Janet and Allan Ahlberg
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Oct 25, 2026
Annie RutherfordGUEST
Um, and it's, it's great.
Annie RutherfordGUEST
It's an anthology of, you know, Jackie Kay and Brian Patton and Alan Alberg, um, Benjamin Zephaniah
Heather RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
and so
Annie RutherfordGUEST
I think like I always enjoyed it and I think that I was very lucky in the poetry at school and didn't scare me off like I read Larkin and I was like I dislike you because you are Larkin and not because you are poetry and that is an important distinction And then I, after university, after my undergrad, I went to Paris, which sounds very cool, but it's not a great place to be skint.
AJHOST
Oh, no, I don't remember that.
AshaHOST
You know, that was Janet and Alan Alberg.
AshaHOST
Oh, wait,
AJHOST
they
AshaHOST
Do you? It's kind of like, that's nice chocolate, I'll have that.
AJHOST
Yes.
AJHOST
The Albergs really made the best kiddie books.
AJHOST
I should put some in the show notes because they're...
CharlotteGUEST
We've got the Festival of Stories at the Atkinson and we've got a Fringe Festival as well, which local businesses are taking part in.
CharlotteGUEST
So the Jolly Postman Trail is based on the book by Janet and Alan Alberg and you can follow the Jolly Postman around Southport.
CharlotteGUEST
So we've been working with Make to create installations of different scenes from the storybook.
CharlotteGUEST
So it's different fairy tales come to life basically.
Calum GreenallHOST
Yeah.
Susan Joy LuGUEST
Um, and again, not dissimilar to the Ahlbergs, that it's, it's ink and watercolor.
Susan Joy LuGUEST
It's simple, um, and it kind of harps back to that classic illustration.
Calum GreenallHOST
Mm-hmm.
James MassiahGUEST
So I didn't really feel comfortable calling myself an MC because I couldn't spit what the other MC spat about.
James MassiahGUEST
Poetry I grew up with Roald Dahl's Wondercrump Collection and Allen Alberg and John Agard and stuff.
James MassiahGUEST
So poetry was there, but I just enjoyed words and language.
James MassiahGUEST
But for a long time, I felt that if I'm going to be seen as intelligent, as a young black working class guy, if I rap, if I say I'm a rapper, they're gonna dismiss me.
Chloe LulaHOST
And what did that ignite for you when you found the marriage of music and poetry?
James MassiahGUEST
Yeah, I think it's funny because you have these... um titles genres identities and they're they're loaded so for a long time to be an mc was to also be someone who was in the street and i wasn't in the street i was a church boy so i didn't really feel comfortable calling myself an mc because i couldn't spit what the other mc spat about um Poetry I grew up with, Roald Dahl's Wonder Crump Collection and Alan Alberg and John Agard and stuff.
James MassiahGUEST
So poetry was there.
James MassiahGUEST
But I just enjoyed words and language.