The epic highs and lows of Vice Media

05/11/23 • 28 min

With the recent news of Viceâs potential bankruptcy, Commotion has corralled a cast of former Vice associates to talk about the companyâs unlikely transformation from a scrappy Montreal punk zine to a dominant global media empire, and how it found itself in its current financial predicament.

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Netflixâs Queen Cleopatra and who gets to claim Egyptian history

Culture critics Syrus Marcus Ware and Pacinthe Mattar discuss the controversies surrounding the new Netflix series Queen Cleopatra and what it suggests about the influence of race and identity on viewers' interpretations of both our own histories and that of others. Plus, journalist and Eurovision expert Karen Fricker joins us from Liverpool, England to talk about this year's contenders for the song competition.

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