Original version

BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Free Thinking

Discussion & Talk

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews.

The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Rana Mitter

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Gaylene Gould

HO Nazareth

Sandeep Parmar

Ibrahim X Kendi

Free Thinking: Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US

Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US

12/07/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US

Including the art of the black power movement and the history of racist ideas in the US.

Presented by Rana Mitter. With an exhibition about the art of the black power movement and a discussion with Ibram X Kendi on the history of racist ideas in America.

Tate Modern offers a retrospective on the Art of the Black Power Movement in America and explores how 'Black Art' was defined by artists across the United States and its interplay with the civil rights movement. Rana Mitter is joined by Gaylene Gould, writer and artist and Head of Cinema and Events at the BFI, who reviews the 'Soul of A Nation' exhibition.
Rana is also joined by the reggae poet and recording artist, Linton Kwesi Johnson "Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon"', as well as the film director H O Nazareth to talk about the artists and intellectuals who made up the British Black Panther leadership. Also joining in the conversation, Sandeep Parmar, a prize-winning poet and New Generation Thinker who argues that a new generation of critics and reviewers must be found to highlight the work of poets of colour in the UK. 
Also, Rana Mitter talks to intellectual historian Ibram X Kendi as his award-winning account of racist ideas in the United States comes out in the UK. 

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at London's Tate Modern 12/07/2017 - 22/10/2017


Pres: Rana Mitter
Guests: Linton Kwesi Johnson
 Gaylene Gould 
 H O Nazareth
 Sandeep Parmar 'Eidolon', Winner of the inaugural Ledbury Forte Prize for Second Collections, is out now. 
 Ibram X Kendi 'Stamped from the Beginning: A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America' is out now. 

Photo: Ibram X Kendi Credit: Penguin Random House.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Free Thinking

Art in the Age of Black Power, History of Racist Ideas in US

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3