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'Illicit' dance in India.
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Series: Thinking allowed; Series 2014
First transmission date: 2014-05-14
Original broadcast channel: BBC Radio 4
Published: 2014
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Duration: 00:30:00
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Producer: Jayne Egerton
Presenter: Laurie Taylor
Contributors: Anna Morcom; Ian Morris; Laurie Taylor
Publisher: BBC Open University
Footage description: Laurie Taylor talks to Anna Morcom, Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, about her extensive research into marginalised dancers in contemporary South Asia. From bar dancers to transgender erotic performers, she has chronicled their relationship with 'legitimate' performing arts; their struggles against stigma and the ways in which post colonial nation building has excluded these 'non elite' carriers of culture. Also, can war ever be a force for good? The historian, Ian Morris, argues that war, as well as provoking countless deaths & horrors, has also, in the very long term, allowed us to create peaceful societies.
Production number: AUDA903B
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