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Hello, thanks for listening to this edition of Analysis. This is the Po- podcasts. And over the next half hour I'm going to be looking at the Vex debate about whether we should return contested works of arts in some of our best known museums.

This is the Art World's Me Too moment. We're now talking about that it's just not right for us in the West to

possess an entire culture and to say, well, they can't take care of it themselves,

we're preserving it for them it's just

not acceptable anymore to own another people.

Museums tell stories through what they put on show, how they display them, how they label them.

But sometimes the stories they tell are not the full stories, the stories of how these objects

came to be in the museum's collection in the first place.

150 years ago, Britain routinely carried out military operations across the globe and in the process

of these military campaigns. captured cultural property and sometimes

they raised entire cities to the ground.

And many of those objects are here at the Victoria now that we see today.

And many of these objects were then taken back to Britain and then given to the various

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