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World Service Listings for 20 – 26 June 2020 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2020 How to Shrink a 'Big Fat Indian Wedding’ with Disabilities World Service Listings for 20 – 26 June 2020 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2020 How to shrink a 'big fat Indian wedding’ with disabilities. Most people taking the IAT do exhibit some Indian weddings are traditionally lavish affairs with hundreds of kind of bias. That leads to two questions: how worried should SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5nr3ghn3wd) guests, lasting several days. But Covid-19 has changed all that. we be at these implicit attitudes? And what can be done about The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. Geeta Pandey of BBC Delhi has spoken to some couples who them? decided to abandon their dreams and go for the simplest possible ceremony. Presenter: David Edmonds SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18s9vhjzbr) Americans mark the end of slavery Image: Nomadic herder in Ladakh with livestock (Photo: Question marks. Credit: Shutterstock) Credit: BBC Aamir Peerzada As Americans mark June the 19th and remember the end of slavery, the Black Lives Matter movement is forcing US SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xf4c) businesses to get on message - fast. We have a special report SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmv0) The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. from Oklahoma as President Trump's imminent rally stirs up The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise ghosts of the past. When Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, US SAT 06:06 Worklifeindia (w3cszvgt) Also in the programme - Australia's Prime Minister says school teacher, Jane Elliott, decided to try to teach her all-white How can Bollywood survive the coronavirus pandemic? government and institutions are being targeted by on-going class about racism. She decided to segregate them according to sophisticated state-based cyber hacks. the colour of their eyes, and treated them differently. Although India’s mega Hindi film industry, Bollywood, is staring at a loss controversial from the start, the “blue eyes/brown eyes” of more than $300 million. Since mid-March, film production And after the paralysis of lockdown, we meet the boss of a teaching exercise has been adapted in schools and workplaces has been stalled and the country’s 9,500 theatres are shut Scottish distillery who's hoping that Father's Day will tempt for diversity training ever since. Jane Elliott has been explaining because of the coronavirus outbreak. This has led to massive visitors back to sample a little Water of Life. to Rebecca Kesby why she still thinks the model has value today job losses. in defeating racial prejudice. Plus, we speak to the author Lynda Gratton about her new book Mumbai, India’s financial capital, which is also home to the which explores two big challenges people in the developed multi-billion-dollar industry, has allowed resumption of film world are facing - living longer and having to contend with ever SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02x5n3) shoots and production work from next month, but with severe more complex technology. The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. restrictions. How will social distancing norms affect filmmaking? How will Bollywood's trademark song-and-dance Presenter Fergus Nicoll is joined by Sinead Mangan spectacles be filmed? SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcn0) PHOTO: A large group holds a Juneteenth prayer in Is this the internet we always wanted? In this edition of WorklifeIndia, we discuss how Bollywood will Atlanta/Getty Images have to change to survive the coronavirus crisis. The internet has proven invaluable during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing us to continue to work and learn from Presenter: Devina Gupta SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02wy4v) home, disseminating information to concerned citizens and The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. providing desperately needed social contact for those cut off Contributors: Tisca Chopra, Bollywood actor; Amit Behl, senior from family and friends. Before the pandemic, it seemed the joint secretary, chairperson - outreach committee, CINTAA; internet was increasingly becoming an angry and cold place, Sidharth Anand Kumar, vice president - films & events, SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9bmf3) providing a platform for selfish pursuits and amplifying Saregama India Ltd The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen extreme views and behaviour. That still goes on, of course, but is the pivot to more altruistic activities online an opportunity to consider again the potential of the internet and what it's for? A SAT 06:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qplsdr) SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qpl9f7) string of data scandals over recent years has prompted calls for The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. greater regulation of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon. But three decades on from the creation of the World Wide Web, is now the time to discuss more sweeping reforms? SAT 06:32 BBC OS (w172xm4lszzl757) SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhj8) Proposals are now emerging that could radically change the way Coronavirus conversations: Another Beijing lockdown Waqar, Australian turmoil & Windies rebels the internet works, how your data is managed, who’ll be able to make money, and even challenge the very concept that “the We speak to people in China's capital, Beijing, where a fresh As chief executive Kevin Roberts loses his job as CEO of internet should be free”. Ritula Shah is joined by a panel of spike of Covid-19 cases has been detected. Fan Fan and Cricket Australia, we'll ask why the Covid-19 crisis has been so expert guests to discuss whether the coronavirus-era internet Richard tell us what it feels like to go through lockdown all over badly mishandled in one of the strongholds of the sport. that has brought people together and even thrown us a lifeline again. might be the internet we wanted all along. If so, how can we Plus, Pakistan fast bowling great Waqar Younis looks ahead to build on the moment and make it even better? Meanwhile, the most intense outbreaks are now in Latin their tour of England. America. We hear accounts of how communities in countries including Peru and Colombia are dealing with the disease. And 'The Unforgiven' - a new book on the black West Indian SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02x9d7) cricketers branded traitors for taking money to play in apartheid The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. As restrictions ease elsewhere, businesses are preparing to open South Africa. again in a very different world. We bring together business owners in Botswana, Turkey and the United States to talk about Photo: Waqar Younis (Getty Images) SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7b6cs9bznh) the challenges they face and their hopes for the future. The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen One consequence of coronavirus lockdowns being discussed SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02x1wz) around the world is an increase in reported cases of domestic The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5pl8qplnnm) abuse. We hear the experience of one woman in Texas who The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service. managed to escape her violent relationship. SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjh4) Picture: Fan Yingziong The herders caught between two armies SAT 05:32 Trending (w3cszvrv) Can viral videos stop police brutality? This week 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a clash with Chinese SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5nrv02xjwh) forces in the disputed region of Ladakh. It's the first fatality in It was a brutal killing which captured the attention of the US The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service. 45 years, but one of many skirmishes along the de facto border. and the world. But the death of George Floyd wouldn’t have BBC Indian languages journalist Aamir Peerzada looks at the caused such an outcry if it hadn’t been captured on camera. impact of the current stand-off on the nomadic livestock The person who shot that famous video was 17-year-old SAT 07:06 Business Weekly (w3ct0snn) herders who inhabit the high altitude desert. Minneapolis resident Darnella Frazier. Her footage, along with Hong Kong: Business and the new security laws other angles captured by other witnesses on that day in late #A man should know his place May, galvanised a social media wave and prompted protests On Business Weekly we ask how international businesses based Many women in Turkey have taken to Twitter to mock sexist around the world. in Hong Kong will react to China’s new security laws. Also - it language and patriarchal attitudes. Under the hashtag 'A man But are viral videos really an effective check on police abuse? is finally illegal to discriminate against LGBTQ people in the should know his place', they've turned popular sayings and We talk to the experts, look at the evidence – and talk to workplace in the US. We’ll hear from the man who took his clichés upside down, applying them to men rather than women. witnesses and people on the front lines of the protests. case to the Supreme Court. As the World Bank predicts that Beril Akman of BBC Monitoring in Istanbul shares some of her Presenter: Michael Wendling remittances will fall by 20% this year we look at how that will favourite tweets. Reporter: Reha Kansara affect communities in the developing world and speak to those workers who send their wages home. And two big food Colombian love in the time of Covid-19 Picture caption: A protest sign reading “No justice, no peace” companies say they're rebranding products that adhere to racial The coronavirus pandemic has taught us many unexpected Picture credit: Getty Images stereotypes - we consider the importance of this.
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