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Phillips Idowu has been made an mbe for his services to athletics

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Episode #111: Yinka Shonibare MBE discusses the theatricality and sense of wonder inherent in his public sculpture “Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle,” installed on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. Situated across from “Nelson’s Column,” a monument erected to honor Admiral Lord Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, the brightly-colored sails of Shonibare’s boat reference the complex heritage of British colonialism and its multicultural present.

Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare mbe also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures.

Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden & Luke Williams. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Tamsin Selby & Greater London Authority.

Duration : 0:3:54

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Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire perform Snack Crack at the Dirty Water Club in North London. April 2007. (Audio from CD)
Also pre-gig actuality with audio excerpts of Billy’s poem ‘The Billy Childish’ from ‘Heavens Journey’. ‘Comb Over Mod’ track under the cut-up poem.

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Interview with Yinka Shonibare, mbe discussing his Flower Time exhibition at the the the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, London.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A18601940.

Duration : 0:4:40

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Interview with Yinka Shonibare, mbe discussing his Flower Time exhibition at the the the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, London.

Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A18601940.

Duration : 0:4:5

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Major Gavin Stoddart plays some of the solid 4/4 marches. By my reckoning, they are Rowan Tree, Old Rustic Bridge, Soldier’s Return, Wee Highland Laddie, and his own composition, Murdo’s Wedding.

Duration : 0:4:35

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Tom Lynch mbe. BMX Racing-National Champion, British Champion, European Champion, Superclass NO1, World N0 3 & World Team Champion. Some titles many times over in the 80’s & 90’s. Trained some of the best talent in the UK which seen the Olympics in 2008 & created the ‘life saving’ bicycle paramedic teams which started in 1998. Founder of Public Safety Cycling & awarded amongst other accolades to become an MBE ‘member of the order of the british empire’ in 2007 for ’services to cycling’.
www.publicsafetycycling.org.uk
www.bmx-videos.com/otherb1986.php ‘click superclass’
www.streamcity.co.uk/clients/transport/bikes.htm

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