Episode 15 -Bella Sankey- Detention Action- A time limit on Britains detention estate is long overdue
We speak to Bella Sankey, Director of Detention Action, in this episode, we discuss the harsh detention and deportation scheme the UK enforces on people seeking asylum. Last year 24 748 people were su...
28 Juli 202158min
Episode 14 - Daniel Trilling- Guardian Journalist- Cruel, paranoid and failing: Inside the Home office
Daniel Trilling spent six months interviewing politicians, civil servants, frontline staff, lawyers, judges, campaigners and ordinary people caught up in the system to ask one simple question: What's ...
21 Juli 20211h 15min
Episode 13 - Sonya Sceats- CEO Freedom from Torture- The Nationality & Borders Bill
In this conversation with Sonya Sceats Chief Executive of Freedom from Torture, we discuss the Nationality and Borders Bill which makes the most far-reaching changes to the UK Asylum System. Sonya is ...
13 Juli 202151min
Special Episode: Covid 19 Vaccination Education
COVID‑19 vaccines are intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The COVID‑19 vaccines are widely celebrated for their role in reducing the spread, ...
23 Juni 202137min
Episode 12 - Zarah Sultana MP
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience.* Zarah Sultana is a Young Conscientious Politician on a Mission. In October 2019, she was selected as the Labour candidate for Coventry South. Sh...
21 Juni 20211h 18min
Episode 11 - Gulwali Passarlay- Author- The Lightless Sky
This podcast episode was recorded in front of a live audience.* Aged 12, Gulwali survived a twelve-month trek from Afghanistan - crossing continents, suffering imprisonment and hunger, sailing across ...
18 Juni 20211h 8min
I'm Sabir Zazai, Chief Executive of Scottish Refugee Council, I arrived in the UK in the back of a Lorry
"I'm Sabir Zazai, Chief Executive of Scottish Refugee Council, I arrived in the UK in the back of a Lorry’ with these words Sabir disarms most." In this wide ranging conversation celebrating Refugee W...
14 Juni 202156min
Episode 10 - Dr Lucy Mayblin, University of Sheffield- What connects colonialism and contemporary Asylum Policy?
Britain is currently reforming its Asylum system and its Home Secretary, on the face of it, appears to have driven a coach and horses through the Refugee Convention of 1951. In this conversation with ...
25 Maj 202159min
