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From Our Own Correspondent: Weekend Edition: Cultural Heritage

Weekend Edition: Cultural Heritage

23/11/2013

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Weekend Edition: Cultural Heritage

Stories of tradition and change from Vietnam, Norway, India, Denmark, Nigeria and Jersey

Changing tradition: from Vietnamese youth to Indian saris, the Lagos music scene, Jersey's apple butter, the Danish language, songs of the Saami in Norway and art destroyed in WW2

Pascale Harter presents a compendium of recent dispatches about how we express our identity in song, image, dress, language, keepsakes and food. Rajan Datar meets some of the young Vietnamese hipsters who'd rather not mention the war. Anu Anand gets to grips with tying a sari without looking like "a silky sack of potatoes", while Will Ross tunes in to the sounds of a flourishing arts scene in Lagos. Christine Finn takes her turn stirring a pot of boiling "beurre noir" in Jersey and learns why apples were the island's original bounty, before tax breaks or the potato crop. Emma Thomas is still somewhat tongue-tied trying to speak Danish, while David Shukman's right at home in frozen Finnmark with the seminomadic Saami people. And David Mazower contemplates a whole world of people - and possessions - swept away from Eastern Europe during World War II.
Producer: Polly Hope

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