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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 ⇦

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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/