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’
<p>Organised by the Vrije Universiteit’s Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) and Passa Porta (the International House of Literature in Brussels).</p><p>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’.</p>