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Free Thinking: Eleanor Marx, David Henry Hwang

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07/05/2014

Eleanor Marx, David Henry Hwang

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Eleanor Marx, David Henry Hwang

Philip Dodd meets playwright David Henry Hwang, plus Rachel Holmes discusses Eleanor Marx.

Tony award winning playwright David Henry Hwang talks about the Asian American experience with Philip Dodd, plus Rachel Holmes and Emma Griffin discuss Eleanor Marx's campaigns.

David Henry Hwang's play M Butterfly won a Tony and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. When he spoke out against Jonathan Pryce being cast in a Eurasion role for a Broadway production of Miss Saigon, the resulting controversy inspired both his play Face Value and the follow up drama Yellow Face. As the National Theatre's Shed venue stages this 2007 drama Yellow Face, he talks about reflecting life as an Asian American on stage.

Rachel Holmes' new biography of Eleanor Marx explores her campaigning. She discusses Eleanor Marx and her legacy with Emma Griffin - historian at University of East Anglia and author of Liberty's Dawn - A People's History of the Industrial Revolution and A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution 


Presenter: Philip Dodd 
Producer: Neil Trevithick.

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