I’ve Been a Kind of Ventriloquist
For this episode, writers Patricia Cumper and Pauline Walker are joined by memoirist and biographer Colin Grant. He tells us about writing his memoir Bageye at the Wheel and how he was inspired to write about Jamaican greats Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
In a sense I’ve just been writing the one book again and again with slightly different versions because I think that the richest place on the planet is the Caribbean…So although I say I’ve been writing the same book again and again and again, there’s nothing to stop me continuing to do so because it’s such an endless supply of rich stories, a rich tapestry which hasn’t yet fully been told.
I think that the richest place on the planet is the Caribbean.....it’s such an endless supply of rich stories, a rich tapestry which hasn’t yet fully been told