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Journal Article
\Broadcast now published\: An Interview with Caryl Phillips on the Publication of His Radio Plays
2024
Overview
[...]A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris (2004; 137-66), A Long Way from Home (2008; 213-61), and Dinner in the Village (2011; 263-99) are biographical dramas addressing the lives of major figures of the African diaspora: respectively, James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye, and Richard Wright together with C. L. R. James. What is interesting to note is that, with such features, The Wasted Tears plainly anticipates some of Phillips's later fictional work also focusing on a single woman raising black children in England, including his first stage play Strange Fruit (1981), his first fiction The Final Passage (1985), as well as the more recent novel The Lost Child (2015; see Rangúin 3-4). Broadcast once a week from London between 1943 and 1958, this literary radio programme, which aired creative contributions by West Indian artists, is widely known to have had \"a significant influence on the development and shape of literature in the Anglophone Caribbean\" (Griffith 3), as Glyne A. Griffith writes in his well-documented volume on how BBC Radio decisively fashioned the field. If the typescripts of Phillips's major audio plays have now been made accessible, the texts of his peers' audio works have remained for the most part unpublished and for this reason have not been critically assessed after they were broadcast.4 While an audio drama by Jamaican-born Nigel D. Moffat entitled Lifetime was released in Best Radio Plays of 1987, other radio plays by such writers as Fred D'Aguiar, Winsome Pinnock, Roy Williams, or Benjamin Zephaniah are difficult to track, either lying in archives or included in poorly distributed publications.5 It is to be hoped that the quality of the radio plays by Phillips that have recently come out will convince scholars of the significance of a genre that has as yet received little attention in the context of contemporary Caribbean literature.
Publisher
The University of the West Indies,Journal of West Indian Literature,University of the West Indies. Department of Literatures in English
