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BBC Asian Network's Big Debate: Nomia Iqbal

07/03/2018

Nomia Iqbal

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Wolf-whistling, catcalling - should these become hate crimes?

Wolf-whistling, catcalling, or making women feel uncomfortable on public transport - should these become hate crimes? That's what Labour MP Melanie Onn thinks. Then our guru Priti Vyas answers all your beauty questions. After this, we discuss controversial plans to honour the late politician Enoch Powell with a 'blue plaque'. He's best known for his controversial "rivers of blood" anti-immigration speech from the 1960s. Bill Etheridge UKIP MEP for West Midlands supports the blue plaque, while student Komal Chauhan and Labour councillor Milkinder Jaspal are against it. Plus, we talk about a new exhibition on Asian youth culture, taking place at Birmingham City University. It explores British Asian identity and what it's like being torn between two different cultures. Dil speaks to the project's director, Faisal Hussain, documentary photographer Ines Dalal and Sheerah Ravindren, who was photographed for the exhibition.

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