Description
Celebrate Bradford-born J.B. Priestley’s Postscript radio broadcasts more than 80 years after they were first aired on BBC radio in this panel discussion.
During Britain’s darkest hours in the Second World War, Priestley’s softly spoken Yorkshire tones helped boost the nation’s morale. They reveal a lost world of make-do-and mend, of tongue sandwiches and Bradford pie shops.
Writer and academic, Dr Mark Goodall, from the University of Bradford has worked with Bradford creatives to reinvent a new set of ‘postscripts’ for BBC radio inspired by Priestley’s original postscipts. Host Mark is joined by daughter of Bradford, crime-writer Saima Mir, Saltaire’s resident muso Bob Stanley, and Bradford-born Furaha Mussanzi, as they celebrate the links between Priestley and Bradford before telling their own personal stories about the modern world.
About the Speakers
Saima Mir
Saima Mir is a journalist who has written for The Times, Guardian and Independent. Her debut novel, The Khan, was a Times Bestseller, a Guardian best crime and thriller and a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. She contributed to the anthology The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood. Saima grew up in Bradford, where she worked as a rookie crime reporter and now lives in London. Vengeance is her second novel.
Furaha Mussanzi
Furaha Mussanzi is a community activist, storyteller and singer/songwriter passionate about her faith, social justice and using creative means to build bridges and promote peace. Having grown up in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo and migrated to Bradford 20 years ago as a refugee, she completed her undergrad in Interior Design before getting a Master’s degree in African Peace and conflict studies at the University of Bradford and spent 6 years managing the Millside Community Centre. Hospitality and seeing others reach their potential makes her come alive.
She is currently working as the Pastoral Care Leader for the Light Church and was appointed as an Ecumenical Canon at Bradford Cathedral. Her deep Christian faith and values is central to everything she does, but outside of her calling to serve others, she also loves travelling, meeting new people, cooking and creating content on her YouTube channel.
Bob Stanley
Bob Stanley is a writer, musician and film producer. Since 1987, he has written about music for the Face, Smash Hits, NME, the Guardian, the Times, the LA Times and the Paris Review. Bob is a member of the Mercury-nominated pop group Saint Etienne, and has written two acclaimed pop music histories that span the 20th century – Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop and Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop , which won the 2023 Penderyn Prize. His coming book is The Bee Gees: Children Of The World.
About the Chair
Dr Mark Goodall
Mark Goodall is an Associate Professor in Film at the University of Bradford. He has published books on the Beatles, The Beatles or The White Album, music and the occult Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation, and shock cinema of the 1960s Sweet and Savage: the World, Through the Mondo Film Lens . He co-edited New Media Archaeology and edited a special edition of Film International. He has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The New European and Shindig! and plays with the group Rudolf Rocker.
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