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Chris Rock throws Jada, Will and the three Asian kids under the Oscars bus

Anna Chen discusses Chris Rock Asian joke on BBC World Service Well, Chris Rock REALLY wanted that gig, didn’t he? With the eyes of the world on this year’s Academy Awards ceremony following the ‘Oscars So White’ campaign and boycott, how’s a chap to hold onto his integrity and reputation and still get to play […]

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Anna May Wong Must Die! in China: Anna Chen’s radio interview on Studio Plus

Anna Chen – 16 February 2016 A radio interview I gave in Beijing when I performed my Anna May Wong Must Die! talk for the China-based Bookworm Literary Festival in 2015. Anna Chen: A Voice to Conjoin Britain with China 2015-09-30 10:17:08 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Li Shiyu Anna Chen presents her multi-media one-woman show: Anna

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Anna Chen presents the series “Chinese In Britain” on BBC Radio 4: repeated October 2014 on R4 Extra

Anna Chen presents the groundbreaking ten-part series Chinese in Britain made for BBC Radio 4 broadcast in 2007, repeated from 27th October 2014 on R4 Extra. (Recorded 2006 and 2007) This seminal work on the Chinese diaspora was presented by Anna Chen and produced by Mukti Jain Campion of Culture Wise for BBC Radio 4. The series

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Anna on the BBC World Service Weekend programme, 18th October 2014

I was a guest on the BBC World Service Weekend programme on Saturday, talking about the news: the Middle East, The Catholic Synod, Ebola and sheds. This year is the tenth anniversary of the Morecambe Bay Chinese cocklepickers disaster so I read my poem, “I Am Rich and Your Are Poor: lines on dead Chinese

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Women of the Blues on today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, 5pm

Bessie Smith, “Empress of the Blues” Today live at 5pm on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, Charles Shaar Murray concludes his Guide to the Blues with Part 3, The Women of the Blues. Presented by Anna Chen with Charles Shaar Murray. Guest: Sarah Gillespie. Today’s final Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge of the series wraps

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