New Generation Thinkers: The Feurtado's Fire

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Claude Mackay the Haarlem poet wrote about his experiences of an earthquake in Kingston in 1907. Twenty years earlier the city was putting itself back together following a devastating fire set off by a disgruntled employee. New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar has been reading through diaries and archives and her Essay suggests that there are lessons we can take about the way societies rebuild after disasters.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

Dr Christienna Fryar is Lecturer in Black British History at Goldsmiths London and convenor of the MA in Black British History, the first taught masters' programme of its kind in the UK. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Council to select ten academics each year to make radio programmes based on their research. You can find a playlist of discussions, documentaries and other Essays featuring New Generation Thinkers on the Free Thinking programme website which include Christienna hosting discussions about women and slavery, and talking with Professor Olivette Otele.

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0:40.4	Hello, I'm Christina Fryer, and in this episode of the Artin Ideas podcast, here is an essay
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