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Tom Sutcliffe

Tiffany Jenkins

Tendai Huchu

Ellen McAdam

Waldemar Januszczak

Hannah Robins

Start the Week: Who Owns Culture?

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15/02/2016

Who Owns Culture?

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Who Owns Culture?

Tom Sutcliffe with Tiffany Jenkins, Tendai Huchu, Ellen McAdam and Waldemar Januszczak.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses who owns culture, with writer Tiffany Jenkins, Zimbabwean novelist Tendai Huchu, museum director Ellen McAdam and art critic Waldemar Januszczak.

On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe discusses who owns culture. The writer Tiffany Jenkins tells the story of how western museums have come to acquire treasures from around the world, but dismisses the idea of righting the wrongs of the past by returning artefacts. The Zimbabwean writer Tendai Huchu believes the west shouldn't underestimate the impact of colonisation on cultural identity. Ellen McAdam, Director of Birmingham Museums Trust, discusses the pressures regional museums are under. While the art critic Waldemar Januszczak eschews traditional views of Renaissance art, arguing that far from a classical Italian form, its roots are in the 'barbarian' lands of Flanders and Germany.
Producer: Hannah Robins.

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