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Can Protest Art Change the World?

Art meets activism with novelist Angie Thomas; artist Santiago Sierra; writer Ece Temelkuran and composer Fredrik 脰sterling.

Novelist Angie Thomas tells Tina how the Black Lives Matter movement motivated her to write the award-winning young adult novel, The Hate U Give.

Artist Santiago Sierra meets the 大象传媒鈥檚 Guy Hedgecoe to discuss why the photography exhibition Political Prisoners in Contemporary Spain is provoking disapproval and demonstrations.

Writer Ece Temelkuran reflects on the newly re-elected President Erdogan鈥檚 rebuilding- and rebranding- of the Atat眉rk Cultural Centre, a focal point for the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul.

Plus, how do you deal with hate mail creatively? Swedish composer Fredrik 脰sterling explains why the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra turned a homophobic letter into an operatic libretto.

Presenter: Tina Daheley
Producer: Kirsty McQuire

Image: Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement staged a 'Black Resistance March' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the Democratic Presidential Convention in July 2016. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones/ Pacific Press/ Light Rocket via Getty Images

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