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Mary Anne Hobbs sits down with poet, activist and musician aja monet, recorded at the Barbican ahead of her live show there.

Mary Anne Hobbs sits down with poet, activist and musician aja monet, recorded at the Barbican ahead of her live show there. They talk about aja’s early days performing at New York’s legendary Nuyorican Poets Café aged 19, the importance of mentorship, and the inspiration behind her acclaimed work when the poems do what they do.

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Sun 16 Nov 202518:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Etta Baker

    One-Dime Blues

    • Rounder Records.

  • Erykah Badu

    Afro (Freestyle Skit)

    • UMG Recordings.

  • Rat Heart

    not 2nite (feat. Cansu Kandumir)

    • Dancin' In The Streets.
    • Modern Love.

  • Doc Scott

    Blue Skies

    • 31 Recordings.

  • Lousia Mark

    6 Sixth Street

    • Robot Records.

  • Richie Culver

    Intro

    • I TRUST PAIN.
    • Fixed Abode.

  • Florence Sinclair

    bandz

    • XL Recordings Ltd.

  • The Caretaker

    Hidden sea buried deep

    • Everywhere at the end of time.

  • Stenny

    Sharp Fragments

    • Sharp Fragments.
    • Ilian Tape.

  • Esther Phillips

    Home Is Where The Hated Is

    • Kudu.

  • Gabriels

    Angels & Queens

    • Parlophone.

  • Beatrice M.

    Oval

    • Tectonic Recordings.

  • Tyler, The Creator

    Mother

  • 2D0GS

    PUNTZ RETURN

    • dh2.

  • Amaria BB

    Pity

    • AWAL Recordings Ltd.

  • Manizeh

    Ashem Vohu (feat. Ganavya)

  • aja monet

    weathering

    • when the poems do what they do.
    • drink sum wtr.
    • 5.

  • aja monet

    give my regards to Brooklyn

    • give my regards to Brooklyn.
    • drink sum wtr.
    • 1.

  • aja monet

    i am

    • when the poems do what they do.
    • drink sum wtr.
    • 1.

  • aja monet

    the perfect storm

  • aja monet

    for the kids

  • Ezra Collective

    Victory Dance

    • Partisan.

  • Talking Heads

    Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)

    • Sire.

  • Tortoise

    Axial Seamount

    • International Anthem.

  • Hilary Woods

    Shelter

    • Night CRIÚ.

  • ROSALÍA

    La Yugular (feat. Patti Smith)

    • sony.

  • Ipek Gorgun

    Vasuki

    • Earthbound.

  • Mandy, Indiana

    Magazine

    • Sacred Bones.

Broadcast

  • Sun 16 Nov 202518:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music