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Why 'Outside the Gates'? There are many gates isolating people from each other. 'Gated communities' being the most obvious, where the affluent try to segregate themselves from the poor.

The most insidious though are the gates within our minds which separate us from, make us think we are different to, even better than the 'other'.

Yet we all experience the same emotions, feelings, wants and needs irrespective of gender, colour, race or creed.

"What I Heard about Iraq."

Saturday, 12 May 2007

Last night, 11th May 2007, BBC Radio 4 broadcast what is probably the best radio play on the war in Iraq and is available to listen to again for the next 7 days.

From the BBC web page for the Friday Play:

'What I Heard about Iraq

Eliot Weinberger's long and continuing prose poem draws on reports, newspapers, official utterances and eye-witness accounts to paint a terrifying picture of the war in Iraq.

Adapted for radio by Simon Levy.

With Tony Pasqualini, Bernadette Speakes, Darcy Halsey, Marc Casabani, Ryun Yu.

Director Tim Dee.'

To listen click here. You have until next Friday 18th May.

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