Studio 360 tries on some new identities. The novelist Howard Jacobson struggles to strike a balance between being Jewish and British. A horrible accident convinces a budding computer geek to change course and make a life as a jazz musician. African-American actors find a way to make Shakespeare their own. And young architects throw out the foamcore, in favor of a hunk of cheese.
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