Free Thinking - Paul Foot Award
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4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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As this year's Paul Foot Awards are announced for campaigning and investigative journalism, Anne McElvoy reports from the ceremony and talks to this year's winner. Anne also talks to the Director of the London School of Economics, the sociologist Dr Craig Calhoun about the things that inspired him to take up a career in the social sciences. The artist Alinah Azadeh talks about her latest project, two banners celebrating the 1965 Race Relations Act and the 1897 founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies now hanging in the Palace of Westminster with New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton.
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| 0:32.0 | Tonight on free thinking, we're getting our creative juices flowing as part of the BBC's Get |
| 0:37.1 | Creative Campaign, |
| 0:38.6 | considering the arts, and how we find different ways to value them. |
| 0:42.7 | Craig Culcun, director of the London School of Economics, has been exploring that with me. |
| 0:47.6 | As Westminster's Great Hall is bedecked with banners in an exhibition called The Beginnings of That Freedom, |
| 0:53.6 | Alina Azade, one of the artists involved, will be talking to me about the role of banners in an exhibition called The Beginnings of That Freedom, Alina Azaday, one of the artists involved, will be talking to me about the role of banners |
| 0:58.3 | in the fight for women's suffrage and other moments of protest. But first, I've just |
| 1:03.9 | escaped the celebrating hacks at the Paul Foot Awards, a ceremony for investigative and campaigning |
| 1:09.7 | journalism and a hotly fought for prize in Fleet Street. |
| 1:14.2 | Among this year's contenders were teams from the Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph |
| 1:18.2 | who both investigated bribery allegations about the successful Qatar 2020 soccer World Cup bid, |
| 1:25.6 | The Guardian and George Mombio's investigation |
| 1:28.4 | of farmers' role in winter flooding here in Britain, |
| 1:32.0 | and the sexual abuse of women at Yarlswood Detention Centre |
| 1:35.6 | from the Observer's Mark Townsend. |
| 1:38.4 | Before the ceremony, though, I caught up with Ian Hyslop, |
| 1:41.6 | editor of Private Eye, which sponsors the prize, |
| 1:44.8 | and Ian's also one of the judges, And I discussed with him, the state of investigative journalism. In this, |
| 1:50.5 | the 10th year of the awards, named after a veteran of the trade. Well, it's been actually a terribly |
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