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Join us for this episode where we spoke to Gio, a physics student here at KCL. We discusses about differences between timetables, group projects, hobbies, and even sleep!

Welcome back! We catch you up on the break we have had, whilst doing some reflection on the year that's passed, as well as looking forward to what is to come. Join us again for another season!

King's Eco is here! Now broadcasting from the KCL Podcast Studios.

In this episode, Gaby Sambuccetti speaks with⁠ Natalie Thorpe (UK)⁠, Grants and Prizes Design Manager at the ⁠Society of Authors⁠, where she helps manage the organisation’s grants, prizes and awards.

Natalie joined the Society of Authors in November 2022. In her role, she works to support writers and strengthen opportunities within the literary community, helping recognise and celebrate outstanding literary work.

Together, Gaby and Natalie explore literary support, grants and prizes, the challenges facing writers today, and the importance of creating opportunities for a thriving and diverse literary community.

🎙️ King's Eco — A podcast on Latin American Literature.

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King's Eco is here! Now broadcasting from the KCL Podcast Studios.

This season’s challenge:10 minutes in English + 10 minutes in Spanish

In this episode, Gaby Sambuccetti speaks with Erna von der Walde, a Colombian essayist, translator and independent researcher whose work has shaped contemporary discussions on Latin American literature, culture and politics.

She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Essex and has taught at New York University and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She is the co-editor of the acclaimed centenary edition of La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera.

Together they explore literature, memory, translation, cultural criticism and the enduring relevance of Latin American thought in today's world.

🎙️ King's Eco — A podcast on Latin American Literature.

#ErnaVonDerWalde #LaNinfaEco #KingsEco #GabySambuccetti #latinamericanauthors #politicalphilosophy #latinamerica #writers #ukwriters #colombianwriters #colombianauthors #authorsfromcolombia #academics #lavoragine #colombia

King's Eco is here! Now broadcasting from the KCL Podcast Studios.

This season’s challenge:10 minutes in English + 10 minutes in Spanish

Gaby Sambuccetti talks with our guest, Leo Boix:

Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet, translator and educator born in Argentina who lives in the UK. His first collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Boix is the co-director of Un Nuevo Sol, a national scheme to nurture new Latinx writers in the UK. He is the editor of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latin American Poetry (2025). He was the recipient of the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize 2018, the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019 and a PEN Award in 2021. Boix was mentored on ⁠The Complete Works (poetry)⁠ poets of colour mentoring scheme initiated by ⁠Bernardine Evaristo⁠ to redress representational invisibility.

His last book ⁠Southernmost: Sonnets ⁠was shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes.

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King's Eco is here! Now broadcasting from the KCL Podcast Studios.

This season’s challenge:10 minutes in English + 10 minutes in Spanish

Gaby Sambuccetti talks with our guest Oscar Guardiola-Rivera:

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of two critically acclaimed books, What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) was listed as a Book of the Year, Non-fiction by the Financial Times, won the Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Writing by the Caribbean Philosophical Association, 2010, was nominated for the Gladstone Prize 2011 and for the George Orwell Award for Political Writing, and was features by the BBC Today programme with Andrew Marr.

Story of a Death Foretold (Bloomsbury, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2014 Bread & Roses Award, and listed as a Book of the Year, Non-Fiction by The Observer in 2013.

More recently, he has published In Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (Bogota: UTadeo, 2019), “A Future for the Philosophy of Liberation” in Decolonising Ethics (Pennsylvania University Press, 2020), and the poetic novel Night of the World (The 87 Press, forthcoming 2021). He is a Fellow of the RSA. His “Peace & War” Reformation and the docu-video “Art & Fire: A Journey in Five Films”, with Hay Festivals, are available at https://hayfestival.com

He has been the recipient of grants by the Leverhulme Trust and CAPES, among others, for research and teaching on peace-making, mediation and conflict-resolution, political philosophy and legal theory, art & human rights, human rights and international law, peoples' tribunals, advanced constitutional law and ethics, with an emphasis on decolonial and visual methodologies, political economy, and racial justice.

He curated the 2018 Global '68 exhibition & conference in Paris and London together with Françoise Vergés and Marcus Rediker, and the 2017 Global Art Forum with Shumon Basra and Antonia Carver. Since at least 2015 he has curated the yearly 'Focus on the Funk' gathering between some of the most important thinkers, artists and activists interested in issues of social and racial justice today. He has taught at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and regularly collaborates with Monocle Radio, BBC and BBC World Service, The Guardian, The Independent and El Espectador among other public media.

     #Oscarguardiolarivera #LaNinfaEco #GabySambuccetti #latinamericanauthors #politicalphilosophy #latinamerica #writers #ukwriters

Season 4 is here!

Now broadcasting from the KCL Podcast Studios.

This season’s challenge:10 minutes in English + 10 minutes in Spanish

Gaby Sambuccetti talks with our first guest, Juan Toledo, Colombian writer, translator, podcaster and editor based in London.

Juan studied chemistry in Colombia before moving into literature, philosophy, translation and Hispanic studies in London. He has worked with the British Council, directed an independent radio station in Brixton, and currently co-hosts the podcasts Artefacto and The Programme. He is also editor of the bilingual cultural magazine Perro Negro and author of the poetry collection Ocurrencias y recurrencias (2022).

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Our last episode before first year ends! We have Alex’s best friend on for this episode, Sainthavi, who joins us to conclude this years season. Sainthavi and Alex have been friends for six years, and they have gone through multiple eras of their lives together. Today though, Sainthavi is a Med student with aspiring dreams of being a popstar. This episode is scatter with laughter, bloopers, and of course dissections of incredibly important questions like: ‘Would a Vampire or Zombie win in a fight?’ (We may or may not also have a sneaky guest in the background too so watch out for the mumbles as they share life changing advice)

helloooo this week we are talking about….. celebrity relationships! we chat with the amazing Victoria from Moodwatching about all things romantic in the world of celebrities. this episode is wayyyy overdue and a tiny bit outdated (we filmed in december) but we hope you enjoy and are having a nice beginning to summer .☘︎ ݁˖

I am joined by the director and producer of Curiosity Killed the Cat, an upcoming KCL Film Society funded short film! I ask them the process behind writing and making the film, what the experience has taught them and what films inspire them!

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