Working Class Literature
Episodes
E14: Live from the Working Class Literature Festival
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Following our double-episode on the Florence Working-Class Literature Festival back in February, our co-host Matt was invited to this year’s festi...
E13: Jack Hilton, Rochdale Caliban, part 2
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of our double episode on working-class author Jack Hilton, with Jack Chadwick whose literary detective work rescued Hilton from almost total ob...
E12: Jack Hilton, Rochdale Caliban, part 1
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of our double episode about Jack Hilton, a working-class author, World War I veteran, unemployed movement organiser, and trade union activist f...
E11: Florence Working-Class Literature Festival
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of our double-episode about the Working-Class Literature Festival held every year in Florence, at the former GKN car parts factory, which was t...
E10: Florence Working-Class Literature Festival
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
First of a double-episode podcast about the Working-Class Literature Festival held every year in Florence, at the former GKN car parts factory, which ...
E9: Chinese migrant worker poetry, part 3
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode of our three-part series about migrant worker poetry in China. We speak to Maghiel van Crevel, Professor of Chinese Language and Lit...
E8: Chinese migrant worker poetry, part 2
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of our three-part series about migrant worker poetry in China. We speak to Maghiel van Crevel, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at ...
E7: Chinese migrant worker poetry, part 1
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
First of the three-part series on migrant worker poetry in China. In these episodes, we speak to Maghiel van Crevel, Professor of Chinese Language and...
E6: DD Johnston's proletarian apocalypse, part 2
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Concluding part of our double-episode in conversation with author, DD Johnston, about his new novel, Disnaeland.In this part, Darren discusses the nov...
E5: DD Johnston's proletarian apocalypse, part 1
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The first of a two-part episode, Working Class Literature speak to DD Johnston about his new novel, Disnaeland, about a working-class Scottish communi...
E4 Michael Rosen's socialist fairy tales, part 2
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of our double-episode in which we talk to acclaimed author, poet and Professor of Children’s Literature, Michael Rosen, about his anthology, ...
E3 Michael Rosen's socialist fairy tales, part 1
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Working Class Literature podcast double-episode in which we talk to acclaimed author, poet and Professor of Children's Literature, Michael Rosen, ab...
E2 Joseph Skipsey: poet and pitman
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode two of the Working Class Literature podcast about Joseph Skipsey, a poet and coal miner from the North East of England. After entering the min...
E1 T-Bone Slim: the laureate of the logging camps
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Podcast episode about the life and work of radical hobo author T-Bone Slim. A prolific columnist for the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World...