It Ain't Half Racist Mum
from Spare a Thought Hosted by Be the change. Media Network and Tom Spare
In today’s episode Tom speaks to Professor Les Back, a lecturer of Sociology at the University of Glasgow about 1979 TV episode of Open Door called It Aint Half Racist Mum. Together Tom and Les discuss the impact social work had on Les’s career as an academic, the life and legacy of Stuart Hall, one of the creators of cultural studies in the UK. The central focus of the pod this week is a TV episode Hall presented with actress Maggie Steed called It Ain’t Half Racist on Open Door, which was released in 1979. Through the conversation in today’s episode, you will see many parallels with the contemporary discourse in the public sphere, media and politics about immigrants, migration and racism. You can watch It Ain’t Half Racist Mum on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jy3ytj or you can find the episode on YouTube. Follow Tom’s work via his Substack: https://tomspare.substack.com/ Keep up to date with Spare a Thought via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spareathoughtmedia/ You can listen to all previous episodes of the show wherever you get your podcasts or head to https://spareathought.podbean.com/ Spare a Thought is a Be the change. Media Network production.
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In today’s episode Tom speaks to Professor Les Back, a lecturer of Sociology at the University of Glasgow to discuss the 1979 programme It Ain’t Half Racist Mum, a critique of the representation of Black and Asian communities in Britain, and draw parallels to political debate and discourse today.
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