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Arts & Ideas

Catch 22, Recycling fashion, Fred D'Aguiar, Wu Mali

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2599 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Anne McElvoy, former Colonel Lincoln Jopp MC & novelist Benjamin Markovits on the new TV Catch-22. Jade Halbert on recycling fashion. Poet Fred D'Aguiar on winning the Cholmondeley Prize and Wu Mali on socially engaged art.

Producer: Zahid Warley

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

0:23.3

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0:27.5

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0:28.8

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0:33.3

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0:36.9

Hello, I'm Anne McAlvoy.

0:39.2

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0:43.7

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0:48.5

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1:26.9

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subscribe to this classical life. Hello, vintage is a versatile word. If you're talking about

1:38.2

clothes as we will be later, it can mean both special and secondhand. If you're talking about

1:44.0

socially engaged art, another of our subjects,

1:47.1

well, one person's old hat is another's brilliant reinvention.

1:51.3

We're hoping to avoid disappointment by picking our vintages with care,

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