Lindsay Johns
Writer & Broadcaster
Lindsay has written travel articles for the Evening Standard newspaper on Kingston Jamaica, Glasgow, New Orleans, Hong Kong, New York, learning to scuba dive in Malaysian Borneo, Sydney, Cape Town, carnival in the Dominican Republic, Marseille, Chicago, a Mandela tour to Jo’burg, Soweto and Cape Town and on Bermuda and the Coloured side of Cape Town for Spectator Life.
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He has also had many pieces about his various travels broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service’s flagship programme From Our Own Correspondent, including on a taxi journey on the Cape Flats, a conversation about race, culture and identity in Martinique, the search for soul food in Chicago, amorous seduction in Santo Domingo, Coloured identity in Cape Town in the wake of Wayde Van Niekerk’s Olympic 400m gold medal victory, on journeying from Harvard to Harlem, on the 50th anniversary of the forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, on celebrating the life of his Martinican mum Paulette, on the linguistic challenges of filling up with petrol in the new South Africa, on how immigration into Cape Town is changing the face of the city, on the army being deployed into the townships on the Cape Flats to quell gang violence, on the funeral of his adopted Martinican father, on gentrification in the South Bronx, and the current state of Oakland, California.