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Outlook - London’s revolutionary kiss-in - BBC Sounds
Outlook - London’s revolutionary kiss-in - BBC Sounds
Released On: 25 May 2021
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Ted Brown is a black LGBT rights pioneer who helped organise the UK’s first Gay Pride
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A crazy idea thrown around a neighbourhood pub soon became the adventure of a lifetime. In 1967 New-York-City-native Chickie Donahue crossed oceans and hitched rides across a warzone to hand-deliver beers to his friends fighting in Vietnam. Not a soldier, Chickie relied on his charm and wit to get him to where he needed to go. But what began as a short morale-boosting mission soon became much more trecherous as Chickie found himself caught up in the deadly Lunar New Year attacks on what was then Saigon.
Presenter and producer: Mariana Des Forges
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Opetaia Foa i grew up in Samoa surrounded by the island s rhythms, sounds and songs. But surviving wasn t easy and his family moved to the city of Auckland in New Zealand. As he grew up in this new environment he began to look into his roots and started to make music about his voyager ancestors. It caught the eye of producers at Walt Disney Animation Studios who wanted him to co-write the music for their upcoming movie Moana, about a Pacific Island teenager trying to save her community. Opetaia Foa i made sure the smash hit movie stayed true to Pacific culture - writing the soundtrack s lyrics in Samoan and Tokelauan and turning to his daughter Olivia Foa i to sing.