2026-03-29
29 分钟Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
For more than half a century, my guest today has helped shape the literary landscape as a publisher,
editor, critic and cultural advocate.
In the late 1960s, she co-founded Alison and Busby, becoming the youngest and first black woman publisher in Britain.
Through that press, she championed writers from across the African and Caribbean diaspora at a time
when the British publishing industry offered very few openings to writers of colour.
Her new book gathers together essays, reviews, speeches and reflections written across five decades,
pieces that chart not only her own life, but the changing cultural and political landscape around literature,
race and representation.
The book is called Part of the Story.
Writings from half a century.
And my guest is Margaret Busby.
Welcome.
Thank you, Georgina.
It's really lovely to have you here.
You are, of course, president of English Pen, the human rights organisation on which I sit on the board.
So we see each other quite often, but we've never been across from a microphone from each other.
No, we haven't.
It's exciting.