Imitation

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Imitation can be essential to human learning and advancement but is there a danger, especially in an era of instant communication and global capital, of us mindlessly copying the latest popular phenomenon or creating a monotonous look to our cities? And why in classical music, imitation wasn’t always a dirty word. Presenter Zeinab Badawi talks to anthropologist Alex Bentley, musicologist Jan Smaczny and architect Robert Adam.