Context for The KIte Runner...

FOX NEWS CLASSIC ISLAMOPHOBIA....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xrUH1_eiB0
The TRews....response by Russell Brand..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4XuEIknfQ
'Muslamics'...EDL march..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE2OzGfIDLQ

Some Khaled Hosseini resources....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=useqwpkN18E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oWstZMSMVo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcyxXU1Dow

KAMIKAZE...Divine Wind..

Two Kamikaze pilots speak of their experience...
https://aeon.co/videos/the-order-could-come-at-any-moment-two-kamikaze-pilots-tell-their-story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xKmfPkbDPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsI79eO23K0

POET TONY WALSH ...BBC radio 4..LISTEN TO THIS..

I heard this on the radio this morning. It is an incredible conversation about EDUCATION, POETRY, CLASS, OPPORTUNITY, AND THE POWER OF CREATIVITY. Poet Tony Walsh talks to actress Julie Hesmondhalgh [Best known for her role in Coronation Street].
They simply discuss how they came to value writing and art and why the value of creativity is such a central feature of their lives. IT IS FANTASTIC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009cd2

For Y13 this could link to Harrison and issues linked to working class culture and opportunity.. but really this is just two interesting people discussing the power of art.

TONY WALSH is best known for being the poet that presented his poem 'THIS IS THE PLACE' at the vigil organised to respect the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszMmYpQjPo

WATCH TONY PRESENT HIS POEM AND THEN TELL ME POETRY IS POINTLESS...
GO ON.. I DARE YOU. Check out the comments under the clip.

Some Dickens Resources....

Why you should read Dickens....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5czA_L_eOp4
LITERATURE...Charles Dickens..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dB9BZWDBU&t=198s
Armando Iannucci...Dickens Documentary...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZB6E0-yCk&t=256s

Radio....
In our Time...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547hx
Big Issue article..Dickens is more relevant than ever..
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/charles-dickens-relevant-ever/
BBC Culture...Dickens
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141216-why-the-world-loves-dickens

I think filmmmaker KEN LOACH is similar to Dickens as his films highlight social injustice and attack abuse of power....
Trailer for I Daniel Blake...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWgxw9E_h4
KEN LOACH..Channel Four news debate with Tory MP..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V7Iaycp5IU
CATHY COME HOME....A KEY MOMENT IN TV history....This film inspired one individual..DES WILSON... to help form the homelessness charity 'SHELTER'...ART HELPING TO CHANGE THE WORLD IN A POSITIVE MANNER !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xky8ZqhNAlo

GCSE Romeo and Juliet...

RSC...2018...Act 5 Scene 3...Juliet's death...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q6tOsnbUjI&t=116s

Jonathan Pie....Satire..

Jonathan Pie....Extinction Rebellion..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuCmdtcWKog
Stormzy on education..and opportunity...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-50005023

EXAMPLES OF SATIRE to develop understanding of Chuck Dickens' HARD TIMES..

The genius of BILL HICKS...
The Kennedy Assassination..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZq6UOiBu_Y
Selling weapons to Iraq...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZfpGG2cBE

Chris Morris...The Day Today...Episode One...Lampooning the codes and conventions of  News reporting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGE9153VFE
BRASS EYE...CRIME...Chris Morris at it again..Mocking how the media report serious crime..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUuxZ-07e0
Trailer for FOUR LIONS...A Chris Morris film...comedy about Jihad!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-SrlQ9tlI
Chris Morris interview..Channel 4..Oct 2019....
https://www.channel4.com/news/satirist-chris-morris-on-his-new-film-and-whether-todays-world-is-beyond-parody

Final section of LIFE OF BRIAN....scathing satire on the absurdity of Christianity..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M

Check anything by CHARLIE BROOKER....His work on Netflix is epic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI