The Dorothy Edit with Dorothy Koomson

Awakened by Kelechi Okafor   Kelechi Okafor is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, writer, presenter, actor, and political commentator. She is the creator of the podcast Say Your Mind, which explores self-reclamation through an unflinching critique of society. She has written books for children, young adults, and adults, often addressing Black identity and systemic injustice. Kelechi...

Paula Akpan is a historian and journalist. Her writing has appeared in British Vogue, Teen Vogue, The Independent, The i Paper , VICE, GAY TIMES, The Bookseller, DIVA Magazine, i-D and more. Her essays have featured in Loud Black Girls , The Queer Bible and The Black History Book .   Paula holds a BA in Sociology and an MA in Black British History. Her MA dissertation examined the personal, i...

Louise Minchin and Isolation Island Louise Minchin is most famous for her twenty-year stint on BBC Breakfast's red sofa, but she has also been the main news anchor on the BBC News Channel and the BBC's One O'clock News and presented The One Show, Five Live Drive, Real Rescues and Missing Live. She’s also participated in a number of reality TV shows including ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Her...

Kit de Waal and The Best of Everything Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother and a Caribbean father. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law, was a magistrate for several years and sits on adoption panels. She used to advise Social Services on the care of foster children, and has written training manuals on adoption, foster care and judgecraft for members of the jud...

Sareeta Domingo and Possibility Sareeta Domingo is the author of several novels ) and creator, editor and contributing writer of romantic fiction anthology Who's Loving You . Her novel If I Don't Have You was shortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2021. She has also written numerous erotic short stories and an erotic novella with Pavilion Books, and her books for Young Adults are published under...

Let’s get to it, lovelies. What came in the post for me, apart from an extortionate water bill? Books by Emily Barr, Lisa Jewell, Mel Pennant and Sareeta Domingo. Listen to find out what they’re about.   Which book adaptations have been on my TV screens? Slow Horses, Disclaimer and Get Millie Black. Listen to find out what I think of them.   Hope you enjoy this episode of The Dorothy Edi...