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Free Thinking - School Report

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BBC

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4.2598 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Anne McElvoy hears from young people involved in the BBC's School Report Day. School children who have come to north-east England from other countries describe what home means. Writer Bidisha and sociologist David Ralph discuss how migrants and refugees construct a sense of home. Also, ahead of a new exhibition, British Museum curator Ian Jenkins and classicist Edith Hall discuss ideas of beauty in ancient Greece and how the body was portrayed.

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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, it's 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 at some level of genius. It also helps

0:21.2

that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

0:26.1

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds.

0:32.1

Hello and on the program tonight, the eternal lure of beauty in ancient Greece. But first, over 1,000 schools and more than 30,011 to 16-year-olds have been turning

0:43.1

their classrooms into newsrooms today and sharing their stories with the BBC for the ninth

0:48.8

annual BBC School Report Newsday.

0:51.3

We have a contribution made by school reporters from Excelsior

0:55.8

Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Marden High School in North Shields. Students have come to the

1:01.7

UK from other countries talk about what home means to them and the challenges they've faced

1:06.8

in establishing a sense of home in a new country. Namikur Shed Desira.

1:12.5

That means home is where the heart is in Lithuanian.

1:16.1

I'm Latouris and I'm a school reporter from Excelsian Year 7.

1:20.8

Home is why you can go home and be confident and people there support you

1:26.3

and you know that they'll support you no matter what.

1:30.5

It could be either family or friend.

1:33.2

If you know them, knowing them for a long time, then they're like your family but they're not.

1:40.9

I'm Sargam and I'm a school reporter from Excelsia Academy in year 7.

1:46.0

My home is like when you have people who love you around you and like you're in a comfortable environment.

1:53.9

You're like you know the people with you and you have your friends and your family with you.

1:58.7

I'm Shakira. I'm from Excelsia.

2:01.1

I'm a school reporter in Year 7.

2:03.1

Home is to me when a place where you live with your family,

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