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Boyhood to Manhood

From football to online worlds, the power of music or the military - how are young men finding their tribes? Jeffrey Boakye, Lisa Sugiura and Luke Turner join Chris Harding.

The Second World War obsessed Luke Turner when he was growing up, before he founded the music website Quietus. Music has also been former teacher and now Add to Playlist host Jeffrey Boakye's passion and he's written a novel for teens called Kofi and the Rap Battle. Lisa Sugiura researches the online world that has drawn in so many. Chris Harding has been to see the new James Graham play at the National Theatre which explores the football team put together by Gareth Southgate. They come together for a conversation about how young men find their role models and navigate growing up?

Jeffrey Boakye's books include Hold Tight: Black masculinity, millennials and the meaning of grime and What is Masculinity? Why does it matter? And other big questions (co-authored with Darren Chetty); his new children's book is called Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer.
Lisa Sugiura researches focuses on cybercrime and gender at the University of Portsmouth
Men at War: Loving, lusting, fighting, remembering 1939-1945 by Luke Turner is out now
Dear England by James Graham runs at the National Theatre until August 11th 2023

You might also be interested in a Free Thinking conversation about the changing image of masculinity with authors Ben Lerner, JJ Bola and Derek Owusu /programmes/m000b0mx
And Matthew Sweet talked with photographer Sunil Gupta, authors CN Lester and Tom Shakespeare, and a Barbican exhibition curator Alona Pardo about How do we build a new masculinity? /programmes/m000gm6h

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Tue 27 Jun 2023 22:00

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