Writing and Place: The North-East
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Jessica Andrews grew up in Sunderland and has written two novels - Saltwater and Milk Teeth. Jake Morris-Campbell still lives in his native South Shields and his poetry includes the collection Corrigenda for Costafine Town and various Radio 3 commissioned pieces. He is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. They talk to Ian McMillan, host of Radio 3's new writing programme The Verb, about how their sense of the North East of England has fed into their writing.
Producer Torquil MacLeod
You can find a collection of conversations about Prose, Poetry and Drama on Radio 3's Free Thinking programme website, all available to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts.
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| 0:39.5 | Hello, I'm Ian McMillan, and in this Arts and Ideas podcast, two writers, |
| 0:44.0 | the novelist Jessica Andrews and the poet Jake Morris Campbell, |
| 0:47.3 | join me to talk about their experience of growing up in the northeast of England |
| 0:51.2 | and how it shaped their writing. |
| 1:10.0 | Music up in the northeast of England and how it shaped their writing. Whenever I think of the Northeast, I always think about my family trips up from South Yorkshire to my dad's family in Scotland and there was a particular |
| 1:13.7 | place not far from Concet where my dad always said the North East started we'd be driven up from |
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