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Start the Week: Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival

Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival

09/11/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival

Anne McElvoy with Claudia Rankine, Amir Darwish, Jules Holroyd and Catherine Fletcher.

Cultural discussion programme. Anne McElvoy discusses race and bias with poets Claudia Rankine and Amir Darwish, philosopher Jules Holroyd and historian Catherine Fletcher.

Anne McElvoy presents a special edition of Start the Week at the Free Thinking Festival at Sage, Gateshead, exploring injustice, myth and the role of the poet 'to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides'. The American poet Claudia Rankine exposes the ever-present racial tensions in contemporary society, while the Syrian poet Amir Darwish, having arrived in the UK hanging underneath a lorry on a cross-channel ferry, writes of love, loss, exile and demonisation. The historian Catherine Fletcher looks at the stories told about Alessandro de'Medici, the 16th century duke of Florence who was believed to be mixed-race, and what those stories tell us about attitudes to race, while the philosopher Jules Holroyd tackles the thorny issue of implicit and unconscious bias.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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