On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of American renowned writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, you're invited to listen to the radio play A Kind of Home that was broadcasted for the first time on BBC in 2004. This play was written by Caryl Phillips and is about Baldwin’s first move to Paris as a young writer and the difficult conditions of bringing his first novel Go Tell It On the Mountain into the world.
‘Celebrating the 100th Birthday of James Baldwin: Public Radio Play: A Kind of Home’
Organised by the Vrije Universiteit’s Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) and Passa Porta (the International House of Literature in Brussels).
An event celebrating the radio play, A Kind of Home, written by Caryl Phillips, first broadcast on the BBC in 2004, exploring ‘James Baldwin’s first move to Paris as a young writer and the difficult conditions of bringing his first novel Go Tell It On the Mountain into the world’.