Pan-caribbean

Five stories by leading Caribbean writers which explore, challenge and celebrate the diverse cultural identity of the label `pan-Caribbean'.

Episode

Title

First
Broadcast

Repeated

Comments

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.