I Am My Own Correspondent

Coming out of COVID restrictions, I share what its like back in the field on my first film shoot since the pandemic in Ghana. 

Before digital nomads and social distancing, isolation has always been a way of life for Mongolians but when a health concern comes up how do they access services deep in the stepps? 

In Ukraine disputed Donbas region on the border with Russia, population control is less about the perscriptions and procedures and more about controlling the overwhelming violence occuring inside the homes while conflict rages outside. 

Spending most of my time in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, I felt the need to travel to Myanmar to experience the country where extremists persecuted and evicted over a million of it's own citizens- where I was met with a stifling silence. 

This episode marks the beginning of Season 2 which is sponsored by the charity Global Health Film. Visit globalhealthfilm.org to learn more abou t their work supporting storytellers for change.

In this anniversary episode celebrating one year of this podcast combined with a release from lockdown (again) we find ourselves in Bermuda discussing with a taxi driver the logistics of being locked down on an island in a real prison and not one created from COVID. 

With the US Election looming, this episode brings us back to 2015 to some inspirational Americans that redefined the American dream for me.

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Written and recorded during a hurricane looking back on one woman's story of survival of a cyclone while menstruating in Mozambique.

Not from an official film shoot, but unofficially many lessons learned from the highest mountain in Africa like how to knit a scarf while climbing, coffee beans bought at a petrol station are some of the best, and how to recognise the symptoms of HAPE-high-altitude pulmonary edema.

After a false start of filming a new documentary and surviving a snowstorm in the Middle East to get to Beirut, I reconnect with a friend from my Oxford days and learn about the human rights issues facing migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. 

Finishing my feature documentary WOMENstruate in Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, I had just wrapped my day filming in the first when I learned I had to skip to the last location completely unprepared. Listen to how I saved the shoot through creativitiy and by going outside my comfort zone with a little help from Madiba and the activists of Voice it in Action.