2025-03-12
29 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our conversation with George the poet on music, memory and the war on blackness.
If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode and get up to speed.
George joined us recently on stage at the Kiln Theatre to discuss the themes of his new memoir, Track Record, in which he locates his personal story alongside a broader social history of race and identity Britain.
Now it's time to rejoin the conversation recorded recently at the Kiln Theatre in London.
Here's our host for the evening, writer and social commentator Shantae Joseph.
As soon as you get back from Uganda, you start University of Cambridge.
And one of the things you talk about with your time in Uganda is like, being in a place where everyone is also black and kind of feeling that sort of, like, comfort and that joy.
And then going to Cambridge where you were saying you were like, one of, like, four black people, like, in your halls at the time was like, three, like, which is just insane.
I mean, I know I. I grew up in northwest London.
I went to John Kelly, now Crescard's Academy.
So I always say that, like, I grew up in a time where I remember in my year, there was.
There was one.
There was like, two white girls.
One of them, she's like my best friend to this day.
Her name is Charlotte, but in school we just call her white girl because she was, like, the only one, you know, I love her so much.
She's my girl to this day.
But it was like.
I remember kind of growing up in that environment, like growing up in Brent.