Identity

Published: Dec. 26, 2018, 8:30 p.m.

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Identity: Laurie Taylor presents a special programme exploring the ways in which we define ourselves and gain a sense of belonging \\u2013 from race, religion and nationality to membership of a subcultural tribe. He talks to Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, and author of a new book which takes issues with fixed notions of identity; Carrie Dunn, author of a study of female football fandom and Karl Spracklen, Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University and author of a new book about the \\u2018Goths\\u2019, a counter cultural identity originating in the 1980s.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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