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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Fashion Stories: In a handbag
Description: Oscar Wilde's famous line from The Importance of Being Earnest focuses on what we might not expect to find - Shahidha Bari's essay considers the range of objects we do carry around with us and why bags have been important throughout history: from designs drawn up in 1497 by Leonardo to the symbolism of Mary Poppins' carpet bag in PL Travers' novel to the luggage carried by refugees travelling across continents often in what's called a Ghana Must Go bag.Producer: Ruth WattsShahidha Bari is a writer, critic, Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at...