Cultural Revolution: this week’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance FM
An anarchist, a Trotskyist and a communist walk into a studio … Find out what happens next by listening to Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge at 5.30pm on Resonance FM. This week, Anna Chen looks at what...
View ArticleJohn Sinclair and modern heroes on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge Resonance FM,...
John Lennon sings “John Sinclair” MADAM MIAOW’S CULTURE LOUNGE 7/8 News, music and poetry RESONANCE 104.4FM Presented by Anna Chen 5.30-6.30pm Tuesday 26th November 2013 http://resonancefm.com/listen...
View ArticleAnna Chen wins at the Farrago Poetry Zoo Awards 2013
I’m delighted to report that I won the annual Farrago Poetry Zoo Award for Best Performance by a London Poet in 2013 the other week on 30th January. Held at the RADA Café in Malet Street, the...
View ArticleRestaging Revolutions on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM
This week on Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge’s guests are Dr Susan Croft and Neil Hornick of The Phantom Captain theatre company. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles Shaar Murray rides...
View ArticleChina’s science and cultural inventions on Madam Miaow at Resonance 104.4FM
On Resonance 104.4FM, Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge looks at China’s cultural and scientific contributions and inventions. Guests: Elizabeth Lawrence and Paul Anderson. Presented by Anna Chen. Charles...
View ArticleMore or Less Asian? Stereotypes in Literature: talk at Asia House 12th Nov 2014
The cuddly liberal Guardian thought this illustration was OK. The original photo of the squirrel before the Guardian’s Goebbels squad got on the job. I’m on a panel next Wednesday at Asia House for a...
View ArticleHow St Ives came to be one of the foremost art communities in Britain
St Ives in Cornwall romps home as the ideal town where most of us would like to live. ‘Fonly it wasn’t also the most expensive. Here’s a piece I wrote about the artists’ colony and Number One...
View ArticleChopsticks At Dawn on BBC Radio 4 Extra 2nd July
My programme, Chopsticks At Dawn, about chinoiserie clichés in music, is repeated tomorrow BBC Radio 4 Extra & iPlayer. It’s on four times: 6:30; 13:30; 20:30 and again the next morning at 06:30,...
View ArticleAnna May Wong: A Celestial Star in Piccadilly, BBC Radio 4 Extra tomorrow...
Anna May Wong: a celestial star in Piccadilly, BBC Radio 4 Extra, 06:30 and 13:30 Wednesday 16th March 2016 I had the great pleasure to make my programme on Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese...
View ArticleBBC Radio 4 Extra to repeat ST IVES AND ME Wed 21st Dec 6.30am, 1.30pm and...
Spend the longest night of the year with me on BBC Radio 4 Extra when St Ives and Me is repeated on December 21st ST IVES AND ME on BBC Radio 4 Extra. I’ve just learnt from my lovely producers, Mukti...
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