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Its the new academic year which means a new year for the SOAS Spirit! This year's addition is gonna be extra spooky not only because it comes out on Halloween but also because Valerie Amos's controversial departure is front page. In collaboration with SOAS Radio the managing team behind the Spirit (Syraat, Hana, and Malhia) sat down to tell us what is in store for this very special edition.

Discussing the use of sports diplomacy to broaden the international engagement of a small country like Wales with Gavin Price, (co-project lead British Council Wales), Rosa Bickerton (British Council Wales), hosted by Dr J Simon Rofe.

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In our next episode of Global Sport Conversations, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff speaks with Kely Nascimento-DeLuca, a storyteller, advocate, and Global Goals World Cup Ambassador to learn about the Women Warriors of Football movement, how she’s experienced the power of sport, how family informed her love of the global game and more. Learn more about Kely’s work here: https://warriorwomenoffootball.com Follow Kely on Twitter: https://twitter.com/casakely _________________ About the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing attention on issues that transcend national boundaries. It’s a story fed by history, culture, race and identity, technology, business, international relations, and more, one that is also being shaped by topical debates and ethical issues of today’s news cycles. But in a rapidly changing global sports world, how do various stakeholders come to and interact with sports beyond the game? How do they experience the intersection of sports and diplomacy and governance? What are key take-aways from careers across the global sports spectrum that inform our understanding of our world today? These critical questions and more are the themes explored in our Global Sport Conversations Podcast series.

In today’s episode of the Global Sport Conversations podcast, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff exchanges with General Manager of the Capitol City Go-Go and former Team Great Britain and professional basketball player Pops Mensah-Bonsu about his career and being at the front lines of the intersection of basketball and diplomacy. Key questions they explore include: how was Pops inspired to a career in the game? In what ways did the people-to-people knowledge exchanges involved in basketball diplomacy help him integrate into local communities in different cultures around the world, and how did the elements of race and identity (sometimes multiple identities) play a role? What was it like representing Team Great Britain in the London 2012 Olympics? And why is he excited about the forthcoming NBA-FIBA Basketball Africa League and the future of global basketball? Learn more about Pops’ career: https://www.okayafrica.com/in-conversation-pops-mensah-bonsu-gm-capital-city-go-go/ Follow Pops on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pops _______________ About the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing attention on issues that transcend national boundaries. It’s a story fed by history, culture, race and identity, technology, business, international relations, and more, one that is also being shaped by topical debates and ethical issues of today’s news cycles. But in a rapidly changing global sports world, how do various stakeholders come to and interact with sports beyond the game? How do they experience the intersection of sports and diplomacy and governance? What are key take-aways from careers across the global sports spectrum that inform our understanding of our world today? These critical questions and more are the themes explored in our Global Sport Conversations Podcast series.

In our next episode of Global Sport Conversations, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff speaks with Syra Sylla, a journalist and self-proclaimed basketball junkie on the hoops scene in France, why she started the Lady Hoop website, how she’s engaged in basketball diplomacy in Senegal, the challenges encountered as a black woman of color in sports, and more. Learn more about Syra’s work here: https://ladyhoop.com https://fr.linkedin.com/in/syrasylla Follow Syra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ladyhooop ___________________ About the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing attention on issues that transcend national boundaries. It’s a story fed by history, culture, race and identity, technology, business, international relations, and more, one that is also being shaped by topical debates and ethical issues of today’s news cycles. But in a rapidly changing global sports world, how do various stakeholders come to and interact with sports beyond the game? How do they experience the intersection of sports and diplomacy and governance? What are key take-aways from careers across the global sports spectrum that inform our understanding of our world today? These critical questions and more are the themes explored in our Global Sport Conversations Podcast series.

Welcome back for another episode of the Global Sport Conversations podcast. Today host Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is joined by FIBA coach and founding president of The Basketball Embassy Chris Dial to discuss the ways basketball has taken him around the world, the importance of basketball diplomacy, what it was like building the first Kosovar national basketball team and more. __________________ About the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing attention on issues that transcend national boundaries. It’s a story fed by history, culture, race and identity, technology, business, international relations, and more, one that is also being shaped by topical debates and ethical issues of today’s news cycles. But in a rapidly changing global sports world, how do various stakeholders come to and interact with sports beyond the game? How do they experience the intersection of sports and diplomacy and governance? What are key take-aways from careers across the global sports spectrum that inform our understanding of our world today? These critical questions and more are the themes explored in our Global Sport Conversations Podcast series. Learn more about Chris’s work here: https://www.thebasketballembassy.com/chris-dial Follow Chris on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisdial79 _________________________ About Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing attention on issues that transcend national boundaries. It’s a story fed by history, culture, race and identity, technology, business, international relations, and more, one that is also being shaped by topical debates and ethical issues of today’s news cycles. But in a rapidly changing global sports world, how do various stakeholders come to and interact with sports beyond the game? How do they experience the intersection of sports and diplomacy and governance? What are key take-aways from careers across the global sports spectrum that inform our understanding of our world today? These critical questions and more are the themes explored in our Global Sport Conversations Podcast series.

In this episode, we meet with Emily, a former sex worker in London. Emily shares her experience of the profession, and invites us to look beyond what both the demonising and the glamourising aspects of popular media want us to believe. Songs: Kokoroko - Abusay Junction/We Out Here Blondie - Call Me Producer & Interviewer: Laura Siegler

Welcome back to the Global Sport Conversations podcast. This season begins with an wide-ranging look at storytelling and communicating within the global sports world as our host, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, exchanges with storytelling expert extraordinaire Joe Favorito. Joe has over 30 years of strategic communications / marketing, business development and public relations expertise in sports, entertainment, brand building, media training, television, athletic administration and business. Learn more about Joe’s work here: https://joefavorito.com Sign up for his global sports industry newsletter here: http://joefavorito.com/contact-me/newsletter-signup/ Follow Joe on Twitter: @joefav https://twitter.com/joefav ________________________ About the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing attention on issues that transcend national boundaries. It’s a story fed by history, culture, race and identity, technology, business, international relations, and more, one that is also being shaped by topical debates and ethical issues of today’s news cycles. But in a rapidly changing global sports world, how do various stakeholders come to and interact with sports beyond the game? How do they experience the intersection of sports and diplomacy and governance? What are key take-aways from careers across the global sports spectrum that inform our understanding of our world today? These critical questions and more are the themes explored in our Global Sport Conversations Podcast series.

DanDana hosts Christina Hazboun and Yamen Mekdad chat with music historian Hazem Jamjoum. Travelling back in history to Egypt in 1918 we explore the life and music of Sheikh Imam Issa, one of the most prominent revolutionary artists of the twentieth century Arab world. We discuss the political turmoil and historic events that Sheikh Imam engaged in his music, especially since he joined his efforts with those of street poet Ahmed Fouad Negm. In part I, we discuss the singer and poet’s lives and work until their imprisonment by Nasser in the late 1960’s. Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm Eza El Shams Gher2et Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm Ana Atoob 3n 7obbak Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm Kelmeteen la Masr Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm Baqaret 7a7a Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm El Fool Wella7ma

Predictably, this is is a show about South African Music. The host, Dela Gwala, takes us on a journey of music and memory - speaking through what she misses about being home.

This week we are joined by Dr. Rainer Tan to speak about Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South. Rainer is Swiss, Malaysian and Canadian. He grew up in Canada and finished med school at the university of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2014. He was the Field Coordinator in Tanzania for the NGO Canada Africa Community Health Alliance, and is now in residency training for a specialisation in Tropical Medicine, while completing a Clinical Research Fellowship for a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH). Rainer’s research consists of developing and evaluating clinical decision algorithms for the management of sick children in peripheral (mostly rural) health facilities in Tanzania with the DYNAMIC project. He will be moving to Tanzania in January 2020 for 2-3 years to work on this project. The DYNAMIC project is lead by the Global and Digital Health Unit at Unisanté in Lausanne, Switzerland, in collaboration with the SwissTPH, EPFL, and the Ifakara Health Institute, and the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-15-clinical-algorithms

This week, we welcome Zhang Leilei to speak about Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China. The media and information landscapes in China present unique challenges for social activism. Zhang Leilei is a Chinese feminist activist whose strategic campaigns have effected profound change, but not without considerable difficulty and threat to her livelihood. Leilei is the founder of Chinese group F Feminists in Guangzhou and she is the principle organiser and participator of the Chinese #Metoo movement. She conducted the offline campaign called 'Human Billboards', as well as a nationwide campaign to start mechanisms against sexual harassment in universities. She is also following up several influential cases against discrimination of women in the work place and is a facilitator of feminist awareness and training programs. While she studies Gender, Media and Culture (MA) at Goldsmiths University, she is the coordinator of VaChina feminist group in London. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-14-activism-in-china

On 13th and 14th July, SOAS hosted the International Social Forum organised by the Labour party and the SOAS Department of Economics. This was an opportunity for Labour to bring together politicians, economists and social movement leaders from across the world in an effort to discuss ideas and open a dialogue on ways to reform International Institutions to tackle climate change and growing inequality. Laura Siegler chatted with Yanis Varoufakis about the European environmental agenda and his campaign for transnational democracy. Voices: Dela Gwala Almira Binte Farid

This week we are speaking with BBC Media Action Bangladesh about Media for Development in Bangladesh. Joining us is Richard Lace, the Country Director in Bangladesh. Richard has worked in media and development for 15 years, in Europe and Africa as well as Bangladesh. He has been leading the BBC Media Action office in Bangladesh since early 2014, and leads a team of 80 staff to deliver media and communications projects that aim to improve family health, enable people hold their leaders accountable, and help people improve their economic security and preparedness for disaster. Prior to becoming Country Director, Richard led BBC Media Action Bangladesh’s projects on climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction, including initiating, developing and delivering the Amrai Pari project. We are also joined by Research Manager Arif Al Mamun. Arif has worked with BBC Media Action in Bangladesh since 2009, and currently manages the in-country research, monitoring and evaluation programme in the Bangladesh office. He specialises in quantitative research and has successfully delivered formative and evaluative studies for large-scale, donor-funded programmes in health, governance and resilience themes. Arif was the Bangladesh lead for the innovative and ambitious Climate Asia research programme, working on study design and delivery as well as analysing the study results to build a comprehensive picture of how different groups of people in Bangladesh live and deal with climate change, environmental issues and extreme weather. As such, he has an in-depth understanding of the socio-economic factors that underpin communities’ responses to climate change in Bangladesh; and strong insights into how media and communications can be used to help improve climate resilience in the country. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-13-bbc-media-action

Fred chats with Dr John Parker, lecturer in African history. He shares how Blues music informed his research interest in death and dying.

When public office opened up for women among the states of the early 20th century, there were generally two exceptions: women were not allowed to join the military or diplomacy. Not until the past two decades have a growing number of women entered diplomacy. What does the encounter between women and diplomacy – which was male-dominated for over a century – look like? In what ways are diplomatic practices gendered? How do women diplomats experience and navigate the gendered terrain of diplomacy? What theoretical insights might a study of gender and diplomacy bring to diplomatic studies and its recent turn to practices? Marissa Conway, CFFP Co-Founder and UK Director is joined by Professor Ann Towns - PI of the Gender and Diplomacy (GenDip) Program in political science at the University of Gothenburg, who will address these questions in a talk on her new book project.

This week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict. Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting the country to witness the political changes associated with its transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian government. He witnessed Myanmar’s 2010 general election and met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from house arrest. Ronan has provided comment for the BBC, Al Jazeera, TIME, and the Guardian and has written widely about Myanmar. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-12-rohingya-crisis

This is episode 8 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.

This is episode 9 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode, we talk to Fez from SWARM, the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement about the he work that they have been doing towards the decriminalisation of sex work and their views on the notion of consent in sex work. We will also hear a testimony from a former sex worker. Produced by Laura Siegler SWARM website: https://www.swarmcollective.org/

Professor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this episode, Almira is joined by Dr Mulaika Hijjas, lecturer in the Southeast Asian Studies Department. She talks about her journey into the Jawi language and the Malay Manuscript Tradition, and what it means to her to teach Southeast Asia from afar.

This is the final episode of Consent Vent, in which Sonja discusses the outcome of this series, and the potential risk of consent becoming a buzzword.

This is episode 7 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode we hear an anonymous testimony from a SOAS Student as well as from Carlos of Maricumbia.

This is episode 6 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode our producer Celine spoke to students about exoticisation & fetishisation and how it relates to consent.

Enough good jobs are vital to social cohesion. But people can't get and keep good jobs without skills. Mushtaq Khan and Jess Sinclair Taylor look into a highly funded development sector, skills training, and ask what could be done to combat corruption in the skills sector, using Mushtaq's work in Bangladesh as an example. The results have some far wider implications than you might imagine.

Professor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this episode, Fred talks to SOAS alumnus Dr Benjamin Dix, as he shares the story which led him to found Positive Negatives - a nonprofit organisation that produces comics, animations and podcasts about complex social and humanitarian issues.

This week, we welcome Professor Ronda Zelezny-Green to speak about Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya. Ronda is a mobile technologist, educator, and researcher, whose professional experience spans the public, private, and civil society sectors. She specialises in educational technology (especially mobile learning), gender, teaching and training, and policy advice. Ronda regularly publishes in academic forums, and is globally recognised as the world’s foremost expert in gender and mobile learning, and she is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in this area. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-11-mobile-education-in-kenya

Welcome on an exploration of the power of singing and performance to give people voice where words alone fail. Paige Annelize takes us behind the scenes into two creative communities, the Everyday People choir and Borderline theatre ensemble, finding out how their refugee and asylum seeker members engage in expression, resistance and healing.

Professor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this episode, Almira speaks with Dr Angela Impey, reader of Ethnomusicology and convener of the MA Music in Development. She introduces her latest book - 'Song Walking: Women, music and environmental justice in an African borderland', and speaks on the relationship between music and ideas of migration, memory and place.

In a first podcast from the SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence research consortium, Mushtaq Khan joins Jessica Sinclair Taylor to explain why standard, off-the-shelf approaches to anti-corruption in developing countries are failing. So what's to be done? Mushtaq unpacks the ACE approach to corruption and tells us why he thinks it can provide some solutions.

Dick Twitch and Venus Flytrap introduce us to the stimulating world of audio porn and to their first project as a duo, "Fuck Me in the Ear". They also ran a workshop last April at the London Porn Film Festival inviting participants to create scenarios, sexy stories and stimulating noises. Be prepared for an *explicit* voyage into the aural side of sex! Excerpts from: fuckmeintheear.wordpress.com Music: Wtp "K.T.S.E" - Teyana Taylor Love Song - Dent May Producer: Laura Siegler

Professor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this first episode, Fred chats with Dr Caspar Melville, convener of the MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries. He walks listeners through 5 of his favourite records and how they informed his research for his upcoming book: 'It’s a London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House and Jungle Remapped the City'. Connect with Caspar: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff86379.php https://twitter.com/CasparMelville https://www.waterstones.com/book/its-a-london-thing/caspar-melville/9781526131256 Full Playlist: https://bit.ly/2EvtjWj

This is episode 5 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode we spoke to Juliet Grayson, pyschosexual therapist and founder of STOPSO a charity that offers therapy and counselling to convicted and potential sexual offenders. We spoke to her about her work with STOPSO, what makes someone become a sex offender as well as how she thinks our criminal justice system can be reformed to prevent sexual violence. You can find out more about the work of STOPSO and donate at ⇨ https://stopso.org.uk/ ⇦ Other organisations mentioned in the episode were; ⇨Circles of Support and Accountability, who recruit volunteers to help people who have caused sexual harm to take accountability for their actions. https://www.circles-uk.org.uk/ ⇦ ⇨The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, who work to educate organisations in order to prevent sexual violence towards children www.lucyfaithfull.org.uk ⇦ ⇨ Stop It Now, who are a child sexual abuse prevention campaign and helpline run by the Lucy Faithfull Foundation www.stopitnow.org.uk ⇦ You can use this form to give us feedback or recommendations (this can be anonymous). ⇨ goo.gl/forms/hpJS8S7GqhJiCQj53 ⇦ Thank you for listening ! Produced by Mary Holditch for SOAS Radio Featuring Paul Whittaker and Saarah Ahmed.

Zaynab and Laura talk to Ibtehal Hussein from Campaign Against Arms Trade about Yemen and the UK's arms trade with the Saudi-led coalition. The UN has qualified the humanitarian crisis in Yemen the worst in the world, bombings in the region are putting no less than 80% of the population at risk of famine, and 85,000 of children have already died of starvation. What is the role of the UK's government and institutions in this crisis? Facebook: @campaignagainstarmstrade Twitter: @CAATuk

Part of the team behind London’s upcoming FLAWA festival take over the Movimientos show to discuss the gender gap in the arts, filmmaking with a smartphone and the diversity of events at the Festival of Latin American Women in Arts 15th-19th May. http://flawafestival.co.uk/

WE'RE BACK WITH OUR 10TH EPISODE!!! This week, we welcome Dr. Dounia Mahlouly to speak about Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives. Dr. Mahlouly is lecturing at SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications. She conducted her PhD research at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the American University in Cairo and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London, as part of the European consortium VOX-Pol. Her research interests are in the area of Media Studies and Political Communication. Her work focuses on the interplay between state and non-state actors' communication strategies in post-2011 North Africa. She is about to publish an ethnography of research in 'violent online political extremism', which is designed as a contribution to the current academic debates in critical terrorism studies. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-10-counter-narratives

Dr Clark talks about the need for justice to be done in accessible, community spaces and how his book takes lessons learned from Rwanda and uses this to critique the broader workings of the International Criminal Court. We discuss the civil society space in Rwanda that and Dr Clark explains why it is a difficult space to operate in and how academic research by Rwandans can help to break this space open.

In this episode, Laura talks with Marc Ghazali, the organiser of Layers of a Ghost City, a walking tour of Downtown Beirut. Marc tells us about the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut after the Civil War and its impact on the urban and social fabric of the area. With the participation of Arjun Banerjee.

This week, we welcome Dr. Yenn Lee, to speak about Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea. Yenn is an active researcher in the field of digital culture and politics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. At SOAS she also designs and delivers an institution-wide training programme for doctoral researchers. In addition to providing courses and workshops on research methods and skills, both online and offline, she is responsible for a range of other tasks to enhance postgraduate research experience. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-9-molka-in-south-korea

Listen to Saffa talk about her experience growing up in Holland as a Sudanese.

Taken from the LIVE SOAS Series Born in Shiraz, Iran, Peyman Heydarian (پیمان حیدریان) is an award-winning santur (Iranian hammer dulcimer) virtuoso, computer scientist and musicologist. Over the years, he has adopted innovative tuning systems and performance techniques to play a multi-ethnic repertoire on santur and developed computer algorithms for the analysis of Persian musical signals. In addition to teaching at various London universities, Peyman has toured the world with his multi-ethnic programme ‘The Voice of Santur’ since 2010.

Urban Echoes Episode 2 In this episode, Mr B. tells us about being a teacher in London and the difficulties that schools and students are facing in the current socio-political landscape. Helped by a bottle of whisky, Mr B. navigates through the memories of his childhood and school life in India. Interviewer: Laura Siegler

This week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.ai, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good. Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is anthropology and media studies. He has conducted big data / big culture research in over 70 countries across clients and industries. At Quilt.ai he is working on integrating the latest advances in cognitive computing with the exponentially increasing human data that is being openly generated to conduct anthropology at scale. For almost a decade, Anurag Banerjee ran a 800 person team for global business development at American Express. He built a fee based Travel Big Data business to $1BB before starting on his entrepreneurial journey. He was employee number one at Jana Mobile (invested in by Publicis and Verizon ventures with $100MM raised). Post exiting Jana, he raised $150MM across multiple ventures he has backed / advised. SocialCops is his venture prior to Quilt.ai was funded by Ratan Tata & work for India’s Prime Minister Modi. Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-8-ai-for-social-good

This is episode 4 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. This week we talk to Ella and Nana, co-founders of Black Fly, a sexual health zine for people of colour. We discussed the experiences that led them to create the zine, how they put it together and how it has led them to the work they are doing now. It was a lot of fun to record as well as very informative. Enjoy! You can find out more about black fly @blackflyzine on twitter and instagram or order their first issue here. ⇨ https://blackflyzine.bigcartel.com/ ⇦ You can use this form to give us feedback or recommendations (this can be anonymous). ⇨ goo.gl/forms/hpJS8S7GqhJiCQj53 ⇦ Co-Produced by Celine Raynaud and Mary Holditch for SOAS Radio Featuring Jamila Versi, Celine Raynaud and Zaynab Siqqiqui.

Enjoy our parody of a popular talk show... P.S. Not our own views!

During reading week of term two, CISD students went for a five day study trip to the UN Headquarters in Geneva. Tune in to listen to participating students' reflections on the trip.

The talk show you have been waiting for is finally here! We deliver the tea piping hot every week! From the issues of growing up in the diaspora to being young, Black and British in today's society.

Despite significant increases in agricultural productivity in the past 50 years and falling food prices, hunger, malnutrition and poor health are persistent development challenges. According to the WHO, almost half a billion people are underweight, and 155 million children were chronically under-nourished in 2016. At the other extreme, excess food consumption has helped trigger global epidemics of overweight, obesity, and food-related chronic disease. It’s widely acknowledged that the agricultural and food systems can play a pivotal role in promoting more nutritious and sustainable diets for populations all over the world. As such, the agriculture, nutrition, and health sectors can work together to enhance human health and wellbeing. In this podcast, we will examine why it’s important to create links between agriculture, health and nutrition. We will also explore the work of Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA), a research initiative funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and coordinated by the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH). The speakers are Dr. Suneetha Kadiyala, Associate Professor in Nutrition-sensitive development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Principal Investigator, IMMANA, and Elizabeth Hull, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Deputy Chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre, SOAS.

My guest Parsa enlightens us on why Nader Shah was able to be so successful and also on his meteoric decline as well. Along the way we discuss things from the psychology of war to Iranian Nationalism!

In Conversation with Max Graef from RadioActive, for World Radio Day 2019. "RadioActive offers a full range of technical services for radio stations and studios – including technical advice and feasibility studies, studio design and installation, creation of radio imaging (jingles, adverts and trailers), radio production training and ongoing technical support" https://radioactive.org.uk/