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George Takei: Growing up in an internment camp
Stephen Sackur talks to George Takei, forever famous as Lieutenant Sulu in Star Trek. Interned as a child in the United States for being of Japanese origin, he now campaigns for gay and immigrant rights. Do the values of Star Trek still resonate?
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- Wed 17 Nov 202108:06GMTBBC World Service
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- Wed 17 Nov 202123:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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