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S8, Ep8 How to Fail: Bernardine Evaristo

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Limitations of Race Advocates

Roxanne Jones: It's hard to think now about how society was so limited back then, when you have the BBC producing so many cross-racial casting programs. That was not the norm then, people did not accept it. You get black actors and Asian actors playing the range of roles available in Shakespeare and elsewhere. And also with Shakespeare, you get women, you get Glenda Jackson playing King Lear a few years ago, which would never have happened then. But back to Sara Collins' point, and I know Sara and she's amazing, I don't necessarily see the fact that they were race advocates as a failing, or not as a failing as a limitation in terms of their

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