Mermaids, Caribbean tales and copyright

Free Thinking - BBC radio 3 May 2023

Disney's The Little Mermaid and a musical adaptation of a Caribbean version of the story kick off our conversation as Shahidha Bari is joined by director Ola Ince, historian and Sarah Peverley, who is writing a cultural history of mermaids. "Mermaid hunter" Sacha Coward considers mermaids as queer icons,
and Claudy Op den Kamp talks us through Disney copyright history.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lzh