Rethinking Civilisations
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV presenter David Olusoga, anthropologist Kit Davies and writer Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd and an audience at Sage Gateshead.
As the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ screens its new arts series, Civilisations, one of the presenters, David Olusoga, joins presenter Philip Dodd, anthropologist Kit Davis and the historian Kenan Malik to consider our different notions of world history from the dawn of human civilisation to the present day.
David Olusoga is a historian, writer and broadcaster who has presented several TV documentaries including A House Through Time; The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire and the BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners. His most recent book is Black and British: A Forgotten History.
Dr Kit Davis is a lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies who has written about travels across Europe and about Rwanda. She is a regular panellist on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Saturday Review.
Kenan Malik's books include From Fatwa to Jihad and The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics. Kenan is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who presented Nightwaves on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 and has written and presented radio and TV documentaries including Disunited Kingdom, Are Muslims Hated?, Islam, and Mullahs and the Media.
Producer: Fiona McLean.
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Podcast: Rethinking Civilisations
David Olusoga, Kit Davies and Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd
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- Thu 22 Mar 2018 22:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
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