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Tuesday, May 5, 2020: Wesley King, Alisa Palmer and more

Today on q: children's author Wesley King, actor Hamza Haq, theatre director and playwright Alisa Palmer, punk musician Joe Keithley, dub poet d'bi.young anitafrika.
Tom Power is the host of CBC Radio’s q. (Dustin Rabin)

Today on q, with host Tom Power:

  • Children's author Wesley King talks about collaborating with the late Kobe Bryant on The Wizenard Series, which is about the ups and downs of youth basketball, and what's possible with hard work and a little magic.

  • Actor Hamza Haq discusses his starring role on the new CTV medical drama Transplant, and shares how it feels to finally play a fully-formed character after years of getting bit parts like cab drivers, convenience store owners and terrorists.

  • The National Theatre School's artistic director, Alisa Palmer, explains how young theatre artists have completely reimagined their plays to move them into the digital sphere.

  • Punk musician-turned-politician Joe Keithley talks about his new pandemic-inspired anthem, We're All in This Together.

  • Poet d'bi.young anitafrika pays tribute to her creative muse — her mother, pioneer dub poet Anita Stewart.

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