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Still switched on: in its 40 years, BBC2 has gone from cleverness to consumerism, replacing learning with lifestyle programmes. Andrew Billen compares
At his coronation as the new chairman of the BBC, Michael Grade said he was not interested in arguments about the quality of television that were conducted ......(Continue Reading) Bombay takeaway: Kamila Shamsie on the British appetite for a taste of inauthentic India - Indian Summer
An Indian friend who lives in Australia visited me in London recently. He said that while in India he had heard that Pakistan was stirring up trouble ......(Continue Reading)Icn Adds A Channel, But Gets Squeezed
Byline: ANDREA FIGLER Recent changes to U.S.-based International Channel Networks' programming lineup, including a new channel from Nigeria launching ......(Continue Reading)Stereotypes: I don't dream of Bollywood
The other day, Channel 4 broadcast I Won't Marry White, yet another documentary claimed by its makers to "really show the reality of being a young ......(Continue Reading)The hierarchy of skin colour presumes that Caribbean folk are at the bottom of the pile
Regular readers of this column who saw my documentary Who You Callin' a Nigger? on Channel 4 last Monday will be familiar with the issues it covered, ......(Continue Reading)
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