The Birmingham Literature Festival Podcast - Welcome to the very first Birmingham Literature Festival podcast, bringing writers and readers together to discuss some of 2020’s best books. Each Thursday we’ll be releasing new episodes of the podcast, including wonderful discussions about writing, poetry, big ideas and social issues. Join us each week for exciting and inspiring conversations with new, and familiar, writers from the Midlands and beyond.
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episode 2: Hashi Mohamed: The Housing Crisis
This week’s episode is housing lawyer Hashi Mohamed speaking to Guest Curator Otegha Uwagba.
Hashi’s family arrived in the UK as refugees from Somalia in the 1990s, and his book A Home of One’s
Own is the story of his family, as well as that of every family in the UK trying to carve out their own
space in a broken housing system.
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Credits
Curator: Shantel Edwards (Festival director)
Production: 11C/ Birmingham Podcast Studios for Writing West Midlands