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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 humble opinion. Its used to kind of create political fear. And ourjob as artists is, i think, funda...

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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 to diss politicians, but i also often hear politicians use race or class or immigration or use hist...

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 hasn't defined me, i hope, but it has shaped me. i remember my father taking me to the top of our street at the time — i think it was in 1979 — and a pub called the hamborough t...

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 the street that i lived and i saw skinheads armed with truncheons and shields, and i saw this. that,...