Refugee Radio is a charity that supports refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants. We run community projects in Brighton & Hove targeting mental health, isolation and social exclusion. We also use radio and music to give a voice to those who do not have one.
Refugee Radio | Community Base | 113 Queens Road | Brighton | BN1 3XG | 01273 234868 | info@refugeeradio.org.uk
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Abdelrahman was arrested at the age of 17, just a curious young bystander in Egypt’s revolutionary chaos. He thought the police would...
Celebrating Library Week in Brighton with a selection of live courtesy of Best Foot Music. Featuring Bashir Al Gamar from Sudan and Kourosh...
Herbert is a Kenyan journalist and human rights defender who was forced to flee his home after exposing police violence in his country. In...
Hyab is a researcher at the Institute of Technology and is an expert in human trafficking. He was forced to flee his home in Eritrea...
Hamed Amiri talks about his book, out now from Icon Books, a love-letter to the NHS and a personal account of his family’s flight...
Political resistance and personal trauma; dehumanisation and the notion of “home”; we talk to Amir Darwish, a British-Syrian...
The poet, Shirin Razavian, talks about her life and work on the launch of a new book celebrating 20 years of Exiled Writers Ink...
Paul talks about the recent political violence back home in Uganda and the election struggle of reggae singer Bobi Wine, pictured. : Play...
Steve talks to the Kurdish musician Mansour Izadpanah about his life and work. Featuring a world exclusive premier of his new song...
Musician and activist, Rahima Mahmut, talks to Refugee Radio about her life in exile and about the persecution of the Uyghur Muslim...
Farah is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. She is a member of the Bahá’i Faith from Iran and has lived in the UK for a long time...
A preview of the forthcoming Refugee Week online concert with Best Foot Music, featuring interviews and live performances from Sudanese...
Kumar talks about the horrific persecution he faced as a gay man growing up in India and his desperate search for somewhere that would...
Steve and Ayah talk to David Miliband about the International Rescue Committee and their work with refugees around the world. : Play in new...
A selection of tunes from our house band, the Refugee Radio Orchestra, recorded in 2010. Hope you enjoy this fusion of refugee culture...
An in-depth interview with Kate Jessop, senior immigration lawyer from Brighton Housing Trust, recorded as part of the Castaway Heritage...
Peter from Zimbabwe talks about his work supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking children with mental health needs. We discuss how they...
“It was a nightmare, wasn’t good at all. According to the Home Office, they can come and take you away but you can’t say no. They can take...
Luqman Onikosi was born in a tiny village near the lakes and forests along the river Niger. I first met him when he was a student at the...
Ayah interviews Esraa, a young woman from Syria who came to live in Hastings with her family as part of the resettlement scheme. We find...
“I arrived into this country over twenty years ago and I’m currently working as an interpreter. I started interpreting on a voluntary basis...
“I am from Algeria. I am thirty-eight years old and I live twenty years in Europe, most of that time in UK. I left Algeria since 2000...
Interview with Syrian folk musicians Jamal & Alaa with their good friend, Phil Minns, founder of the refugee and migrant charity, Best...
What do you do when your government is making asylum seekers homeless on purpose as a way to punish them? What do you do with a...
Live recording of a public panel debate hosted by Refugee Radio and Hear Alkebulan at the Old Courthouse in Brighton : Play in new window |...
The Takeaway Heritage project interviews staff at MacDoner in Kemp Town, the kebab shop with the greatest name in the history of kebab...
Our Takeaway Heritage series continues with a feature on Kambis, a Lebanese restaurant and takeaway on the Brighton and Hove border. We...
The Takeaway Heritage series talks to Theo from Nick Cave’s favourite Greek restaurant, Archipelagos. Takeaway...
Continuing our Takeaway Heritage series, we talk to Ali and Esmeray who arrived in the UK as refugees from Turkey and have now set up their...
Shintya interviews Valerie, an LGBT asylum seeker from Cameroon who says he will be persecuted for his sexuality if he returns home. : Play...
Telephone interview with an LGBT asylum seeker from Cameroon who has been persecuted because of her sexuality. : Play in new window |...
Kep left Turkey when he was eighteen. He came to the UK to study English so that he could help run his father’s business importing and...
The intrepid Phil Minns, founder of refugee music charity Best Foot Music, travels to the Calais Jungle to record songs performed by...
Guy Hayes cycles to the “jungle” camps of Calais to deliver much-needed supplies and talk to the refugees stranded there as...
A telephone interview with a political activist, Maxwell, who is due to be removed back to Cameroon where he will face persecution as a...
A telephone interview recorded with Soumitra while he was imprisoned in Harmondsworth detention centre awaiting removal to Bangladesh where...
Refugee Radio presents An evening of poetry and music on the theme of human rights to celebrate the publication of “In Protest: 150 Poems...
A telephone interview recorded with Alain, a refugee who found himself homeless over the winter, with no family or friends to call on for...
These shows were produced in a series of Refugee Radio workshops by the young people at the Red Cross Refugees and Befriending projects in...
Live from the Sussex Kurdish Community banquet at Hove Town Hall in 2014, with Kurdish folk music from Suna Alan. : Play in new window |...
Osama Ahmadani talks to Trish Baxter, a retired refugee caseworker from a Plymouth charity who is still active in the community. Her story...
Osama Ahmadani interviews David Feindouno from Plymouth Hope about his work in the community using sport as a way to bring people together...
Osama Ahmadani talks to Waleed Abdallah, the founder of the Give Back project in Plymouth about his life and work combating racism and...
Osama Ahmadani talks to Sisu, one of the refugee volunteers from the Refugee Radio Resilience Panel who shares the “desert island...
Osama interviews Farah about her life as a member of the Baháʼí Faith from Iran, now living in the UK and working tirelessly for the...
Gabriel lost his leg in an operation, his wife in the immigration system and his liberty in detention. Here he talks to Osama about getting...
Robert has fled Southern Cameroon after being persecuted and tortured for speaking out against injustice for the SCNC. Now he is living in...
Alex Ntung speaks about his book on life in the DRC from childhood in a remote mountain village to a youth caught up in ethnic conflict and...
A special programme recorded outside Downing Street on October 1st with a group of people from the Southern Cameroon region who are...
Luqman is an academic from Nigeria who has been living in the UK since 2007.
Interviews with refugees and asylum seekers who are "castaway" on the (not a desert) desert island of the British Isles
One-off documentaries and special features about human rights and refugee issues
Music by refugee and asylum seeker musicians
