A live broadcast from a concert on 6th June, 2012 at the Roundhouse in Camden in association with Sandblast, featuring Aziza Brahim and Inua Ellams. This was an event to raise funds for music projects in the refugee camps of the Algerian desert...
Steve talks to Mr Freeborn about the culture and music of the Bakhtiari people, nomads of southwestern Iran.
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Cameroonian playwright and asylum seeker, Lydia Besong, was snatched and detained by the UK Home Office straight after staging a play criticising the asylum system. She was released after a massive protest, but her problems continued. I spoke to her...
Interview and readings from Ali Abolrezaei, banned from teaching and public speaking in Iran because of his writing, and Abol Froushan, one of the most important thinkers in post-exile literature. Ali Abdolrezaei Biography: Ali...
Live music and poetry from the Iranian Community in Brighton, with an amazing display of virtuosity on the santoor by Mr Shapouri and the history behind some mysterious Persian artefacts
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Elias tells us about his journey from the refugee camps of Ethiopia and his work with the Oromo Community in Brighton and Hove.
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A race against time to cook a fabulous Iranian dish of khoresht kadu for 50 hungry people with the Singing Chef! Meet Mister Freeborn.
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Highlights from World Sacred Music Festival’s Kora Night in Brighton, 2011, as part of our series of programmes on the African harp.
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We bake bread in a clay oven and make minestrone soup in the Mouslecoomb Forest Garden with the students and volunteers of the Migrant English Project.
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A shopping trip to a Turkish grocers leads to a new discovery. We make Taboulleh with feta cheese in Heval’s kitchen. Featuring tracks from Nizamettin Aric’s new album.
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