ALBION: CAROLINE LUCAS
Welcome to Albion — our exploration of what it means to be English, and what we mean by England.
In this episode of OffScript, Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton is joined by Caroline Lucas for a thoughtful and urgent conversation about Englishness — beyond flags and nostalgia.
Drawing on her book Another England, Caroline shares her thoughts on how land, belonging and identity shape our politics and our culture; how England’s stories have been constructed and contested; and why reclaiming a generous, complex vision of England matters now.
Since 2022, Dash Arts has been digging into landscape and language — from reimagining Middlemarch by George Eliot in 1980s Coventry, to running speech-making workshops with more than 600 people across the country. We’ve been listening to who we are — and who we could be.
Join us as we ask: what does Englishness mean to you?
Albion will culminate in 2026 with our new touring theatre production, Our Public House. Get your tickets and to find out more on the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house
Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi
