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My Pride Playlist - Paul Burston
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Writer and journalist PAUL BURSTON steps up to the My Pride Playlist microphone on Monday to pick his top Pride tracks.
Paul chats through his varied career including writing for Attitude, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and Time Out, his role as curator and host of the award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon Polari and founder of The Polari Prize book awards for LGBTQ+ writers and featuring in the British Council’s Global List of ‘33 visionary people promoting freedom, equality and LGBT rights around the world’ in 2016.
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