Telling Tales: Salena Godden
Ep. 5/12 -
Radio 4 Extra celebrates the best in storytelling, different voices and different genres.
Salena Godden is a spoken word artist and poet, whose latest publication declared that Pessimism Is For Lightweights.
Livewire, a collection of studio recordings spanning nearly 25 years, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award in 2016.
Salena is also a regular on radio and, in 2018, Radio 4’s Mrs Death Misses Death captured the creation of a new experimental work, in which death is personified as a woman.
We hear this documentary, an earlier gender-swapping poetic creation titled A Valentine At Waterloo, and Salena talks about protest and hope.
- Producer: Ali Gardiner
Publicity contact: JH2
