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BBC Asian Network's Big Debate: Nihal Arthanayake

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11/05/2018

Nihal Arthanayake

BBC Asian Network - BBC Asian Network's Big Debate, Nihal Arthanayake

Would you back the opening of more faith schools?

Would listeners back the opening of more faith schools? Nihal asks after the government announced plans to allow funding for local councils to open new faith schools.

Would you back the opening of more faith schools? We're asking after the government announced plans to allow funding for local councils to open new faith schools. After that Nihal speaks to artist Dawinder Bansal about her latest project 'The Making of a South Asian Wedding'. A new documentary which pays homage to Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam is being screened at Oxford University. The documentary's producer Zakir Thaver tells us why the Pakistani scientist's achievement received no recognition in Pakistan. And Andrew Derlien tells Nihal how he went to India to do some charity work but ended up being cast in an Indian TV drama.

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