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Toni Morrison Remembers

imagine...Summer 2015

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, America's first lady of literature, talks to Alan Yentob about her life and work. Contributors include Angela Davis and singer Jessye Norman.

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present, rich in vivid characters, haunted by ghosts. Born poor in Ohio in 1931, she now lives in New York.

In a film first shown in 2015, she tells Alan Yentob how her father hated whites so much he wouldn't let them in the house. Her masterpiece, Beloved, shows the horrors of slavery perhaps better than any other artwork. She talks as she writes - with warmth and wit. Contributors include Angela Davis (whose biography she edited) and singer Jessye Norman.

1 hour, 4 minutes

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Wed 25 Oct 202300:45
BBC Four

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Credits

PresenterAlan Yentob
Interviewed GuestToni Morrison
ParticipantAngela Davis
ParticipantJessye Norman
ProducerJill Nicholls
DirectorJill Nicholls
Series EditorAlan Yentob

Broadcasts

  • Tue 14 Jul 201522:40
    BBC One except Wales & Wales HD
  • Tue 14 Jul 201523:10
    BBC One Wales HD & Wales only
  • Sat 8 Aug 201501:55
    BBC Two
  • Wed 8 Mar 201723:00
    BBC Four
  • Tue 6 Aug 201922:35
    BBC One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Scotland & Scotland HD
  • Tue 6 Aug 201923:10
    BBC One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
  • Tue 6 Aug 201923:35
    BBC One Scotland HD & Scotland only
  • Tue 26 Apr 202223:00
    BBC Four
  • Wed 25 Oct 202300:45
    BBC Four

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