Show and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where  speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their  stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: bit.ly/showandtellqm. This  episode features Wasafiri magazine editor Susheila Nasta, Medieval  broadcaster Hetta Howes, podcaster Raifa Rafiq, researcher Emma Shapiro  and puppeteer Edie Edmundson. Full biogs below.

The show is introduced by Beverley Stewart and hosted by Charlie Pullen from the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary.

Charlie Pullen

Charlie  Pullen is a PhD candidate and Teaching Associate in English at Queen  Mary University of London, where he researches education in the work of  various early twentieth-century novelists, including H.G. Wells, D.H.  Lawrence, and Dorothy Richardson. His background is in widening  participation and outreach and he writes for Times Higher Education.

Susheila Nasta

Professor  Susheila Nasta, Prof of Modern and Contemporary Literature at QMUL,  Emerita at Open University is a renowned critic, broadcaster and  literary activist. Editor-in-chief at Wasafiri, the magazine of  international contemporary writing, which she founded in 1984, she has  published widely on South Asian Britain.

www.wasafiri.org

Hetta Howes

Dr  Hetta Howes is a lecturer in Medieval Literature at City, University of  London. Her research specialises in women's devotion in the Middle  Ages, and as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker she is committed to  sharing that research with a wider audience.

Raifa Rafiq

Raifa  Rafiq is a trainee solicitor at one of the leading international law  firms in the UK. She is also creator and co-host of the Literature and  popular culture podcast Mostly Lit - named by the Guardian and the BBC  as one of the top podcasts of 2017.

mostly-lit.com

Emma Shapiro

After  graduating with a BA in English and French from Queen Mary, Emma  Shapiro was awarded a scholarship to complete an MA in London Studies,  where she specialised in the Trinidadian writer Sam Selvon's London  fiction. Following her studies, Emma worked as a voluntary researcher for the Migration Museum project and as the graduate trainee at Pembroke  College Library, Cambridge, where she curated an exhibition on the poet  and co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Kamau Brathwaite,  working in collaboration with the George Padmore Institute.

Edie Edmundson

Edie  is a puppeteer and theatre maker who graduated from Drama at QM in 2015  and went on to train at the Curious School of Puppetry. Since then she  has worked with Emma Rice at Shakespeare's Globe, the Royal Shakespeare  Company and the Puppet Theatre Barge. She also writes and directs her  own work, and is co-founder and associate director of Wondering Hands  Theatre. She is currently puppeteering in 'The Butterfly's Spell' at the  Puppet Theatre Barge and is puppetry director for 'The Comedy of  Errors' at the RSC.