Robert Beckford, a fair trade expert who has contributed to Channel Four and the BBC, is giving a talk at Exeter College next week.

He will be talking in the CCI theatre about his new film, “The Great African Scandal”, on Monday December 15th from 2pm.

The Religious Studies department organised the talk to fit in with its module “Equality in the Modern World”.

Robert Beckford from Oxford Brookes, Birmingham University and Channel Four will be showing excerpts from “The Great African Scandal” which discusses issues surrounding the fair-trade movement, its benefits and how there are lots of unresolved issues.

Dr. Beckford is a noted Academic whose specialist subject is Black Theology, and he is a regular contributor for the BBC and Channel 4.