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Persuasive rather than polarising . Kwame kwei armah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. It is a great pleasure to have you. Now, youve been in the Theatre Business as an actor, a writer and a director for the best part of three decades. Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my...

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Ijust used that phrase, some would call it a cliche, about the culture wars. Does it feel to you that today there is a somewhat toxic culture war . I think youve framed it beautifully. It is toxic, but most importantly, its disingenuous. In my humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, fundamentally to take away that fear, to take away the binaries that i think this farce of the culture wars are. You know, i often hear politicians and im not one...

But it has to be fair and almost democratic. kwame, you call yourself... i know. ..and of course you are kwame. but you were, as a kid, raised as ian — ian roberts — in west london, in southall — a racially, ethnically very mixed part of london, which at the time, in the �*70s and �*80s, was the scene of racist violence... yes. ..of real racial tension. to what extent has that shaped you? very much so. it hasnt defined me, i hope, but it has shaped me. i remember my father taking me to...

Defined me but it has shaped me. i remember my father taking me. i remember my father taking me to the top of our street at the time, i think it was 1979, and a pub, a tavern, was a flame and it was because the skinheads, a skinhead group had performed and then attacked the black and brown people close to it. as my father took me to the top of the street and i saw the pub burning, and i would have been about 12, he said this is your country. remember that. and i watched the police chase us down ...

Hamborough tavern was aflame. and it was because the skinheads, or a skinhead group, had performed and then they had attacked the black and brown people close to it. and as my father took me to the top of the street and as i saw the pub burning — and i would have been about 12 — he said, "this is your country, remember that." and i watched the police chase us down the street that i lived. and i saw skinheads armed with truncheons and shields. i didnt read this — i saw this. that completely...