Brighton’s resident “Kora King” Jali Burama Mbye plays live in the studio and tells us of his childhood in Africa where he was trained in the traditional art of the Gambian Griot from a young age.
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Featuring cookery from the young people at the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project in 2011:. Together we made Sudanese falafel, Chinese sweet and sour, Kurdish Dolma and chocolate chip cookies.
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The author of Little Daughter and human rights activist, Zoya Phan talks to Refugee Radio about her life and shares her favourite music from home
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Video journalist Min Htut Oo (Burma VJ) talks about his work with Democratic Voice Burma and the campaign to free imprisoned journalists.
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Htoo Wah (star of the documentary Moving to Mars) talks of life in the Burmese refugee camps and shares his Desert Island Discs. This interview was made possibly by Burma Campaign UK.
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Burmese Human Rights campaigner, Seng Pan, tells us about her journey to the UK and the persecution of the Kachin people. Featuring the music she brought with her when she came to the UK.
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This programme was made by Jenny Reina and Zubair in 2012 as part of our refugee mentoring project to help people use radio to tell their stories. One man’s fight for survival and justice after fleeing Afghanistan to escape death at the...
As part of the Refugee Radio Orchestra project, we talk to Amir, an Iranian pop singer who joined our in-house band.
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Refugee Radio Orchestra, Bakk Lamp Fall and Planet Gnawa live at the Komedia, Brighton, 2010
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Mohamoud Abdi Jama left Somaila as a war orphan at 13. A decade later, he found himself locked up in an immigration prison “indefinitely” in a Catch22 nightmare: he could not be sent back to Somalia because it was too dangerous to fly...