A Chinese Odyssey: Artists, Poets and Exiles in Interwar London – BBC Radio 3 – 6/2/22 (& then on BBC Sounds)

Posted: January 22nd, 2022 | No Comments »

A heads up for this documentary i’ve been working on for some time for BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature – A Chinese Odyssey: Artists, Poets and Exiles in Interwar London – following the lives, worrk and motivations of the group of Chinese intellectuals who lived in the Belsize Park, NW3 district of Hampstead in the 1930s and during WW2…the dramatists, artists, reporters, poets, autobiographers and others, SI Hsiung, Dymia Hsiung, Chiang Yee, “Shelley” Wang Lixi, Lu Jingqing and Hsiao Chien (Xiao Chen) with cameo appearances from George Orwell, Clementine Churchill, Mulk Raj Anand, William Empson, Mei Lanfang and others…..

More details here – show broadcasts 6/2/22 and then will available to stream or download on the BBC Sounds app

A Chinese Odyssey: Artists, Poets and Exiles in Interwar London

Between 1937 and 1945, a small group of émigré Chinese artists and intellectuals living in London forged a unique bond between Britain and China. Paul French recovers the story.

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