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EPISODE · Mar 1, 2026 · 58 MIN

#503: Pat Cumper MBE, playwright, producer, director and cultural commentator

from Collected: The Podcast · host Royal Literary Fund

Pat Cumper, the celebrated former artistic director of Talawa Theatre Company talks to fellow playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero about the survival of political theatre, her experience of racism at Cambridge University in the 1970s, adapting work by Toni Morrison and what it means to be in the writing zone. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk

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