6 JUL 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Raj Pal and son ! https://uk.linkedin.com/in/raj-pal-65898924 … is an advisor at the National Trust and Member of Inclusive histories working group. Raj is engaged with The Churchill and Chartwell project to explore his role in empire and post war Europe. Here, Raj talks to Kevin Ncube @ColonialCountr1 about his experience of the Colonial Countryside Project …. and his son Kabir tells an interesting story of laying daffodils on a certain grave ….

5 JUL 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Karen Onojaife - https://karenonojaife.com/ Her work has previously been long listed for the Bridport Short Story and the Fish Short Story competitions. Her novel Borrowed Light won the Reader's Choice award and placed runner-up in the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize 2012. She is a VONA/Voices fellow and a recipient of a place on the Hedgebrook Writers in Residence program. Here she reads an Extract from “Stet”- Karen wrote Stet for the Colonial Countryside Project and tells Kevin more about her experience of working on the commission……

30 JUN 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Pete Kalu: http://www.peterkalu.com/cvbio/ Story weaver, storyteller, novelist, poet and researcher for eight Manchester Museums bicentenary of the abolition of the trade in slaves researcher- Peter has a PhD Creative Writing from (Lancaster University) 2019. Peter has written/ performed, among many things, Bluebird, which is a Colonial Countryside project-related poem-song 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zy2EVuETRc Kevin Ncube[Project Manager @ColonialCountr1] chats to Peter after he reads from his work ‘Richard Watt the First, Merchant’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2bf16kqOAU

19 JUN 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Mahsuda Snaith: https://mahsudasnaith.com/ is a writer of novels and short stories. Her debut novel ‘The Things We Thought We Knew’ (Black Swan) was released in 2017 when she was named an ‘Observer New Face of Fiction’. Her second novel ‘How to Find Home’ (Black Swan) was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book at Bedtime’. She leads creative writing workshops at De Montfort University- Mahsuda tells Kevin Ncube [Project Manager @ColonialCountr1] about her experience of working on her colonial countryside commission after reading her piece Waste Not, Want Not ….

17 JUN 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Malachi McIntosh is editor and publishing director of Wasafiri. He previously co-led the Runnymede Trust's award-winning Our Migration Story project and spent four years as a lecturer in postcolonial literature at the University of Cambridge The Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri magazine, Malachi McIntosh is the author of Emigration and Caribbean Literature (2015) and the editor o... Read more at: https://english.mathrubhumi.com/mbifl2020/speakers/malachi-mcintoshmalachi-mcintosh-mbifl-2020-1.4439745

16 JUN 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Ayanna Gillian Lloyd: https://ayannagillianlloyd.com/ …. is a writer from Trinidad & Tobago. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Callaloo and Anomaly. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and is now a postgraduate researcher in Creative-Critical Writing at UEA. She is a contributor to Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted with her work THE SHADOW MAN and tells Kevin Ncube [Project Manager @ColonialCountr1] more about her contribution to the project, that is, after she reads her engaging piece !

16 JUN 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Trinidad and Tobago’s award winning poet Andre Bagoo https://www.andrebagoo.com reads from his work Litany For Two Boys at Dyrham Park, England and talks to Kevin Ncube [Project Manager @ColonialCountry1] about writing the piece…..

26 MAY 2021 · Commissioned poems and short stories about National Trust houses’ connections to the British Empire. The creative pieces you will hear were produced with the guidance of 14 Colonial Countryside historians. The Colonial Countryside project commissioned 10 authors, whose pieces will be published by Peepal Tree Press in Spring 2022. This illustrated book will also contain short historical commentaries and a photo essay by the project’s commissioned photographer, Ingrid Pollard. Hannah Lowe Poet and academic Hannah Lowe www.hannahlowe.me reads from her work DAZZLING BLUE and talks to Kevin Ncube @ColonialCountr1 about her experience of researching her piece.