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The Story

Bristol: A tale of two statues

The Story

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, statues have fallen like dominoes around the world, and a new discussion about the people commemorated in our public spaces has begun. We go back to Bristol where the week's events started, and learn why Colston's legacy is still so pervasive in the city. We also hear of a campaign to replace Colston with a statue of some very different figures from the city's past.


Guests: 

Marvin Rees, Mayor of Bristol

Will Humphries, Southwest correspondent for The Times

Keri Andriana, granddaughter of civil rights campaigner Roy Hackett


Host: 

Manveen Rana


Clips:

CBS, BBC, ITV, The Sun, BFI, WVCB


Additional music: Jordan Powell, Chris Zabriskie (licenced under Creative Commons).



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm just going to put in the website Tople the Racists.org.

0:10.0

Ah, it's brought up a website with a map of Britain on it, lots of little pinpoints.

0:16.2

Topple the racists take down statues and monuments in the UK that celebrates slavery and racism.

0:23.0

We believe these statues and other memorials to slave owners and colonialists

0:28.0

need to be removed so that Britain can finally face the truth about its past and how it shapes our present.

0:35.0

I'm just zooming in on one in the middle.

0:38.0

Cecil Rhodes, Oxford. What's of all? That's all! Gives us all!

0:44.0

Gives us all!

0:45.0

What's claims to be in support of creating an equal space for students of all backgrounds,

0:48.0

but how can they with glorified white supremacist

0:51.0

as a figurehead for one of their colleges.

0:54.0

Just moving further west, Shrewsbury, the statue to Robert Clive, otherwise known as Clive

0:58.6

of Indir, is celebrated on a plinth in the main square of Shrewsbury.

1:02.8

Clive played a central role in seizing control of a large sway of Bangladesh, Bhutan,

1:07.4

India Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, another one of these?

1:11.0

Birmingham, Robert Peel's statue in Edgborston.

1:14.3

Robert Peel created the modern concept of policing which has disproportionately

1:18.8

targeted the poor and ethnic minorities worldwide for centuries.

1:22.0

Controversial.

1:24.0

Bristol,

1:27.0

Edward Colston was a slave trader.

1:30.0

Now his statue is underwater.

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