Looting and the UK Riots: as above, so below
Who could forget the big crisps heist of the summer of 2011? With Poundland in front of us and our comrades behind us, we held the world and special-offer broken biscuits in the palms of our hands,...
View ArticleBig Society: a conversation at the Foundling Museum
A little bit of politics, laydees an’ gennelmen with “Big Society: on a conversation at the Foundling Museum”. Recorded at Café Art during the St Ives Arts Festival September 2011. Written in June...
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Anna May Wong Must Die pix
Satire, sex and politics. Photos of the final show of this run at the New Diorama Theatre, Saturday 12th November 2011. Legendary culture writer Charles Shaar Murray and The Plague’s Marc Jefferies...
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Steampunk Opium Wars extravaganza at Greenwich National Maritime Museum
Britain’s craving for chinoiserie in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in a trade imbalance that threatened to empty the treasury. To pay for the tea, silks, spices and porcelain we liked so much,...
View ArticleLIVE STREAM The Steampunk Opium Wars
Get ready from 6.30pm on Thursday 16th February because we have a live stream of the show from the National Maritime Museum. Show kicks off at 6.45pm. It’ll be just like you were there. Click on these...
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Photos of The Steampunk Opium Wars
The first photos in from The Steampunk Opium Wars staged Thursday 16th February 2012 to almost 300 people at the National Maritime Museum. Photographs by Jan Jefferies taken on my Lumix TZ20 camera...
View ArticlePOEM: Copper Comes A Cropper – today’s Leveson Inquiry hearing
Copper Comes A Cropper Monday 5th March 2012 A little bit of sympathy at the back, there. Puh-leaze. Let’s be ‘aving yew. At the Leveson inquiry The cruellest moment is when Sir Paul Stephenson, The...
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Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies: Anna Chen on the Chinese model operas, BBC R4
MADAM MAO’S GOLDEN OLDIES BBC Radio 4 11:30am, Tuesday 17th July 2012 Presented and co-written by Anna Chen Produced by Mukti Jain Campion for Culture Wise In Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies, I revisit...
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British East Asian Actors statement on the RSC Orphan of Zhao casting
The British East Asian Actors group (of which I am one) has issued a statement concerning the recent RSC casting debacle over The Orphan of Zhao. British East Asian Actors STATEMENT 30th October 2012...
View ArticleCredit Crunch Suicide: May Day poetry
Had a lovely gig last week at the Morning Star‘s May Day celebrations in Kilburn, London. Also playing, singer songwriter Sean Taylor, a wonderful guitarist. Q Magazine called him, “A bluesey...
View ArticleMargaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz: May Day poetry from Anna Chen
Anna Chen’s first public reading of her poem “Margaret Thatcher Died at the Ritz”, written on the day news broke that the former prime minister had died … at the Ritz! Thanks to Charles Shaar Murray...
View ArticleI am Rich and You are Poor: lines on dead Chinese cocklepickers and their...
Anna Chen reads her poem, “I am Rich and You are Poor: lines on dead Chinese cocklepickers and their rich benefactors” about the 21 people who died at Morecambe Bay in 2004. Performed at the Morning...
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Royal baby birth poem: Eating Placenta
Don’t ever accuse me of being behind on the news. I’ve been keeping up with the momentous event via regular reports from The Onion, and very grateful I am too. Otherwise I might have missed it. As...
View ArticleAnna Chen’s “Poetry Against the Cuts” workshop week comencing 7 October
I’m delighted to be giving my “Poetry Against the Cuts” class at The Orwell Prize Wigan Pier Workshops in the week commencing 7 October. Paul Anderson is also on the bill giving a talk on the history...
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Anna’s Resonance 104.4FM series starts 15th October
I read some pert, perky and pertinent poetry at last night’s pre-The Fu Manchu Complex public debate at the Oval House Theatre. The main event in the evening, a satire by actor Daniel York who was at...
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Teaching the Wigan Pier Workshops hosted by the Orwell Prize
Some of the lovely students from the afternoon session of my Poetry Against the Cuts class at the Wigan Pier Workshops, presented by the Orwell Prize. The workshops are held in the delightful bright...
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Madam Mao’s Golden Oldies repeated on BBC R4 26 Oct 2013
MADAM MAO’S GOLDEN OLDIES REPEATED 26TH OCTOBER 2013, FIRST BROADCAST 17TH JULY 2012 BBC Radio 4 at 3.30pm, Saturday 26th October 2013 Presented and co-written by Anna Chen Produced by Mukti Jain...
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Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge launched on Resonance FM
Last night’s exciting launch programme of my new Resonance FM radio series — Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge — is now available to listen online. Share a cultural first and check it out here. “Oh Other...
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Cultural Revolution: this week’s Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on Resonance FM
An anarchist, a Trotskyist and a communist walk into a studio … Find out what happens next by listening to Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge at 5.30pm on Resonance FM. This week, Anna Chen looks at what...
View ArticleWhy we need to look at the Super Rich: BBC’s Britain on the Fiddle is a disgrace
Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge on the Super Rich, the real Britain the Fiddle, on Resonance FM. You’d suspect all that talk about the BBC being left-biased is a crock designed to take our eyes off what...
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