Afropean identities, Filming the Arab spring
Writers Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet. Plus New Generation Thinker Dina Rezk on popular culture and Egyptian politics.
Johny Pitts, Caryl Phillips and Nat Illumine discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet. Plus, New Generation Thinker Dina Rezk on Jehane Noujaim's Oscar nominated documentary The Square and Egyptian politics. Georgia Parris discusses her first film Mari - a family drama of birth, death and contemporary dance.
Johny Pitts is one of the team behind https://afropean.com/ an online multimedia, multidisciplinary journal exploring the social, cultural and aesthetic interplay of black and European cultures. He runs this with Nat Illumine. Johny Pitts has just published a book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
Caryl Phillips' most recent novel A View of the Empire at Sunset is inspired by the travels of the writer Jean Rhys who moved from Dominica to Edwardian England and 1920s Paris and his first play Strange Fruit (1980) is being re-staged at the Bush Theatre in London until July 27th 2019.
Mari by Georgia Parris is at selected cinemas from June 21st 2019.
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the 成人快手 and the AHRC to select ten academics each year who can turn their research into radio. You can hear more from the 2019 Thinkers in this launch programme /programmes/m0004dsv
Dina Rezk teaches at the University of Reading.
You can find extended conversations with Claudia Rankine, Teju Cole, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Spike Lee and Paul Gilroy included in our playlist on the Free Thinking website and available as 成人快手 Arts&Ideas podcasts /programmes/p04ly0c8
Producer: Fiona McLean
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Podcast: Afropean Identities. Filming the Arab Spring.
Johny Pitts and Caryl Phillips discuss the idea of Afropean identity with Matthew Sweet.
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- Thu 13 Jun 2019 22:00成人快手 Radio 3
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