A Song, A Book and A Dish Sue Nyathi, Author of the Polygamist
Drive with John Perlman · 17 July 2026 · 12m
Speaker 1: A Song, a Book and a Dish. Speaker 2: I'm seven two fourteen minutes to six. Imagine this. You write your first book when Speaker 2: you are just thirteen years old. Later, you write a book that you know really Speaker 2: is one that people will want to read. Nobody wants to publish it, so you Speaker 2: publish it yourself, and then the book gets discovered, and then the book gets turned Speaker 2: into a TV series that people can't stop talking about and people can't stop watching Speaker 2: literally all over the world. I'm talking about the book The Polygamous, but most importantly, Speaker 2: I'm talking to the author Sunyati, who's with us in the studio for our weekly Speaker 2: feature A Song, A Book and a Dish. Su Welcome, Thanks so much for making Speaker 2: time to spend time with us on seven oh two oh. Speaker 3: It's such a pleasure to be here. Speaker 1: So let me ask you this. Speaker 2: I can you know, we all find ourselves in other people's spaces where we can Speaker 2: hear them talking. So you might bequeuing for an aeroplane. You might be standing in Speaker 2: life because you've got milk, but other people have got trolley's full of stuff, so Speaker 2: the qu's taking a bit of time. You might be on a plane and somebody's Speaker 2: reading a book. Have you been in a situation where you can eavesdrop on people Speaker 2: either talking about the Polygamist on Netflix or the Polygamists in the book form with Speaker 2: which you launched it into the world. Speaker 4: All the time, I think, especially a few weeks ago. Yeah, you…
Listen in Visual Radio →