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Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40

Reaction to the verdicts in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case. Also, we mark 40 years of Back to the Future and Egyptian artist Wael Shawky on reframing Middle Eastern history.

As the jury in the trial of music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs delivers its verdicts, author and cultural critic Mikki Kendall discusses how Americans will react.

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of its release, The Independent's chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey and Dan O'Brien of the University of Essex discuss Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's influential film Back to the Future.

Egyptian artist Wael Shawky talks about his operatic films which reframe Middle Eastern history from an Arab perspective.

And we bring you news of the Grand Egyptian Museum a vast, state-of-the-art space close to the Pyramids in Giza, which is home to 100,000 artefacts. 60% of the museum is now open to the public, but the official opening ceremony this week has been postponed due to tensions between Israel and Iran.

Also, we hear about a new collection, Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, from the editor Karen McCarthy Woolf and the featured poet Nick Makoha, who will be talking about his own collection The New Carthaginians at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Presenter: Nihal Arthanayake
Producer: Mark Crossan

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