Louise Bennett-Coverley
Jamaican poet
3
APPEARANCES
3
PODCASTS
012
DEC 30
JAN 6
JAN 13
JAN 20
JAN 27
FEB 3
FEB 10
FEB 17
FEB 24
MAR 3
MAR 10
MAR 17
MAR 24
MAR 31
APR 7
APR 14
APR 21
APR 28
MAY 5
MAY 12
MAY 19
MAY 26
JUN 2
JUN 9
JUN 16
JUN 23
JUN 30
JUL 7
JUL 14
JUL 21
JUL 28
AUG 4
AUG 11
AUG 18
AUG 25
SEP 1
SEP 8
SEP 15
SEP 22
SEP 29
OCT 6
OCT 13
OCT 20
OCT 27
NOV 3
NOV 10
NOV 17
NOV 24
DEC 1
DEC 8
DEC 15
DEC 22
DEC 29
JAN 5
JAN 12
JAN 19
JAN 26
FEB 2
FEB 9
FEB 16
FEB 23
MAR 2
MAR 9
MAR 16
MAR 23
MAR 30
APR 6
APR 13
APR 20
APR 27
MAY 4
MAY 11
MAY 18
MAY 25
JUN 1
JUN 8
JUN 15
JUN 22
JUN 29
JUL 6
JUL 13
JUL 20
JUL 27
AUG 3
AUG 10
AUG 17
AUG 24
AUG 31
SEP 7
SEP 14
SEP 21
SEP 28
Sep 1, 2026
Do Our Loved Ones Send Us Signs? Real Stories of the Afterlife – Part 1
11:07
11:18

Louise BennettGUEST
So one thing that I have with a couple of my bereaved mother friends is... is we like to think that they all have a flat together.

Louise BennettGUEST
And when Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters tragically died, me and my husband were like, well, he's moved in upstairs.
Louise Bennett & Richard Bermange
36:46
36:57

Louise BennettGUEST
It's an expression that my boss in Germany used to use, which I thought was a really good one.

Louise BennettGUEST
That meant that I did so many rehearsals in different places that they actually gave the third cast to this student who'd been doing so many rehearsals, which is fine.
14 MINS LATER
Louise Bennetts + Laura Lees
2:56
3:05
3:15
3:38
12:04

Susanna BeaumontHOST
Can you tell me a little bit more about the fabric, the way you work in textiles?

Louise BennettGUEST
I'm a pattern cutter, clothes maker who... later got more interested in constructing textiles and surface application, and I feel like this is really a marriage of all of that experience.

Louise BennettGUEST
It's a three-paneled screen where the uprights are in birch plywood, the hinges, satisfyingly, are made from felts, so they're kind of soft textile hinges, And then the panels in the middle are made out of white cotton organdy, silk organza, and a slightly denser paneled fabric, which is actually an old curtain from my parents' home in London.

Louise BennettGUEST
It's called Leith to Silver Nails because that is the journey that my grandmother Nessie took effectively in her lifetime.
8 MINS LATER

Susanna BeaumontHOST
stick to a pavement but to create and there's some wonderful ones at Arthur's Seat and across Holyrood and they are tracks we're like sheep aren't we and tell me about where


