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As part of the BBC World Service Season on Identity, The Why Factor examines one simple question: Who are you?
As part of the BBC World Service Season on Identity, The Why Factor examines one simple question: Who are you? Did you choose your identity or was it given to you? Mike Williams asks how our identities are created and if that shapes the way we see the world, and the way the world sees us.
(Crowds on Oxford Street, London UK. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty)
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Mon 4 Apr 201614:32GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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The Many Layers of Identity
Duration: 02:38
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" I am a Writer and a PhD Student and... "
Duration: 03:41
Broadcasts
- Fri 1 Apr 201621:32GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & News Internet
- Mon 4 Apr 201601:32GMTBBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Mon 4 Apr 201602:32GMTBBC World Service Online, Europe and the Middle East & UK DAB/Freeview only
- Mon 4 Apr 201603:32GMTBBC World Service East Asia & South Asia only
- Mon 4 Apr 201604:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Mon 4 Apr 201606:32GMTBBC World Service Europe and the Middle East & East and Southern Africa only
- Mon 4 Apr 201614:32GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
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