Adjoa Andoh on Zora Neale Hurston
Actor Adjoa Andoh, known worldwide as Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, chooses the iconic American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. Presented by Matthew Parris.
Actor Adjoa Andoh has a list of TV, theatre and film credits as long as your arm. She's best known worldwide as Bridgerton's Lady Danbury, and is due to direct - and star in the title role - in a new production of Richard III. Her great life is the 20th century American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, author of "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
An iconic figure in the literature of the jazz age, her name was all but forgotten after her death in 1960, before being pulled back into public consciousness in the US by "The Color Purple" author Alice Walker, who famously wrote: "A people do not throw their geniuses away".
With the help of fellow enthusiast Dr Janine Bradbury, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Culture at the University of York, Adjoa makes the case that we should all know more about Zora, a trailblazer who - on top of her writing career - researched zombies in the Caribbean and helped collect the stories of slavery's last survivors.
Presenter: Matthew Parris
Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton
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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.