Today's says an extra million Britons aged 50 or over have gone online for the first time in the past year as older people become more confident with the internet.
Are you one of them? Leave a comment and let us know what got you started, how it's going, and what you would say to a fellow over-50er who is still not online.
If you prefer you can drop me an email at pm@bbc.co.uk
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Kenneth Clarke . I've been hearing from a former Conservative party leader (and ex Home Secretary) Michael Howard, who takes a different view.
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The Guardian has some of his best bits .
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
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THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Rupert Allman (not pictured) to read.
Copy from Nick Robinson:
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ has learnt that the Prime Minister will announce, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, the setting up of a judge led inquiry into allegations that british security services were complicit in the torture of terror suspects. The inquiry will offer compensation to those peope who are found to have been the victims of torture carried out by foreign security services but with the knowledge of intelligence officials.
The Corn Hall, Diss. From RxKaren
"For the love of peat" from Lady Sue
Scandanavian flint daggers, from David McNickle
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Rupert Allman (pictured) to read.
Yes, really, you can win this man. We are handing legendary reporter Hugh Sykes over to you. Read more about that below.
In the meantime, do you have a good caption for the photo above (taken at a British military base in Basra in 2005)? BTW if you're wondering about the letters on the parasol...click .
As for winning Hugh....
We'll talk about this tonight. ´óÏó´«Ã½ News coverage is . You can read the report in full
One of our guests tonight has been at - to "explore new ideas for our energy future, and how we can mitigate the current crisis in the Gulf".....he is , whose personal story is rather interesting.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
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Many of our listeners tune in to PM from a workshop, where they toil away in solitude for most of the day. But often that isolation belies a direct connection with the biggest issues facing the UK.
Listeners Rob Carter (above) and Angela Venn (below) work on their own most of the time. Rob crafts specialist furniture in a workshed at the bottom of his garden. When he hears bad economic news on his radio, he worries bad news for his order book isn't far behind.
Angela works as a tailor in a room overlooking Cardiff city centre. She'll have a birdseye view from her window of the Armed Forces Day parade today. And she writes:
"I also look after the uniforms for RAF personnel so will be involved in a small way making sure their uniforms are well fitted."
For the last 5 years she's been visiting the RAF base in St Athan, and the weekly trips have given her a new perspective on the armed services.
Listen to Rob as he tuned in to the budget and Angela as she stitched the cloth of RAF blue.
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Wish I was in Halifax in Nova Scotia - one of the loveliest cities I've ever visited. Anyway, I'm not, I'm here and presenting PM. Which in itself is a pleasure!
Anyway, I think of Halifax because David Cameron stopped there en route to the G20 summit in Toronto, coverage of which forms part of our programme tonight.
Amanda Lewis is editing - it would be great if you could tell her what you thought of the programme . She will look through your comments after we've had our own post programme meeting at 6pm.
...he's been to the Royal Bafokeng Nation. It's where the England football team is based during the World Cup. It's a semi-autonomous region of the South Africa and is fabulously rich. As well as a recording a report for PM, he brought back these photos.
Students at Lebone High School, Phokeng, Royal Bafokeng Nation, in South Africa's North-West province near the Botswana border.
Large class, but three teachers (two out of sight). World Cup posters on the wall. It's a fee-paying independent school for the local community - and children whose parents cannot pay are subsidised by the Royal Bafokeng Nation.
The students are doing a project in which they have to imagine creating a new town from scratch. It's a bit like the computer game Sim City, but the teachers here prefer three dimensions and rulers and pencils and paper - much better for class collaboration, they say.
Lebone 2, under construction. The schools are named after the last King of Bafokeng, and Lebone also means light.
Phokeng civic centre. In the distance, the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, where the England team have played some of their matches. Their hotel and training camp are also here in Phokeng - not, as FIFA seem to think, in Rustenburg which is sixteen kilometres away.
and
Children at a school, in an informal settlement near Johannesburg. Many South African schools have classes of 45 and more with just one teacher.
Father and son at a party in a nursery school. In many schools like this, one or two teachers often have to care for more than a hundred very young children all day.
The nursery playground - slides and swings funded from donations.
After THAT tennis match
What's been your greatest feat of physical endurance?
i may be able to cycle a long way, and I'm a pretty good distance walker, but I recently bought a skipping rope and can barely manage to get to a hundred "skips" before gasping for breath. oh dear.
Yes, it's friday. What would you like to hear us cover in tonight's programme? If you have an idea you'd like to have explored further then let us know - get your thoughts in before 11am though, because that's when we go in for our own PM meeting and we might not look at the glass box after that.
speak later,
sequin
How can you resist? It's been a beautiful sunny week - at least that's been the view from the PM office - but now is the time to hit the shores and make merry....
This is the place where you can register your comments about tonight's programme. Eloise Twisk is our editor this evening, so let her know what you thought of the content, the running order, whether any item was missing that you thought should be included.
Eloise will look through your comments after our own glass box meeting at 6pm.
Today's glass box picture was sent in by Lady Sue, who writes:
Couldn't resist making a GB in honour of the new Ozzie Prime Minister - undoubtedly she'll be giving Australia a bit of a spring clean. Note the Dame Edna rubber gloves.
Last year we did a special report on the exploitation of migrant workers at some of London's top hotels. In a joint investigation with Newsnight, PM's reporter Andrew Bomford used secret recording to show how Polish room attendants were being paid below the minimum wage. Following the report 13 women took their case to the Employment Tribunal, and today we can reveal that they've received substantial payments in compensation and damages.
Here's the story as reported last year on Newsnight:
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Good Morning.
Got any ideas?
Tell us before 11am or we may not read them!
I thank you.
sequin
I've plundered Lady Sue's collection again for today's glass box picture. Lovely. I'm writing this before we know the result of the England match, but by the time we are on air England's fate could be pretty much sealed couldn't it. So of course we'll have coverage in PM.
But tell our Editor today, Eloise Twisk, what you thought of the programme overall here. We'll be discussing the programme ourselves in our 6pm meeting.
What did you make of the budget? Where do you suggest savings should be made, now you've seen the chancellor's proposals? Was his balance of spending cuts to taxation correct in your view? And what about those welfare cuts?
We've received an email from Tony Byrne with a lighter suggestion:
"After today's budget you can refresh us with reminders of how dire things are and are going to be by using Noel Coward's "There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner" to cue interviews in the places he names.
We can see, for example if they're out of sorts in Sunderland, and terribly cross in Kent, dull in Hull and the Isle of Mull, and so on. Don't miss the bit about the rats preparing to leave the ´óÏó´«Ã½."
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight. Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?
It's Budget day.... to cheer us up Lady Sue has sent this photo.
Programme is pretty packed with facts, figures and reaction. What do you make of our coverage?
Joanna Carr is editing PM this evening - let her know your thoughts.
All the best,
sequin
It's Budget Day - but don't let that deter you from letting us know of any other programme ideas you have. As always, get your thoughts into the glass box before our meeting at 11am.
All the best,
sequin
Roger Sawyer is editing tonight. Let him know what you thought of the programme.
Remember back in the 90s when the newsreader Martyn Lewis bemoaned the dearth of "good news" on the British media. He was widely criticised for campaigning against gloom-laden bulletins.
But maybe you agreed with him then? And indeed he's back on PM this afternoon making a similar plea for a more positive angle to be adopted to some of the awful stories we have to cover at the moment.
He'll be telling me about the "good news" angle he can see to the budget, the football, even the BP oil spill. See what you think ...
UPDATE
The interview sadly got knocked off our running order this afternoon. The good news? You can listen to it right here on the blog...
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Which of these do you prefer?
With Wimbledon and the World Cup competing for our attention today - Roger Sawyer PM's editor today wants to know which you would like to hear about first - tennis or football.
He's got to decide which item goes first in the running order at 5.30.
Top of the Morning to you all. I'm here for a few days filling in for Ed - so it'll be nice doing business with you again. As always, we welcome your ideas for the programme - remember to get them in before 11am because after that we go into our programme meeting and after that.... anything can happen.
See you later,
Sequin
Yes, really, you can win this man. We are handing legendary reporter Hugh Sykes over to you.
Over the next few weeks, Hugh will be reading the suggestions, stories and ideas we receive and will record a special piece for iPM.
If you'd like to win Hugh, tell us what you'd like him to report on - it could be a subject close to your heart; something happening in your town, workplace or home; or your unique take on something you've heard in the news - it's up to you. But please send it to us before the 8 July 2010.
How do I send an idea?
You can email ipm [at] bbc.co.uk putting "I'd like to win Hugh Sykes" in the subject line.
You can write to us at
I'd Like To Win Hugh Sykes, iPM,
Room G601, ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV Centre London, W12 7RJ
You can leave a comment below or if you can tell us in under 140 characters.
The terms and conditions are below.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Fiona Leach to read.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Fiona Leach to read.
But if I do get the job, my first acts will be to fire and .
I know they'd only try to undermine me the whole time.
Full details .
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Amanda Lewis to read.
Yes, really, you can win this man. We are handing legendary reporter Hugh Sykes over to you.
Over the next few weeks, Hugh will be reading the suggestions, stories and ideas we receive and will record a special piece for iPM.
If you'd like to win Hugh, tell us what you'd like him to report on - it could be a subject close to your heart; something happening in your town, workplace or home; or your unique take on something you've heard in the news - it's up to you. But please send it to us before the 8 July 2010.
How do I send an idea?
You can email ipm [at] bbc.co.uk putting "I'd like to win Hugh Sykes" in the subject line.
You can write to us at
I'd Like To Win Hugh Sykes, iPM,
Room G601, ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV Centre London, W12 7RJ
You can leave a comment below or if you can tell us in under 140 characters.
The terms and conditions are below.
Well, .
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
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THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Joanna Carr to read.
Read the report in full .
Read more ´óÏó´«Ã½ News coverage .
You can see and hear more .
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
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Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Roger Sawyer to read.
We heard two weeks ago from the family of Bill Shaw, a former serviceman imprisoned in Afghanistan for corruption. At the time, they were in Kabul and spoke of their relief after visiting him. But now they're back home, they say they're increasingly concerned for his safety - and that the British government hasn't done enough to secure his release.
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On Friday we marked the first game of the World Cup, and it inspired Hugh to rummage around among his negatives to send some more photos from his trip to South Africa last month:
"Pensive in Mbombela stadium. South Africa 4, Thailand 0
World Cup souvenir seller, service station near Johannesburg
Supermarkets and shops are filled with flags
Football boys at an informal settlement near Tongaat, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The blue containers are new public toilets, with mains drainage - replacing some of the pit latrines that they have had to use for years.
Enjoy the football, and the scenery...
...and the incomparable stars. That's the Southern Cross riding high.
And a cold winter dawn:
Hitchhiker and his mum. But be careful how you drive:
Seventeen people, mostly pensioners, killed when a lorry lost control as they were waiting for a bus near Greytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Approximately 12,000 people were killed in road accidents in South Africa in 2009 - thats about 36 deaths every day."
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Gun clubs used to be commonplace, the photo above was taken at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ rifle range. Today, gun ownership raises eyebrows in some circles. There are even those who question if guns should be fired by private individuals at all.
The subject has divided listeners. After a discussion on PM about firearm legislation following the shootings in Cumbria, we had many emails from both sides of the argument.
Several listeners who shoot at gun clubs contacted us, as did those who just can't understand why anyone would want to own a gun, particulary not for sport. Is it possible to bridge that divide?
I went to meet Andrew, who's been shooting for 40 years, at his gun club and invited Steven, who wrote saying: "We must ban all private guns and gun clubs NOW!"
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The idea that an individual may just snap was of concern to one listener in particular. She'd like the authorities to look in more depth at the psychological profiles of people who want to keep guns.
She still has worries about a violent partner from a previous relationship who has a shotgun certificate. Here she writes an open letter to the Home Secretary:
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...the Sacconi Quartet performing live on Wednesday's PM
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
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You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
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The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
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THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Eloise Twisk to read.
"The Rustenburg branch of the PM fanclub."
Fashion is temporary, style is eternal. Andy has neither. But he does have a big hat.
"England beat the mighty Platinum Stars in Moruleng. Hoorah!"
Andy contemplates the wonders of of hamstring-stretching.
And we'll be talking about tonight.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Amanda Lewis to read.
Nigel's string quartet is in our studio rehearsing, and the sound is wonderful. Hear for yourself tonight.
What's it all about? As Nigel wrote in an earlier posting:
"Here's how a skeleton would play the violin":
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Read the rest of the post here.
A card arrives, reminding me that it is the season, once again.
Please send your pointless postcard to:
PM Pointless Postcard Thingy,
Room G601,
´óÏó´«Ã½ TV Centre,
London,
W12 7RJ.
Remember, the more pointless, the better.
1220 UPDATE:
This is from mittfh who hasn't been away yet so "here's a fairly uninspiring set of views from my neck of the woods. These views hardly scream "I must visit this location.""
Nigel Wrench writes:
"Here's how a skeleton would play the violin:
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It's part of an experiment conducted by a neuroscientist, in conjunction with a string quartet, and featured at the Aldeburgh Festival which starts on Friday.
The idea is to find out exactly how the quartet manage to start a piece together, without a conductor, and then stay together throughout the piece. The lead researcher is Professor Alan Wing, whose fascination with the science of movement has also led him to study Cambridge rowing blues.
Here's what cellist Adrian Bradbury, curator of an Aldeburgh season on music and the brain, says of the team's musical research, which is still ongoing:
"They found that the most useful tempo information was in the head and the right arm of the first violinist, and that the tempo was dictated by the duration of her upbeat (its peak acceleration)."
What does it all mean?
On PM this evening we'll try to replicate some of that research for you with Prof Wing, Mr Bradbury and the Sacconi String Quartet.
Expect at the very least some nice music (they're planning Haydn). But first we have to fit them all in the PM studio....
(Our skeleton video is by kind permission of Prof Wing, and the Signum Quartet who conducted the research with him)."
Last night's programme should have featured a discussion on the former White House correspondent Helen Thomas. A timing squeeze and a constantly changing running order meant that our recorded item was dropped.
The Guardian has article on the story today. Roy Greenslade questions what happened to her and in article Michael Tomasky (one of our discussion guests) writes on the subject.
On The Huffington Post there's
You can hear the discussion we recorded here. It's Mr Tomasky with . Mr Tomasky starts:
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You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Roger Sawyer to read.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Roger Sawyer to read.
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
PM reporter Hugh Sykes is up for grabs. He's agreed to do a special report for iPM based on listener emails and ideas. Get in touch if you'd like to suggest a report..
Stewart Nicolson wanted to 'Win Hugh Sykes', he wrote
"My subject for Hugh will be, I suspect, rather controversial and unpopular. I'd like Hugh to report on the effect that the World Cup has on those of us who are supremely indifferent to football."
Listener John Lee got in touch to say one match in the 2006 World Cup put a strain on his relationship that still hasn't been resolved. Eddie spoke to John and his wife Elaine about what happened when Italy beat Australia.
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THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Amanda Lewis to read.
of the .
You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
Every night at 6pm, the PM production team gathers in a large glass box to talk about how the programme went.
THIS is your opportunity to do the same. Please leave your comment for tonight's editor Sarah Wadeson to read.
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You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.
Perhaps you have a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.
The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box? We don't really look in after 11am so please be prompt! And if you want to simply drone on about something, please try somewhere else.
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"What do you get," Nigel Wrench writes, "when you put maps and artists together?
How about a map showing how rhumba has spread around the world?
This is a detail from Gayle Chong Kwan's 'Save the Last Dance For Me' at a show called 'Whose Map Is It?' at the Insititute of International Visual Arts in London.
It comes complete with a dance card....
...that looks like this inside, plus an audio component that you should hear parts of on PM tonight, to provide a map of the human body as it dances.
From Dutch artist Esther Polak these works are about, extraordinarily, the delivery of milk in Nigeria. More .
Are maps static, a given?
One of the exhibition's curators Teresa Cisneros says, 'We were interested in what the map means and who owns the map and whose map it is today, as opposed to several centuries ago when it was only for the privileged few'."
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1:A parrot tried to steal my f1 key
2: A kitten sat on my laptop"
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