This week, we look at two visionary projects amplifying the voices of refugees. Claire takes a walk with a group of latter-day pilgrims who are using Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a template for telling stories of injustice and survival. Then she meets a publisher who went to Lebanon to write a novel with Syrian and Palestinian refugees in a camp outside Beirut.

Music by the Chorus of Dissent, the Elastic Band, Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar, and the St Michael and All Angels Steel Orchestra.

Reading list

Refugee Tales, as told to Ali Smith, Patience Agbabi and more (Comma Press)

Shatila Stories (Peirene)

