Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Repeated | Comments |
---|---|---|---|---|
01 | Pan For Pockot | 20000131 | by Lionel Seepaul, read by Burt Caesar. A vivid and disturbing story of Trinidadian street life, focusing a young man at carnival time who can do nothing right - except play tenor pan like an angel. | |
01 | Pan For Pockot | 20000131 | by Lionel Seepaul, read by Burt Caesar. A vivid and disturbing story of Trinidadian street life, focusing a young man at carnival time who can do nothing right - except play tenor pan like an angel. | |
02 | Miss Joyce And Bobcat | 20000201 | 20000813 | by E A Markham, read by Yvonne Brewster. A story of courtship between a retired nurse who has finally returned home from abroad and Bobcat the builder, whose powerful male presence disturbs her to distraction. |
02 | Miss Joyce And Bobcat | 20000201 | 20000813 | by E A Markham, read by Yvonne Brewster. A story of courtship between a retired nurse who has finally returned home from abroad and Bobcat the builder, whose powerful male presence disturbs her to distraction. |
03 | Song Of Roland | 20000202 | 20000820 | by Jamaica Kincaid, read by Josette Bushell-Mingo. A sensual and magical love story about an Antiguan stevedore and the women in his life. |
03 | Song Of Roland | 20000202 | 20000820 | by Jamaica Kincaid, read by Josette Bushell-Mingo. A sensual and magical love story about an Antiguan stevedore and the women in his life. |
04 | Major Bonnett's Buccaneer Beach | 20000203 | 20000827 | By John Gilmore, read by Kara Miller. A dreamy reflection on the unsavoury brashness of life in the tourist trade told by a young Barbadian woman. |
04 | Major Bonnett's Buccaneer Beach | 20000203 | 20000827 | By John Gilmore, read by Kara Miller. A dreamy reflection on the unsavoury brashness of life in the tourist trade told by a young Barbadian woman. |
05 LAST | Mrs Da Silva's Carnival | 20000204 | by Pauline Melville, read by Mona Hammond. A hilarious account of one woman's carnival in Notting Hill. She is too big for any leotard but hugely desirable to timid widower Mr Foster. | |
05 LAST | Mrs Da Silva's Carnival | 20000204 | by Pauline Melville, read by Mona Hammond. A hilarious account of one woman's carnival in Notting Hill. She is too big for any leotard but hugely desirable to timid widower Mr Foster. |