Free Thinking - Scotland, Wales and the Ukraine: New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan. The 2016 Caine Prize.

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🗓️ 7 July 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan explores the links between Wales and Ukraine. Later this month the Wales Book of the Year Awards take place. We hear from Dr Emma Schofield about the way Welsh fiction has reflected debates since devolution. And talk to Lidudumalingani - winner of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing. And Alex Massie and Professor Richard Wyn Jones discuss the view from Scotland and Wales after the Brexit referendum.

Dr Victoria Donovan researches Russian history and culture at the University of St Andrews. The New Generation Thinkers prize is an initiative launched by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to find the brightest minds from across the UK who have the potential to transform their research into engaging broadcast programmes. You can hear more about the research topics of all 10 2016 New Generation Thinkers on our website. You can read the Caine Prize story here http://caineprize.com/2016-shortlist/

The Wales Book of the Year Awards are announced on Thursday 21 July. The shortlists are: The Roland Mathias Poetry Award: Love Songs of Carbon, Philip Gross /Boy Running, Paul Henry /Pattern beyond Chance, Stephen Payne The Rhys Davies Fiction Award: The Girl in the Red Coat, Kate Hamer/ We Don't Know What We're Doing, Thomas Morris / I Saw a Man, Owen Sheers The Open University in Wales Creative Non-Fiction Award: Losing Israel, Jasmine Donahaye / Woman Who Brings the Rain, Eluned Gramich / Wales Unchained, Daniel G. Williams Aberystwyth University Welsh-language Poetry Award: Nes Draw, Mererid Hopwood / Hel llus yn y glaw, Gruffudd Owen / Eiliadau Tragwyddol, Cen Williams Welsh-language Fiction Award: Norte, Jon Gower / Y Bwthyn, Caryl Lewis / Rifiera Reu, Dewi Prysor The Open University in Wales Welsh-language Creative Non-Fiction Award: Pam Na Fu Cymru, Simon Brooks / Dyddiau Olaf Owain Glyndwr, Gruffydd Aled Williams / Is-deitla'n Unig, Emyr Glyn Williams

Producer: Ruth Watts

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0:32.4	Well, hello, and tonight the view from the various countries of the United Kingdom,
0:37.2	a view that in recent weeks has taken in this.
0:40.8	That's it.
0:41.6	Come on.
0:44.0	Wales have beaten Belgium.
0:46.5	Last Thursday, Wales narrowly voted to leave the European Union.
0:51.4	This is not a situation that I wanted Scotland or the UK to be in today.
0:56.0	Scotland did not let you down. Please, I beg you, shak a leg. Do not let Scotland down now.
1:05.0	That's the final whistle. Wales's epic journey has come to an end. It's a kiss on both cheeks to France. Wales are bowing out and going home.
1:17.4	Wales waves goodbye there to Euro 2016 and Welsh and Scots politicians, Alan Smith, Nicholas Sturgeon and Lianne Wood, face the consequences of the UK's Brexit referendum.
1:29.6	Tonight we look through a wider geographical lens, hearing about links between South Wales and Ukraine
1:35.3	from 2016 New Generation Thinker Victoria Donovan. We'll also be exploring literary prizes
1:42.8	and a development of national literatures.
1:46.0	With the winner of the Wales Book of the Year awards announced this month, we hear how Welsh fiction has reflected debates since devolution.
1:54.0	And I've been talking to Lidudu Malangani-Qwambothi, winner of the Kane Prize for African Writing.
2:00.4	And Alex Massey and Richard
2:01.7	Wyn Jones will be disentangling the pressures on the devolved nations and our ideas of the
2:07.2	United Kingdom in the wake of that Brexit vote. But first, the winner of Wales Book of the Year
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