Tresha Lionel

GO THERE with Tresha Lionel

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Go There with Tresha Lionel explores the culture, politics, and lived experience across the Caribbean and beyond. Through intimate conversations and sharp storytelling, Tresha Lionel interrogates complexity, challenges assumptions, and insists that we go there.

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Tresha Lionel

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Conversation with Asha Lovelace: Caribbean Film and the Question of Agency 03.05.2026 14:23

Asha Lovelace is a filmmaker, CEO, and Director of the Caribbean Film Festival, and the daughter of Earl Lovelace, one of the most defining literary voices of the region. In this conversation, we move beyond the ease of legacy and into demanding weight of it. Asha reflects on finding her own voice while adapting her father’s work across mediums and generations, and what it means to create in a mom...

Conversation with Eleanor Shearer: Filling the Archival Gaps in Caribbean Storytelling 04.04.2026 33:29

In this episode of Go There with Tresha Lionel , I sit down with Eleanor Shearer, author of River Sing Me Home. In it, a runaway slave moves across the Caribbean in search of her children taken from her. We dive into the challenges of writing about lives erased or reduced by history. What does it mean to rebuild stories from records that saw people as property or numbers? And what responsibility...