This Sunday, April 3, from 9:00-11:00am ET, BBC World Service will offer a live special program from the Oxford Literary Festival as part of the BBC’s “Identity” season. Program and broadcast details follow:
Program:
“BBC World Service Live at the Oxford Literary Festival”
Anu Anand, Jamie Coomarasamy and Jo Fidgen consider ideas of identity being discussed at the Oxford Literary Festival, with international authors and thinkers, performers and festival go-ers.
Do leaders shape their people’s identity, or is it the other way around? And can it ever be said that we end up with the leaders we deserve? Jamie Coomarasamy and a panel of guests, including legendary Russian chess player turned pro-democracy campaigner Garry Kasparov and Ethiopian historian Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate, explore the theme of changing identity in a globalising world, through the prism of power and the people.
World renowned actor and gay rights activist Sir Ian McKellen speaks to Anu Anand about his life and work. Since coming out in 1988, Ian has also campaigned for legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.
Jo Fidgen explores food, spirituality and female African-American identity with acclaimed US writers Jessica Harris and Jewell Parker Rhodes. They reveal what their grandmothers passed on to them, from culinary wisdom to a little bit of old-fashioned magic. How much have those relationships shaped their own identities, and do they think that what it means to be an African-American woman is changing?
** Please note that this program will contain a clip of audio from Beyoncé’s song “Formation,” including the word “negro” in the following lines:
My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana
You mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bama
I like my baby heir with baby hair and afros
I like my negro nose with Jackson Five nostrils
Broadcast Details:
There are two editions of this program:
- Two hour edition LIVE on Sunday, April 3, 9:00-11:00am ET.
- One hour edition available to download as of 2:00pm ET on Monday, April 4 via the BBC Partners site
Both editions follow the World Service clock.
Duration:
Live edition: 2 x 49 minutes 30 seconds (23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds) or 59 minutes including the News Bulletins, billboards & promos.
Downloadable edition: 1 x 49 minutes 30 seconds (23 minutes & 26 minutes 30 seconds).
The downloadable one-hour edition is available to broadcast from April 4 at 2:00pm ET through May 3, 2016.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/partners/english/programmes/world-service-live-at-the-oxford-literary-festival