Inua Ellams: How Rudyard Kipling’s Racism Led To The Legitimising of Trump & The Far Right

We speak to award-winning actor and playwright and author of ‘The Actual’ Inua Ellams. He discusses the issues illustrated in his poems such as climate change, Donald Trump and racism, why politics has become less about listening and more about knee-jerk reactions, why he believes the way the British government and people’s perception of immigration has to fundamentally change, the arguably toxic lesser-known legacy of Rudyard Kipling and much more! To conclude the show, he recites his poem ‘F—K/Batman’

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