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BBC Asian Network's Big Debate: Nomia Iqbal

10/08/2017

Nomia Iqbal

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Do some communities need to do more to help tackle child sexual exploitation?

Nomia Iqbal asks whether some communities need to do more to help tackle child sexual exploitation. Also, Anita Rani talks about hosting My Family, Partition and Me, India 1947.

Nomia asks: Do some communities need to do more to help tackle child sexual exploitation? University Challenge contestants Bobby Seagull and Eric Monkman join Nomia to talk about their new BBC radio show. BBC presenter Anita Rani talks about about travelling to Pakistan for My Family, Partition and Me, India 1947 - a series which marks the 70th anniversary of the partition of India. Comedian Mona Shaikh is one of a very few Pakistani born females doing stand up comedy on American stage - she joins Nomia to talk about her website Muslims Do It Better - which has been banned in Pakistan. Prasanna Puwanarajah, who directed The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and Nessah Muthy, the writer behind The Host, talk about their involvement in the first East End season which is presented by the National Youth Theatre.

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