and my colleague scott roxboro has joined me in the studio to tell us more about the piece is i am welcome scott how did this film resonate with you and what do we learn about 20 or so all i think you learn a lot about her as a person it's all just a lot about her work but so much of this is a is an interview with toni morrison and it was really fascinating for me to see about her life as a single mom about the struggle she had to make it 1st the publishing industry and fighting against chauvinist editors and critics and also to see this image of this incredibly strong self-assured a black woman who's also obviously having the time of her life so wonderful it's very much about her personal journey but also remarked about how she changed our view of literature full stop and it's so interesting perhaps for the younger generations that so many of the issues she was banging the same drones 40 years ago that the need to movement is talking about today yeah very much so i mean a lot of personal stories in this documentary are the stories of her fight for equal pay the stories of her fights again

and scott roxboro is here to tell us more about that scott welcome to the show so for its 120 year history of the venice biennale it has basically been a celebration of western art it's not been very diverse how are they going to change that yeah i mean it's a big big issue i mean one of the artists with black artists a few black artists who are.

theaters and thanks very much to scott roxboro for bringing us all that backstory and. well i always like to remind people that early in our free spirited often grungy capital has more museums than paris more than 170 in fact and one of the reasons for that is the pressure cultural heritage foundation its massive collection stretches from the stone age all the way to contemporary art and while some of its stars like never t.t. of course are well known many other treasures can now be seen in a brand new documentary a coproduction between d. w. ata and the german public station that's a look. at the persian cultural heritage foundation has one of the world's largest collections comprising 5000000 objects held by 9000 institutions in the german capital the film berlin's treasure trove brings them to life director selected a few of those objects as starting points to explore big questions what is beauty do we need to fear death and what significance to these our treasures have for us today the film offers insight into a rich cultural heritage connecting us to the history of

scott roxboro is here to tell us more about that scot welcome to the show so for its 120 year history the venice biennale has basically been a celebration of western art it's not been very diverse how are they going to change that yeah i mean it's a big big issue i mean one of the artists of black artists if you black or.