Interviews

"The lockdowns of the debut two years of the twenties were bleak, grim and at times downright depressing. You probably won’t welcome being reminded about them, but amongst any cloud there are always silver linings and for the lovely town of Lewes one of those silver linings was the arrival of Janine Booth."

I was delighted to have a chat with some old muckers for the Jamming! podcast, and the episode is now available for your listening pleasure. It also features my poem 'Lighting, Rigged' about being sexually assaulted as a teenager at a gig.

Listen here.

Janine chats with Pippa from Five Leaves about writing, politics, motivation, lockdown, poetry and much more. Warning: may contain poetry and book extracts!

Thomas McColl and Janine Booth on London Live on 16 April 2018, promoting the anthology, Poems for Grenfell Tower.

Includes a video extract of Janine's poem, Bring it Home.

This is the full text of the interview. A shortened version was published in Solidarity 555.

Watch the video of this interview here.

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I am Rhoda Dakar. I've been a professional musician for 40 years.

Janine Booth interviews musician Rhoda Dakar, who talks about Two-Tone, policing, the centrality of class and much much more! Read the full text of the interview here.

Rhoda was in The Bodysnatchers and The Special AKA, and performed in "Free Nelson Mandela"

Rhoda Dakar's latest single is Stand Together.

PJ aka the Repeat Beat Poet, is a hip hop and spoken word artist, and an activist. He spoke to Janine Booth, a trade unionist, Workers' Liberty activist, and poet about George Floyd Protest, police, fighting racism, and more.

In April 2015, the awesome Lunar Poetry Podcast interviewed Janine.

Listen to the podcast here (and listen to Lunar's many other most excellent poetry interviews and discussions)

Here's the transcript:

Host: David Turner – DT; Guest: Janine Booth – JB

Conversation:

Janine interviewed in 2015 by Stand Up and Spit about her 1980s incarnation as The Big J, ranting poet, and her 2010s poetic reincarnation.

Published on the Jessica Kingsley Publishers blog.

Autism educator Damian Milton (South Bank University, National Autistic Society) recently spoke with author Janine Booth about some of the issues raised in her new book, Autism Equality in the Workplace: Removing Barriers and Challenging Discrimination. During the interview Janine speaks at length about the importance of unions for employees with autism and how improved communication and understanding of autism by employers can benefit all workers.