RADIKAAL

My guest is Shireen Ahmed, a writer, public speaker, and award-winning sports activist focusing on Muslim women in sports, as well as the intersections of racism and misogyny in sports. She also co-hosts the feminist sports podcast Burn It All Down. We will talk about the role of athletes in the Black Lives Matter protests. You can follow Shireen on Twitter at @_shireenahmed_.

In the latest episode I talk with Tess Owen, a VICE News reporter who covers the "extremism and guns" beat. Tess has recently written several pieces on the Boogaloo Boys. I will talk to her about covering the US far right, the Boogaloo Boys, and their role in the current protests against institutional racism and police brutality. You can follow her on Twitter at @misstessowen

In the latest episode I talk with Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi skinhead, who left the movement over a decade ago to devote his life to “breaking the hate” through his Free Radicals Project. In addition to being an acclaimed author and public speaker, Christian is also an Emmy-award winning producer of documentaries. Last year, he did a three-part special report series entitled “Breaking Hate” for MSNBC. Previously he published White American Youth: My Descent Into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement – And How I Got Outand this year he published Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism. You can follow him on Twitter at @cpicciolini.

In this episode I talk with Caterina Froio, an assistant professor of political science at SciencesPo in Paris and affiliated to the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo. We will be discussing far right politics in Italy, focusing in particular on her new (co-authored) book CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme-Right Politics. You can follow Caterina on Twitter at @CaterinaFroio.

My first guest is the British football writer James Montague, the award-winning author of four books, including When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East and Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football’s Outsiders. Having seen games in countries as far away and remote as North Korea and Yemen, James is the envy of all groundhoppers like myself. Today, we will talk about his new book, 1312: Among the Ultras, a fascinating read about the most radical elements in contemporary football. Highly recommended! You can follow James on Twitter at @JamesPiotr.