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Arena: The Banana

on BBC Two England

Tonight's programme considers musa sapientum, the fruit of the wise. The Velvet Underground's John Cale tells the story behind Andy Warhol's famous LP cover, Auberon Waugh and John Walters recall their first encounters with the fruit after the war and footballer Brendan Batson considers how they became a symbol of racism hurled from the terraces.

(Another edition of Arena is tomorrow at 9.00 pm.)
(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cale
Interviewee:
Auberon Waugh
Interviewee:
John Walters
Director:
Kate Meynell
Series Editor:
Anthony Wall

BBC Two England

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