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| Amongst The Unbelievers | ...TARIQ ALI... |
| Child On An Island | ...Martin Wainwright rediscovers Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, a twelfth century Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian Library, and explores its remarkable background, influence and relevance to the modern world, in the company of Doris Lessing, Samar Attar, TARIQ ALI, James Montgomery and Charles Butterworth. Extracts read by Nadim Sawalha.... |
| Dancing To The Music Of His Time | ...To mark the centenary of Powell's birth in 1905, the geneticist Steve Jones, a lifelong fan, revisits the Dance novels and looks at the life of the man who wrote them. He talks to admirers including the novelists Ian Rankin and A S Byatt, and the writer and activist TARIQ ALI ... |
| Devout Sceptics | ...Bel Mooney and guests explore the territory between belief and unbelief. In this programme, she talks to writer and film-maker TARIQ ALI ... |
| Life In Question [radio Scotland] | ...Colin Mackay discovers why writer and activist TARIQ ALI organised a strike in a small Himalayan village when he was 12 old.... |
| Nightrunners Of Bengal | ...TARIQ ALIbai (Actor)... |
| Private Passions | ...TARIQ ALI... |
| Thinking Allowed | ...The 15th century mosques of India were built by Hindu craftsmen trained on temples. Shakespeare borrowed from Seneca and emulated Ovid in the writing of his plays, and reggae was introduced to Britian by Jamaican immigrants who had brought African influence to the development of ska which in turn had borrowed from American R and B. No wonder that Edward Said said that, 'the history of all cultures is the history of cultural borrowing'. But is that cultural borrowing a fair exchange? Are some cultures more readily imposed than others and is there any sense in resisting the influence of foreign ways of life? Laurie Taylor discusses cultural hybridity with TARIQ ALI, Peter Burke and Angela McRobbie.... |