Month: March 2013

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

Only last week Ivory Toldson heard the speaker say there are more black men in prison in America than in college. ?Here we go again? he thought. Only the week before he had written his second article on why this statistic is not true. This week Ruth Alexander looks at where this ?fact? came from and why it is still being used. Also, why the opinion polls got the Kenyan elections wrong.

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Start the Week - Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon

On Start the Week Lisa Jardine asks whether the writing of history has been dominated by conflict and difference. The Professor of History, David Cannadine argues against the predominant 'them and us' agenda, and for a common humanity. While the Balkan writer Aleksandar Hemon splits his life between Sarajevo and Chicago. Ed Vulliamy reported on the war in Bosnia and explores a journalist's role in historical events, and Margaret MacMillan discusses the teaching of history. Producer: Katy Hickman.

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Start the Week - Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon

On Start the Week Lisa Jardine asks whether the writing of history has been dominated by conflict and difference. The Professor of History, David Cannadine argues against the predominant 'them and us' agenda, and for a common humanity. While the Balkan writer Aleksandar Hemon splits his life between Sarajevo and Chicago. Ed Vulliamy reported on the war in Bosnia and explores a journalist's role in historical events, and Margaret MacMillan discusses the teaching of history. Producer: Katy Hickman.