During a visit to her family’s homeland, Sri Lanka, Shobi Keerthy uncovers a personal and national history of conflict that had previously been kept hidden. As she joins the dots of her childhood memories in this coming-of-age tale, a story far bigger than her own is revealed.
This podcast looks at how two rapes, 40 years apart, acted as catalysts for feminist protest in India. The rape of Mathura in 1972 and the Delhi bus gang rape of Jyoti Singh in 2012 both sparked grassroots protests that spread like wildfire. But can such protests bring lasting change?
Since its first performance outside a police station in Chile, Un Violador en Tu Camino (A Rapist in Your Path) has spread all around the world, being performed in 52 countries
A large crowd dressed in black – what does that image make you feel? What memories come to mind? This podcast, including interviews with Dr Elżbieta Korolczuk and Bartosz Ślosarski, explores how Poland’s protests appear to have added another layer to the meaning of black, by redefining it as a colour associated with connectivity, creativity, and with a carnivalesque situation in which anger was turned into humour and power.
Environment podcasts are opening new windows onto the climate crisis, highlighting overlooked voices and sparking daring conversations. This collection, spanning in-depth interviews, journalistic investigations and teachings from Indigenous communities, features voices from around the world, each with a different strategy for telling the story of climate change.
A collection of poetry, interviews, research and reporting on the continued marginalisation of Black people in the UK and the US
How do you convey vital health messages when the terms simply don’t translate? With the extra pressure of an internet blackout in Rohingya refugee camps, Jennifer Chance finds organisations such as Translators Without Borders are carefully considering local dialects and biking across the camps with loudspeakers.
