One family’s 30-year quest for home, with Ty McCormick
Asad and Marian’s family fled conflict in Somalia and found refuge in eastern Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. That was in 1991. Three decades later, the family still hasn’t been allow...
6 Apr 202141min
The Year 1000: When globalisation began, with Dr Valerie Hansen
Globalisation isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonisation and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie Hansen, professor of Chinese history at Yale U...
30 Mar 202136min
"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system," with Zoe Gardner
In this conversation, Zoe Gardner, policy advisor at the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, covers: How immigration exposes women to a higher risk of violence and abuseWhy policing and immig...
23 Mar 202138min
Iran: When your passport locks you in, with Selda Shamloo
Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport.For many of us, our p...
16 Mar 202139min
Liberalism is in a fight for its life, with Ian Dunt
Liberalism – a belief in the primacy of individual liberty – has built modern democracies. Now it’s in an existential crisis, caught between rising authoritarianism and identity politics. I look back ...
9 Mar 202138min
Expatriating while Black, with Amanda Bates
People of all kinds – yes, people of color too – go abroad to live, love and learn. They study a language, they follow a partner, they go just for the heck of it or for a midlife crisis. Sometimes, th...
2 Mar 202140min
Why every child should spend a year abroad, with Katherine Alexander-Dobrovolskaia
Exchange students aren’t just the butt of jokes in American teen comedies. They’re young people going through one of the most transformative experiences life has to offer. Expanding it to more childre...
23 Feb 202141min
Being British and European after Brexit, with Peter Gumbel
When they narrowly escaped the Third Reich and found refuge in Britain, Peter Gumbel’s parents and grandparents cast off their German Jewish heritage to become a perfectly British family. Cricket, Mar...
16 Feb 202134min
