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30/09/2017 GMT

Catalan Culture and the Question of Independence

BBC World Service - The Cultural Frontline, Catalan Culture and the Question of Independence

Two Catalan cultural figures discuss the charged issue of the independence referendum.

Catalan culture and independence; German drag artists for democracy; poet Naomi Shihab Nye, filmmaker Maysaloun Hamoud.

Two Catalan cultural figures discuss the divisive issue of the disputed independence referendum in Catalonia. Despite being on opposite sides of the debate, Isona Passola, a film producer and president of the Catalan Academy of Cinema and the novelist Eduardo Mendoza, winner of the prestigious Cervantes Prize, remain  firm friends.

Jacky-Oh Weinhaus, of the spoof political party Drag for Germany, reflects on using the art of drag to promote tolerance and democracy during the German election campaign.

Poet Naomi Shihab Nye re-visits the poem she wrote ten years ago about a chance meeting in an airport, which has resurfaced on social media in light of President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

And Maysaloun Hamoud,  the Palestinian film director under fatwa for her film In Between, about the lives and loves of three young women sharing a flat in Tel Aviv.

Presenter: Tina Daheley

Image: Catalan flag and ballot paper in the disputed Catalan independence referendum Credit: Pau Barrena/ AFP/ Getty Images

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