In #33 I catch up with Elisha Bartels and Nicholai LaBarrie, two alumni of the Lilliput Theatre Company back in Trinidad for the company’s 30th anniversary celebrations, and play a few tracks from Nicholai’s new album. You can listen to this podcast in any of the following ways: MP3 | Online Player | RSS | [...]
Stories to Go, a podcast I check in on from time to time, features readings of short stories by authors from around the world. In recent times they’ve showcased works by two Caribbean authors, “In the Night” by Antiguan-born Jamaica Kincaid, and “Devil Beads” by Trinidadian Marina Ama Omowale Maxwell. Technorati Tags: caribbean, literature, short+story, [...]
In which I get on Skype with my colleague and buddy Simon Lee, erstwhile Trinidad-based journalist now back in London, and shoot the breeze on topics ranging from this year’s Notting Hill Carnival to the recent production of Derek Walcott‘s “Steel” in Trinidad and the demise of the bricks-and-mortar version of Rhyner’s Record Store; and [...]
He’s championed the show on the Evil Genius Chronicles, and now he’s wearing the shirt. Where would CFR be without Dave Slusher?
Have had several reports about download problems with the latest show and it does appear that Libsyn (the place I host my audio files) is having some difficulties. For those of you who are desperate for your CFR fix, however, I’ve uploaded another copy of the show to another server, so feel free to take [...]
CFR listener Russ Johnson ran a 10K in San Francisco last week, and guess what was part of his kit? Yup–a CFR t-shirt! For copyright reasons I can’t post the photo here, but you can see the fleet-footed Russ flying the CFR colours by visiting this link.
“Macafouchette” is a French creole word meaning leftovers, and it’s also the title of this show in which I–after another longish absence–sneak a few hours out out of my ridiculous schedule, dip into the CFR storage bins and choose a couple of choice tidbits which I hope come together to make something resembling a show. [...]
On a recent episode of the ever-wonderful Open Source Radio devoted to the situation in New Orleans, Christopher Lydon described the city as “the most exotic, most Caribbean [emphasis added], most vitally decadent, most nearly universal city in the United States”. Since one of the things New Orleans and the Caribbean share is an attitude [...]
A short one just to say I’m alive, well and swamped with work, and also to thank you all for supporting CFR with donations and t-shirt purchases, with special thanks to Dave Slusher for mentioning his CFR t-shirt purchase on the Evil Genius Chronicles. I also play a PSA with info about one of the [...]