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Radio 4,2 mins

Gary Younge talks to Barbara Smith Conrad

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Gary Younge talks to Barbara Smith Conrad, who was one of the first black students to attend the University of Texas at Austin. Barbara discusses the discrimination she suffered when she was cast as Dido in a production of Dido and Aeneas.

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