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'We must never underestimate the power of words to shape public opinion and politics', writes Bernardine Evaristo.
This comes in the aftermath of a call from a school authority in South Dakota for the banning of her novel, 'Girl, Woman, Other' on the grounds that it - and four other novels - are unsuitable for seventeen and eighteen-year-olds.
Bernardine argues that we should avoid vocabulary that fosters outrage and try instead to find words that convey our exact, and reasoned, argument.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
By BBC Radio 44.6
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'We must never underestimate the power of words to shape public opinion and politics', writes Bernardine Evaristo.
This comes in the aftermath of a call from a school authority in South Dakota for the banning of her novel, 'Girl, Woman, Other' on the grounds that it - and four other novels - are unsuitable for seventeen and eighteen-year-olds.
Bernardine argues that we should avoid vocabulary that fosters outrage and try instead to find words that convey our exact, and reasoned, argument.
Producer: Adele Armstrong

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