Literature and the refugee crisis featuring Khaled Hosseini and Nick Makoha

Southbank Centre's Book Podcast

This episode looks at migration, civil war, and the power of stories and poetry to take us beyond the headlines. Three years ago, the body of three-year-old Syrian refugee, Alan Kurdi was found on the beach in Turkey. This provoked Khaled Hosseini, best-selling author and Afghan refugee, to write the illustrated story, Sea Prayer. Ted Hodgkinson had poet Nick Makola in the studio where they talked about politics, family and his experience of fleeing Uganda as a child. "I connect with that man running from his country and not knowing he has to leave, with tears in his eyes, while he holds his mother's hand." NICK MAKOLA