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A Funny Kind of World: Episode 4

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Episode 4

BBC Radio Scotland - A Funny Kind of World, Episode 4

Challenging comedy and chat on race, religion and culture, featuring Terry Alderton.

Julia Sutherland introduces an international range of comedians including Terry Alderton, with honest and challenging stand-up and chat covering race, religion and culture.

Does race ever make you feel awkward? Julia Sutherland introduces an international range of comedians, each with their own perspective on race, religion and culture in today's society. Fresh from the stage, Julia talks to some of the comedians to find out the reality behind their stories. 

In this final episode of the series we hear from South African superstar Loyiso Gola, who explains the wide range of race and cultural issues in his homeland before telling the best Nelson Mandela joke you will ever hear. Australian Muslim Nazeem Hussain is well aware of the divides across the world and experiences abuse on the internet everyday - but he doesn't let it get to him; he has his own way of turning the tables on the trolls. In conversation Nazeem explains the extent of everyday racism in his life, and how he and others have to adapt just to get through the day. Originally from Japan, Yuriko Kotani moved to the UK twelve years ago and is still amazed by some of the cultural differences, not least the punctuality of the trains. Closing the show is Terry Alderton, a man very sure of where the boundaries are and he's very happy to antagonise those who don't. In the studio he talks about his long history of kicking against the overly cautious censors, whilst on stage he plays an Indian character that is happy to abuse customers to entertain himself.

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