findings from the archives.

Publications and Online Articles

• 'Una Marson at the BBC' in Small Axe, 19:3 (2015) pp. 1-28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/602408
• 'London Calling: the BBC and Caribbean Literature' (2018) https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/people-nation-empire/london-calling
• 'Empire Windrush: how the BBC reported Caribbean migrants' mixed reception in 1948' (2018) https://theconversation.com/empire-windrush-how-the-bbc-reported-caribbean-migrants-mixed-reception-in-1948-98593
• 'Empire Windrush: forgotten archive material reveals who was on its outward voyage to the Caribbean' (2018), The Conversation https://theconversation.com/empire-windrush-forgotten-archive-material-reveals-who-was-on-its-outward-voyage-to-the-caribbean-97905
• Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC and the Black Atlantic, 1932-1968 [in preparation, OUP 2019]
• 'Wireless Writing, World War II and the West Indian Literary Imagination' in Gill Plain (ed.) Postwar: British Literature in Transition 1940-60 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [forthcoming 2018]
• 'Transnational Cultural Exchange: The BBC as Contact Zone' in S. Nasta and M. Stein Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [forthcoming 2019]

Invited Papers, Plenaries and Keynotes

• Nov 2017 - 'Empire on Air' SOAS, University of London
• Oct 2017 – 'Radio and Resilience', University of Salamanca
• Oct 2017 - 'Una Marson at the BBC', King's College, London
• Apr 2017 - 'Pneumatic Print' 'Postcolonial Print Cultures', New York University
• Jan 2016 - 'Wireless Empire: Radio Literature and the Sonic Imagination', Perne Club, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
• Nov 2015 - 'Diaspora on Air: Radio and Lyric Modernity' 'Diasporic Trajectories' seminar series, IASH, University of Edinburgh
• Oct 2015 - 'Literary Broadcasting and West Indians in Continental Europe' Keynote lecture at 'Interpreting Communities: Minority Writing in European Literary Fields' Institute of Modern Languages, London
• Sep 2014 - Plenary paper at University of Warwick conference, 'Long Waves and Global Frequencies'
• Mar 2014 - Postgraduate Seminar paper delivered at Queen Mary, University of London
• Nov 2013 - 7th Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture, University of West Indies

“It is now nearly thirty years since, in a BBC room in London, on an old BBC typewriter, and on smooth, ‘non-rustle’ BBC script paper, I wrote the first sentence of my first published book….” V.S Naipaul Finding the Centre (1984)