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Women of the Blues on today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, 5pm

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Bessie Smith, “Empress of the Blues” Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3, The Women of the Blues. Presented by Anna Chen with Charles Shaar Murray. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. Today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge of the series wraps […]

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Restaging Revolutions: alternative theatre on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge tonight 5pm, Resonance 104.4FM

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Tonight live at 5pm on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge’s guests are Dr Susan Croft and Neil Hornick of The Phantom Captain theatre company. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides shotgun. The alternative theatre movement in Britain was a post-war explosion of talent and ideas that took theatre to the masses in

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Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse: and a poem about panda sex

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Last night I won the annual Farrago Poetry Zoo Award for Best Performance by a London Poet for 2013. Held at the RADA Café in Malet Street, the Farrago poetry events are supportive and inclusive, not to mention exciting, showcases for some very hot new talent. Thank you to everyone who voted for me. What

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The forced repatriation of Chinese seaman from post-war Liverpool: my column for the South China Morning Post

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Photo: Pak Hung Chan In 2007 I made a ten-part series for BBC Radio 4 called Chinese In Britain. Along with my wonderful producer Mukti Jain Campion at Culture Wise, we covered hitherto largely unknown issues and events such as the forced repatriation by the Atlee government of Chinese seamen who’d risked their lives keeping

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Cultural Revolution: this week’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance FM

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Cultural Revolution — 29th October 2013. An anarchist, a Trotskyist and a communist walk into a studio … Find out what happens next by listening to Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge at 5.30pm on Resonance FM. This week, Anna Chen looks at what happens to culture during a time of revolution. What are the ideals? What

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