SuperPower Nation: what is the world talking about?
Krupa Thakrar-Padhy is the producer of SuperPower Nation which goes on air on March 18 2010. Here she explains what it's about.
What's the world talking about? Tune in, log on or pop over on March 18th and we hope you'll find out.
This Thursday, Hackney's Shoreditch Town Hall becomes the world under one roof as it hosts SuperPower Nation.
The six hour event is part of the BBC's SuperPower Season. It's all about ordinary people from all walks of life, from all corners of the world engaging with one another about absolutely anything. Call it an experiment, pushing the boundaries or even over-ambitious but there's no excuse for having nothing to talk about.
This is the day when the BBC passes its editorial agenda to its audience. With no overarching question we'll let conversations unfold naturally between people of different language groups as we aim to get a snapshot of the global conversation as it happens in real time.
Consider the scene - A Urdu speaking Romeo romancing a French speaking Juliet, an Indian sitar player jamming with the bongo drums, a video wall full of talking faces from around the world, a flow of blogs from Brazil to New Delhi, a Mandarin speaker chatting about Iranian politics to a Hausa speaker all while munching on a plate of Indian samosas.
The SuperPower Nation team have been working heads down to make this day happen. We've got over 20 of the BBC's language services involved from the Somali to the Macedonian service. BBC World, Arabic and Persian TV will be coming together to broadcast on the day and both Africa Have Your Say and World Have Your Say will be coming live from the Town Hall for an ambitious day of BBC broadcasting across all platforms.
There's plenty of opportunity to get involved even if you don't happen to live in the East end of London.
You can tweet about the hot topic wherever you are using the hash tag SuperPower Nation, email us your thoughts or links to your blog to [email protected], join in our new multilanguage chat room (check out the site for more info on the day) or even pop up on webcam via video-conferencing.
Distance should be no boundary to conversation - nor should language.
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