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Bradford City of Culture 2025: Giant naan breads and taking on the doubters

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70% Informative

Bradford begins its year as UK City of Culture in bid to show a different face to the rest of the country.

Radio play Bilal and Ted 's Bradfordian Adventure aims to win over doubters in the city.

One of the first productions is a radio play written by broadcaster Nick Ahad .

Dr Paul Sullivan of Bradford University has carried out research into the city's negative reputation.

Samad Iqbal started working at Akbar 's aged 15 and is a proud ambassador for the city.

Dr Sullivan says Bradford 2025 has already begun to have a positive effect.

Bradford 2025 will be the catalyst for that really coming to fruition will be Bradford 2025 , says Dr Sullivan .

VR Score

70

Informative language

65

Neutral language

41

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

32

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

Source diversity

1

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