Conflict on Campus

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Examining how the Israel-Gaza war is affecting students here in the UK. Anwar Akhtar is a director at the Samosa Project, a media and arts charity working to create understanding across cultures. He heads to Leeds, and gets a close-up view of the tensions bubbling over at the university.

This programme was first broadcast on 12 May, 2024.

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. People are on the now.
0:52.8	Resistance is justified.
0:54.8	We vote are on the planet.
0:56.8	A pro-Palestinian Solidarity protest and an Israeli counter-protest face off a few feet away from each other,
1:08.0	there on either side of a narrow street watched by the police. The rights and wrongs
1:14.0	from heaven.
1:17.0	The rights and wrongs of the war in Gaza are being felt and expressed by people around the world,
1:26.0	including the ones you're hearing now.
1:28.0	Their students on the campus of Leeds University.
1:32.0	It's almost like a microcosm of the national
1:35.7	demonstrations. There's lots of shouting across the road. Both sides have got megaphones.
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