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Wednesday’s best TV: Satanic Verses: 30 Years On; The Junk Food Experiment

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An unflinching examination of the effects of the culture war sparked by Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel. Plus: celebrities help to shock us into eating sensibly

Satanic Verses: 30 Years On9pm, BBC Two Asian Network presenter Mobeen Azhar assesses the lasting effects of the culture war sparked by Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses in 1988, a controversy that would result in deadly riots across the world and Rushdie going into hiding for nine years to escape a fatwa issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini. Azhar travels to his native Yorkshire to ask those who spoke out 30 years ago how they feel now.

 

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I like Simon!😊 Fuck religious fundamentalism is kills too many people in the name of God.

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