The Movie Making Inmate of Manus Island

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A new documentary film called 'Chauka, Please tell us the time' gives an insider’s view of the treatment of inmates at Australia’s controversial Manus Island detention centre, who are mostly asylum seekers that have arrived on boats. We speak to the Iranian producer and co-director Arash Kamali Sarvestani who approached an Iranian inmate on the Island, Behrouz Boochani, to make shot the film in secret on his smartphone. A landmark court ruling in Osaka which states that only a qualified doctor can apply tattoos, has left Japan’s tattoo industry facing an uncertain future. We hear from Hori Benny a tattoo artist in Osaka and Yoshimi Yamamoto, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Tsuru University in Japan about the implications of the ruling for Japanese culture and the changing attitudes towards this art form in a conservative society. This year’s PEN Pinter Prize, the renowned Irish poet Michael Longley, speaks about a poet's role in times of unrest and turmoil and the impact of conflict on children. Presnter: Tina Daheley Producer: Shoku Amirani