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#MeToo one year on - what's changed in the arts?

One year on from the beginning of the #MeToo movement, what impact has it had in the arts? Daniel York Loh on his play Forgotten, about the Chinese labourers who helped out in WWI.

#MeToo one year on – what impact has the hashtag popularised by Hollywood actresses had on the arts and on women around the world? We speak to Jude Kelly, Founder & Director of the Women Of the World Foundation, film critic Larushka Ivan Zadeh, Helen Lewis, Associate Editor Of The New Statesman, and to Naomi Pohl, Assistant General Secretary Of The Musicians Union.

Forgotten is a new play about the Chinese Labour Corps, the 140,000 Chinese men who at the height of the First World War travelled half way round the world to work for Britain and the Allies behind the front lines, and whose story is hardly known. Playwright Daniel York Loh talks to Kirsty Lang about his play whose title, written in Chinese characters, can also mean for Left Behind or maybe Erased.

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Forgotten - Daniel York Loh

Forgotten - Daniel York Loh
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Forgotten
is playing at the from 17 until 20 Oct and at the , London from 23 Oct until 17 Nov

The Assassination of Katie Hopkins

The Assassination of Katie Hopkins
Katie Hopkins

The Assassination of Katie Hopkins has won a UK Theatre award

Listen again to writer Chris Bush and composer Matt Winkworth Hopkins

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