"Woke: The Journey of a Word Mon, 1.45pm, Radio 4
Once used to summarise injustice, the word 'woke' has more recently been linked to zealotry, extremism and angry online debate. But how did the past tense of awake become a generational term tied to fraught division? Matthew Syed investigates using five key stories: from it being a watchword for African Americans in the early 1900s, to how musician Lead Belly cemented its link to inequity and the US civil rights movement.
Danielle De Wolfe"
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