Breaking Down the Barriers

Arts & Ideas

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rana Mitter hears about a project that assesses the experiences of Muslim women in the UK cultural industries and talks to political artist John Keane. Author Katherine Rundell explains why adults should be reading children's books. Plus New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter on the sailor and activist Dada Amir Haider Khan and why his global approach to workers' rights has lessons for us now.

Beyond Faith: Muslim Women Artists Today which includes work by Usarae Gul is at the Whitworth, Manchester from Friday 14th June until October 2019

John Keane's exhibition If you knew me. If you knew yourself. You would not kill me. is at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh as part of the Aldeburgh Festival until Sunday 23rd June.

Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are Old And Wise by Katherine Rundell is published on 13th June.

New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the AHRC to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. You can hear more from the 2019 Thinkers in this launch programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004dsv

Majed Akhter teaches at King's College London.

You find hear the discussion about representations of Rwanda on TV and how the country has moved on from the conflict here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001dt8 Taryn Simon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q2pkg

Producer: Torquil MacLeod

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1:25.5	Hello, today I'm talking to people who are picking out the splinters as they bust through barriers.
1:31.4	Artists who don't look like Turner or even Damien Hurst.
1:34.7	A fellow of All Souls College who thinks we should all be reading more children's books.
1:38.5	And an Indian nationalist who was also a Pakistani communist.
1:43.2	But first, clothes that tell a terrifying story
1:46.0	from a quarter of a century ago.
1:49.0	So these are some of the pieces of clothing
1:52.0	which belong to those late victims that you see.
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