SATURDAY 22 MAY 2021

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthmnm4)
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SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172xvqbgkdk0xv)
Apple boss testifies in Epic legal row

Epic Games is suing Apple over what it claims is the monopolistic way it runs its App store; we hear from Adi Robertson, tech reporter at the Verge. And a lot of young people have started to invest during the pandemic, often through trading apps to invest their money as Marketplace's Kai Rysdall has been finding out. Also in the programme, as supplies of petrol and jet fuel have been reaching major cities on America's east coast with the Colonial Pipeline brought back on-stream following a ransomware attack earlier in the month, we consider the politics of pipelines; we speak to Dr Ellen Wald, senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center. And as the Eurovision Song Contest gears up for this year's competition in front of a live audience in Rotterdam on Saturday, project director Alice Vlaanderen explains how this year's event will differ from previous incarnations. Plus, we're joined throughout the programme by Rebecca Archer, freelance journalist with the ABC Brisbane.

(Photo: Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies via video-conference during a US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing. Credit: Reuters)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthmsc8)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxg7hmqdbj)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3b4mn)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3ct1lbf)
Will Sandpaper Gate ever be forgotten?

Sandpaper Gate has again become the talk of the cricketing world since fresh revelations by Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft. Alison Mitchell, Jim Maxwell and Charu Sharma discuss if it will ever be forgotten?

Plus we hear from 21 year old New Zealand cricketer Rachin Ravindra. He discusses the prospect of making his international debut, his Indian heritage and the support of his family.

And the team are joined by author Rob Eastaway who has decided to channel the royalties from his latest book into a UK fund to invest in friendly cricket for adults.

Photo: This video grab taken from a footage released by AFP TV shows Australia's captain Steve Smith (R), flankled by teammate Cameron Bancroft, speaking during a press conference in Cape Town, on March 24, 2018 as he admitted to ball-tampering during the third Test against South Africa. (Credit: STR/AFP TV/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthmx3d)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3ct20dx)
I left Gaza, but Gaza did not leave me

Your family is there, your colleagues are there: BBC Arabic’s Shahdi Alkashif explains what it was like to be watching conflict at home in Gaza from the safety of Turkey.

Image: Destroyed house in Jabaliya refugee camp northern Gaza Strip, 20 May 2021
Credit: EPA/HAITHAM IMAD


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3ct1wyj)
Fighting forced marriage in war

In 2009 a war crimes trial in Sierra Leone ruled that forced marriage was a crime against humanity. It was the first time a court had recognised that charge. The ruling came in a trial of three rebel leaders for crimes committed during Sierra Leone's civil war. The legal turning point came largely as a result of the testimonies of the women who had been victims. The prosecution argued that forced marriage should be considered a crime against humanity distinct from other forms of sexual violence. Farhana Haider has been speaking to the former chief prosecutor Stephen Rapp about the trials.

Photo: Sierra Leone, repatriated refugees reaching Freetown January 2001 Credit: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthn0vj)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3ct1hsd)
China in space

China has successfully landed and operated a rover on the surface of Mars, a feat only previously achieved by the United States. It follows Beijing’s successful robotic mission to the Moon to return lunar samples to Earth and comes just weeks after the launch into orbit of the first module of the country’s very own space station. China only sent its first human into space in 2003, but since then its technological capabilities have multiplied. But so too have the controversies. The mission to launch the space station module resulted in the uncontrolled return to Earth of debris from the Long March-5b rocket used, and a good deal of the ‘space junk’ currently orbiting the planet can be blamed on a Chinese missile test back in 2007. China says it has no intention of taking part in the militarisation of space and that its intentions are purely scientific. The country’s been banned from working with the United States and its partners on the International Space Station, but it is forming new alliances - with Beijing and Moscow agreeing to develop a joint base on the Moon. But what are the ultimate goals of China’s space programme? And as technologies needed to take humans to Mars are developed, are we about to witness a new ‘Space Race’? Paul Henley is joined by a panel of expert guests.


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthn4ln)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxg7hmqrkx)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3bhw1)
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SAT 05:32 Spitfire: The People’s Plane (w3ct0t1g)
Spitfire: The People’s Plane

Crowdfunding

The struggle against the Nazis has to be fought by ordinary people as much as by the army and air force. Communities across Britain are enlisted to raise funds for Spitfires. Villages, sports clubs, trades unions and churches devise money-making stunts and give their names to individual planes and whole squadrons.

Presenter: Tuppence Middleton
Producers: Alasdair Cross and Emily Knight
Editors: Chris Ledgard and Kirsten Lass


SAT 05:50 More or Less (w3ct2djz)
The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

The Recovery Trial, a nation-wide clinical study in the UK, helped identify treatments for Covid 19 in the early months of the pandemic. Tim Harford speaks to Professor Martin Landray of Oxford University whose team established the randomised trial.


(Covid-19 patient in an Intensive Care hospital ward, London June 4 2020. Photo: Lynsey Addario /Getty Images)


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthn8bs)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172xyt5gl6znlw)
Gaza ceasefire continues

President Biden has said the US will help organise the reconstruction of Gaza but he's insisted that countries in the region recognise Israel's right to exist as part of a two-state solution. We hear from Gaza about the situation on the ground following 11 days of fighting.

Also on the programme: we hear the latest on US South Korea talks on nuclear disarmament in the Korean peninsula; and one of the biggest events in world music the Eurovision song contest, is back on stage tonight, but extraordinary precautions will be in force because of the pandemic.

(Photo: Palestinians walk in Al-Remal market street next to the destroyed Al-Shorouq tower after a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza fighters. Credit: Mohammed Saber/EPA)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthnd2x)
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SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172xyt5gl6zsc0)
Nigerian Head of Army dies in plane crash

Officials in Nigeria say its army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna. We'll have an assessment of his role as leader of the military's fight against Islamist militants in northern Nigeria.

Also on the programme: the World Health Organisation says there's been a pandemic of overwork with more than seven-hundred thousand people a year dying prematurely; and we have interviews with the author and translator one of the nominees for this year's International Booker Prize.

Joining Paul Henley on the programme is Comfort Ero, Africa Programme Director of the International Crisis Group, and currently the ICG's Interim Vice-President; and Julian Sayarer, a British-born, author, journalist and adventurer currently based in the Tunisian capital, Tunis.

(Photo: Nigeria's army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru; Credit: Getty Images)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthnhv1)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172xyt5gl6zx34)
Gaza to rebuild

President Biden has said the US will help organise the reconstruction of Gaza but he's insisted that countries in the region recognise Israel's right to exist as part of a two-state solution. We'll have a report from Gaza as the ceasefire agreed on Thursday between Israel and Hamas holds - for the time being.

Also on the programme: we hear about the Coronavirus precautions, as one of the biggest annual events in world music - the Eurovision song contest, goes back on stage tonight.

Joining Paul Henley on the programme is Comfort Ero, Africa Programme Director of the International Crisis Group, and currently the ICG's Interim Vice-President; and Julian Sayarer, a British-born, author, journalist and adventurer currently based in the Tunisian capital, Tunis.

(Photo: Palestinians inspect their destroyed houses after a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza fighters, in Beit Hanun, northern Gaza Strip; Credit: EPA/MOHAMMED SABER)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3bw3f)
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SAT 08:32 The Conversation (w3ct1p6j)
Women of the Arab Spring

A decade after the uprisings that changed the political landscape of many countries in North Africa and the Middle East, Kim Chakanetsa looks at what impact the Arab uprisings had on the lives of women in Egypt and Syria.

Mona Eltahawy is an Egyptian-American author and commentator. She was at the frontline of clashes between protesters and the military in 2011. Mona is now based in the USA, where she keeps writing about feminism in the Arab world. Her latest book is The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls and her newsletter is called Feminist Giant.

Zaina Erhaim is an award-winning Syrian journalist and filmmaker. Her series of short films, Syria’s Rebellious Women, documented the lives of ordinary women turned activists in the aftermath of the uprisings. Her most recent project, Liberated T, is an advocacy campaign aimed at changing the gender stereotypes around women in the region.

Produced by Alice Gioia

IMAGE DETAILS
L: Zaina Erhaim (courtesy of Zaina Erhaim)
R: Mona Eltahawy (credit: Robert E. Rutledge)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthnml5)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct2d5p)
Israel and Gaza

After 11 days of conflict, a ceasefire has been agreed between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The violence in that time killed more than 250 people, most of them in Gaza.

During this past week, host Nuala McGovern has been hearing conversations from both Palestinians and Israelis about what it has been like to be living under bombardment. They talk about their lives and hopes for the future.

Among those she talks to are two women in their twenties in Gaza and also two Jewish women in the Israeli city of Lod, where a state of emergency was declared. They each share the emotional and mental toll from what they have witnessed.

(Photo: A Palestinian woman reacts after returning to her destroyed house following Israel- Hamas truce, in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, 21 May, 2021. Credit: Mohammed Salem/Reuters)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3bzvk)
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SAT 09:32 The Lazarus Heist (w3ct2f8y)
4: The Mob Boss

“Where did they get the money?” The FBI goes undercover to find out how North Korea is funding its nuclear programme.
#LazarusHeist

Listen online at bbcworldservice.com/lazarusheist


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3ct1l1d)
Logging in to read BBC news and the delights of a musical

The BBC responds to audience feedback on the possibility of having to log in to its news online service. Plus U.Me is a romantic radio musical set against the coronavirus pandemic. We hear what listeners thought about it and hear from the show’s creator.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthnrb9)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172y0pyjvp45by)
Sportshour asks: How could sport look in 2050?

We’ve brought together a Sportshour mini panel of experts to discuss what Sport could look like in the next thirty years to tie in with the BBC’s Sport 2050 project.

We’re joined by Claire Poole, who is the Founder and CEO of Sport Positive, Madeleine Orr, who is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at SUNY Cortland and founder The Sport Ecology Group, and Tanya Aldred, who is a journalist writing and campaigning about cricket and the environment.

Our guests discuss the impact climate change is having on events and athletes now, how next year’s Winter Olympics could be affected, how we could see fewer top athletes emerge in Africa and the Caribbean in the future and the impact that could have on events like the Marathon and Major League Baseball.

We also talk about the importance of athletes speaking out about climate change and we discuss some imagined scenarios of how sport could look in the year 2050. Throughout the discussion we hear from current and former athletes including: Ski cross Olympic champion Kelsey Serwa Rey and Tottenham and England footballer Eric Dier.

The world’s best in Powerchair football – Australia’s Abdullah Karim – joins us to discuss being compared to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, his hopes for next year’s World Cup on home soil and how his mother has helped him achieve what he has. Karim was born with severe scoliosis and limb deficiency and he credits his mum with helping him adapt to using his feet, which he relies on to do pretty much everything in his daily life.

And in Sporting Witness – we tell the inspirational story of Maria Mutola, one of only 4 athletes to compete at six Olympic games and the winner of Mozambique’s first Olympic gold medal.

Image: BBC Sport.


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthnw2f)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxg7hmrh1p)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3c7bt)
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SAT 11:32 WorklifeIndia (w3ct2f34)
How can rural India battle Covid?

While the total number of daily Covid infections in India is on the wane, the share of cases in rural districts is seeing a big surge. A large number of people in rural towns and villages live in poverty, and rundown local hospitals and clinics are unequipped to cope with a crisis of this scale. There is also a severe distrust in modern medicine.

What can be done to control the spread of the pandemic in rural areas, and is there a way to resolve the under-reporting of actual cases and fatalities?

In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss ways of lessening the impact of Covid in rural India.

Presenter: Devina Gupta

Contributors: Dr Pavitra Mohan, co-founder, Basic HealthCare Services; Brian Lobo, activist, Kashtakari Sanghatana; Osama Manzar, founder & director, Digital Empowerment Foundation


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthnztk)
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SAT 12:06 The Documentary (w3ct2fzv)
Gagarin and the lost Moon

On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became an explorer like none other before him, going faster and further than any human in history, into what had always been the impenetrable and infinite unknown. Raised in poverty during the World War Two, the one-time foundry worker and a citizen of the Soviet Union became the first human to fly above the Earth in the vastness of space. In doing so he became an instrument in The Cold War – an ideological battle between the superpowers; East versus West, communism versus democracy.

In the year of the 60th anniversary, Dr Kevin Fong tells the story of how 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin came to launch a new chapter in the history of exploration and follows the cosmonaut’s one hour flight around the Earth.

The Soviet Union's triumph in 1961 was the event that galvanised the United States to win the Space Race, to send the first people on the Moon by the end of the decade. Yuri’s own ambitions to voyage to the Moon were frustrated by his political masters, a faltering Soviet lunar space program and two tragic accidents.

(Photo: Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Credit: Imagno/Getty Images)


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthp3kp)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172xv5357r52w9)
UN officials say Gaza will take years to recover

UN officials give a grim assessment of the humanitarian situation in Gaza -- saying it will take several years to recover from the conflict with Israel. President Joe Biden says a two-nation state is the solution to the conflict.

Also in the programme: the dangers of the Indian Covid variant; and the Eurovision Song Contest returns.

(Picture: Dummies are visible within the rubble of a destroyed Al-Shorouq tower after a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza fighters, in Beit Hanun. Credit: EPA/MOHAMMED SABER)


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthp79t)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172y0t79s2ww1m)
Live Sporting Action

Joining Lee James in our Sportsworld team this week are Arsenal invincible Lauren, former Manchester United and England goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain, and Wales’ record goalscorer Helen Ward. The team will discuss the Premier League season as we look ahead to the final day of fixtures with Chelsea, Leicester City and Liverpool battling it out for a place in the top four and qualification for the Champions League next season.

We’ll be in South Carolina for the second golf major of the year, the US PGA Championship, in Monaco as Lewis Hamilton looks to extend his lead at the top of the Formula 1 Championship, and in West London as Brentford and Bournemouth look to book their place in the Championship playoff final.

We’ll also check in with the NBA as the playoffs get underway, we’ll look ahead to the start of the Diamond League season and we’ll hear from South African World Cup winner Cheslin Kolbe ahead of his club Toulouse facing La Rochelle in Rugby Union’s European Champions Cup final.

Photo: A general view of a Premier League match ball during the Premier League match between Burnley and Leicester City at Turf Moor. (Credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images)


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthpq9b)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172xyxg7hmsb8l)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3d2kq)
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SAT 18:32 Spitfire: The People’s Plane (w3ct0t1g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:32 today]


SAT 18:50 Sporting Witness (w3ct1l85)
Maria Mutola - Mozambique's athletics queen

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Maria Mutola won Mozambique’s first ever gold medal in the 800 metres. Mutola had long been regarded as the finest female middle-distance runner of her generation, but she had suffered shock defeats at the previous two Olympics. Her exceptionally long Olympic career would continue until Beijing 2008, her sixth games. She talks to Ashley Byrne. The programme is a Made-In-Manchester Production.

PHOTO: Maria Mutola winning her gold medal in Sydney, 2000 (Getty Images)


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthpv1g)
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SAT 19:06 The Documentary (w3ct2fzz)
Vaccinating the world

Now that scientists have created a Covid-19 vaccine in record time, the race is on to vaccinate the world. Public health professor Devi Sridhar follows the journey of the Covid vaccine from factory to arm as she goes behind the scenes of the rollout. Speaking to health leaders, politicians and experts, we see how the world is responding and look at how long it might take to vaccinate enough people. The challenges facing companies, governments and NGOs might be political and economic – but as the virus continues to spread, the race is really against time.

(Photo: A registered nurse administers the Covid-19 vaccine into the arm of a woman. Credit: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthpysl)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3ct1rsx)
Director Barry Jenkins

This week Nikki Bedi is joined by British Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite talking about her latest work The Baby is Mine, and broadcaster and film critic Anil Sinanan.

We’ll hear from Oscar winning screenwriter and director Barry Jenkins about his powerful new series The Underground Railroad

Actress Sigourney Weaver tells us about her new film My New York Year, playing J D Salinger’s literary agent.

There’s music from British singer songwriter Birdy who reveals how her fourth album Young Heart was born out of heartbreak.

Bollywood star Salman Khan talks about his determined work ethic.

And the American musician St Vincent on where she gets her inspiration.


(Photo: Director Barry Jenkins. Credit: Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthq2jq)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172xv5357r61vb)
Covid: Argentina begins a new lockdown

A strict lockdown has started in Argentina which is experiencing a surge in Covid-19 infections. We'll hear from an intensive care doctor who says hospital beds are nearly 100% occupied.

Also: Egyptian negotiators are in talks with the Israelis and Hamas to try and ensure the ceasefire sticks; and the Eurovision Song Contest is back after a two-year pause.

(Photo: gravediggers carry a coffin wearing protective equipment during an exercise for coronavirus disease burials in Buenos Aires, Argentina May 17, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthq68v)
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SAT 22:06 Music Life (w3ct1hbv)
Getting personal with Lila Iké

Jamaican rising stars Lila Iké, Sevana, Jaz Elise and Naomi Cowan discuss whether or not they think about genre when creating, how much they write about their personal lives in their music, and how their experiences as a woman in the music industry are reflected in their songs.

Lila Iké is a Jamaican singer-songwriter whose genreless sound fuses contemporary reggae with elements of soul, dancehall and hip-hop. She signed to Protoje's In.Digg.Nation label in 2017 and released her debut EP, The ExPerience. last year. Singer-songwriter, actress and label-mate Sevana's music is rooted in soul and R&B, or, as she describes it, "every sound but with a Jamaican filter". She recently released her second EP, Be Somebody, and is also the star of Jamaican web series Losing Patience. Naomi Cowan was 2018's Breakthrough Act at the Jamaica Reggae Industry Awards, and since then she has toured with Estelle and released several singles, including chart-topping hit Paradise Plum. Jaz Elise has been singing since she was 5 years old and released her debut EP earlier this year, an In.Digg.Nation production titled The Golden Hour.

The artists discuss whether or not they think about genre when creating, how much they write about their personal lives in their music, and how their experiences as a woman in the music industry are reflected in their songs.


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172xzjjlthqb0z)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172xywmss13mky)
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SAT 23:20 Sports News (w172y0sdw1h7p6l)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172xzkc1k3dp9c)
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SAT 23:32 The Cultural Frontline (w3ct1pdz)
Studio Ghibli: The next generation

This week, The Cultural Frontline explores family, legacy and creativity.

Studio Ghibli is one of the biggest names in animation, famous for films such as The Wind Rises, My Neighbour Totoro and the Oscar winning Spirited Away. For years, Studio Ghibli was led by its co-founder, the visionary director, Hayao Miyazaki. Since Hayao‘s retirement in 2014 there have been changes at the iconic animation house, with the emergence of Hayao’s son, Goro Miyazaki as a new leading force. Our reporter Anna Bailey speaks to Goro about the challenges of continuing his father’s legacy and his new film Earwig and the Witch, a story about magic and family.

Is there a work of art - a song, a poem or a film that makes you think of your family? The music producer Fatima al-Qadiri shares the story of how the soundtrack to her favourite game evokes the memories of her childhood in Kuwait during the First Gulf War.

Two mothers determined to do what’s right for their children. That simple premise is the starting point for the new novel What’s Mine and Yours, a multigenerational story of race, family and identity in America by the acclaimed writer Naima Coster. Chi Chi Izundu speaks to Naima about how her novel was shaped by her experiences of childhood and motherhood.

Family history, identity and voicing the challenges faced by young working class women, that’s the focus of the poetry collection, Where the Memory Was, by British-Somali poet Hibaq Osman. For The Cultural Frontline, Hibaq shares the influences that shaped her writing and reads one of her poems.


Presented by Chi Chi Izundu


(Photo: Earwig and The Witch. Credit: Studio Ghibli)