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What did you think of the Make Bradford British Programme?
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What did you think of the Make Bradford British Programme?
by Farhat » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:20 am
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Re: What did you think of the Make Bradford British Programme?
by pinkygirl » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:09 pm
I thought the programme was ok, had some good moments too! At first i thought it wud be dreadful, and all the Muslims wud be called muzzies or something! But here is a review from the guardian, bit harsh isn't it? what does everyone think?!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ ... ami-review
Make Bradford British (Channel 4) declared itself to be an attempt to discover what "Britishness" really is and whether multiculturalism can succeed in a country where, outside London, the different races and religions seem to segregate quite starkly and stubbornly. This tricky sociological question, decided diversity and community experts Laurie Trott and Taiba Yasseen (or possibly some idiot spark at the arse-end of a late night brainstorming session at Channel 4), could best be addressed by sticking eight people born and bred here (who had all failed the British citizenship test and therefore – I didn't quite follow the reasoning here – didn't know what Britishness was) in a house together for a week and, umm, watching what happened.
Nothing really of note, it turned out. That is, nothing beyond what we have seen a thousand times on the thousand similar semi-freak shows there have been before this. Roll up and watch a few layers of someone's ignorance and fear stripped back to reveal the – gasp! – actually non-diabolic heart that beats within. Gasp! as most people are shown to be slightly better, at bottom, than their daily lives allow them to be. Hiss! at the one villain stubbornly refusing to be enlightened yet. Marvel! as you see that even people of the same race or religion can disagree.
Add! to the teetering pile of "passing the time/pissing it away" programmes that towers over the schedules and Despair!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/ ... ami-review
Make Bradford British (Channel 4) declared itself to be an attempt to discover what "Britishness" really is and whether multiculturalism can succeed in a country where, outside London, the different races and religions seem to segregate quite starkly and stubbornly. This tricky sociological question, decided diversity and community experts Laurie Trott and Taiba Yasseen (or possibly some idiot spark at the arse-end of a late night brainstorming session at Channel 4), could best be addressed by sticking eight people born and bred here (who had all failed the British citizenship test and therefore – I didn't quite follow the reasoning here – didn't know what Britishness was) in a house together for a week and, umm, watching what happened.
Nothing really of note, it turned out. That is, nothing beyond what we have seen a thousand times on the thousand similar semi-freak shows there have been before this. Roll up and watch a few layers of someone's ignorance and fear stripped back to reveal the – gasp! – actually non-diabolic heart that beats within. Gasp! as most people are shown to be slightly better, at bottom, than their daily lives allow them to be. Hiss! at the one villain stubbornly refusing to be enlightened yet. Marvel! as you see that even people of the same race or religion can disagree.
Add! to the teetering pile of "passing the time/pissing it away" programmes that towers over the schedules and Despair!
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Re: What did you think of the Make Bradford British Programme?
by Farhat » Thu Mar 08, 2012 12:01 pm
What did you think the purpose of the programme was? And will you be watching the 2nd part?
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Re: What did you think of the Make Bradford British Programme?
by transhuman » Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:24 pm
it made me wish never to live in Bradford!! Sorry if there are any Bradfordians on here but your city sucks!
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