01: Locked Up in the South - Colson Whitehead and Tayari Jones

Louise and Virginia discuss a number of books that delve into what it means to be a person of colour in America, and the issue of wrongful incarceration. They also talk about a secret religious group that wields considerable power in Washington, run by men only, and a few other things they’ve been diving into.

Email hello@divinginpodcast.com

Instagram @diving_in_podcast

Virginia’s Instagram @les__livres__

Song ‘Diving In’ - original music and lyrics written and performed by Laura Adeline -

https://linktr.ee/llauraadeline

Podcast sound production and editing by Andy Maher.

Books

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, 2019, published by Hachette.

The Underground Railway by Colson Whitehead, 2016, published by Hachette.

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, 2018, published by Oneworld Publications.

Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala, 2018, published by John Murray.

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2018, published by Houghton Mifflin

Harcourt Publishing.

The Sellout by Paul Beatty, 2015, published by Oneworld Publications.

SBS on Demand (Australia)

Back to Life (TV series BBC1, 2019, 6 episodes)

Bosch (TV series, Amazon Entertainment, Season 5, 2019)

Netflix

The Family (Documentary 2019, 5 episodes)

Podcast

Twenty Thousand Hertz - 2016 Siri, 2017 Evolution of Accents, 2019 Stradivarius,

Plants That Sing, Deaf Gain.

Women’s Prize for Fiction – womensprizeforfiction.co.uk