Albania is the subject of a moral panic over crime and trafficking. But what is really happening in the country and what does it mean for...
Patrick interviews Qahraman, an veterinarian from Kurdistan (Iraq), about his experiences of going through the asylum system. Qahraman was...
We talk to Phil Minns from Best Foot Music about the upcoming Razom event with the Ukrainian community and we hear new music from Bashir Al...
We talk to Jordan about his experience of fleeing persecution in the DRC and claiming asylum in Eastbourne, Sussex. : Play in new window |...
Basma Kamel is an activist against FGM and child marriage. She is a refugee from Egypt currently living and studying in the UK. In this...
Bekkie is a rapper and fashion blogger from Albania. In this programme, we listen to Incongruent Hiphoppa, Bekkie’s latest album, and...
Kolbassia Haoussou MBE is the co-founder of Survivors Speak OUT, an anti-torture network of refugees at Freedom From Torture. He has been...
Steve and Julie G visited the Hummingbird Young Leaders project in Brighton to meet the young refugees who are going to be the future...
Dina and Vlada talk about their lives in Ukraine, the impact of the Russian invasion and finding sanctuary in Brighton, UK. We have...
“When Ahmad’s life comes under threat by the Taliban in Afghanistan, he leaves his family behind for survival, without saying good...
Nanaha lives in a refugee camp for Saharawis in the Algerian desert. She works as a teacher for the Sandblast charity. In this programme...
Osba left his home in Ethiopia aged 15 after he was persecuted as a member of the Oromo ethnic group. He crossed the desert to Libya in...
Alvina Chibhamu was badly failed by maternity services and by the Home Office when she found herself having to claim asylum while pregnant...
Shahireh Sharif is an Iranian writer and photographer. She recently performed her solo work, “I am an Orange Dot,” about a...
Yusuf and Mjed are two refugee entrepreneurs who are kickstarting their exciting new social enterprises. In this programme we find out all...
Syrian-born architect and artist, Mohamad Hafez, takes us on a walk through the stree-tscenes of his miniature dioramas that transport the...
Marwa Al-Sabouni is an architect and writer from Homs, Syria. In this interview she talks about the problems in Syria before the war and...
Part Two of the interview: Nasrin Parvaz is a women’s and civil rights activist from Iran. She published her book “One Woman’s...
This programme is dedicated to the memory of Angelina, the beloved sister of our friend, Alex Ntung. Angelina was murdered by the DRC army...
Fuad is a refugee from Palestine who found family and friendship at Nam Yang Martial Arts Club in Brighton. In this programme we talk to...
Senait Mesfin Piccigallo talks to Refugee Radio about her new book “You’re in America – Now What?” a guide for...
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. : Play in new...
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...
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 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 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.
Performances by Senegalese musician Khadim Sarr; poets Ali Abdolrezai and Abol Froushan; and artist Hong Dam...
A recording of a talk we gave at the local medical school about refugee mental health in 2013.
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Rather than the ten-day business trip he came for, Karim has found himself locked up for over a year in the UK with a broken leg the...
Sold into modern-day slavery as a child, Chibong escaped to the UK only to be arrested. 18 months later he is still in immigration...
Refugee Radio presents a programme of short plays based on true life stories of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...
Ugandan poet, Jade Amoli-Jackson talks to Refugee Radio about her forthcoming book, Moving a Country, her life in Uganda and her work as a...
Refugee Radio Live at the Red Roaster Coffee House in Brighton, 2013 with the Ugandan poet, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Sudanese poets Osama...
Preview featuring the Ugandan poet, Jade Amoli-Jackson, Sudanese poet Osama Ahmadani, Kate Adams and Kurdish folk music from Zewa and Heval...
Afghan Voice Radio’s reporter, Ariadne, talks to photojournalist, Guy Smallman, about his work with refugees in Afghanistan. The...
Persecuted in Cameroon for his democratic activity, Ivo Kuka has been denied justice in the UK. Ivo Kuka fled his home...
Refugee poetry from Ugandan writer Jade Amoli Jackson and Kurdish Iraqi journalist in exile Aso Mohammed including his incredibly...
The writer and activist, Kate Adams, reads from her new book inspired by her experiences as a volunteer visitor with refugees and asylum...
We meet the Bahá’í community in Brighton and Hove and learn about one of the world’s newest religions, with its principles of...
Panel discussion with Dr Delores Martinez, SOAS, following a screening of Rossella Schillaci‘s prizewinning documentary...
Rwandan artist, Patrice Shema and Dan Godshaw of rYcio talk about their new exhibition featuring audio recordings and paintings...
A live broadcast from a concert on 6th June, 2012 at the Roundhouse in Camden in association with Sandblast, featuring Aziza Brahim and...
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...
Interview and readings from Ali Abolrezaei, banned from teaching and public speaking in Iran because of his writing, and Abol...
Live music and poetry from the Iranian Community in Brighton, with an amazing display of virtuosity on the santoor by Mr Shapouri...
Elias tells us about his journey from the refugee camps of Ethiopia and his work with the Oromo Community in Brighton and Hove. :...
A race against time to cook a fabulous Iranian dish of khoresht kadu for 50 hungry people with the Singing Chef! Meet Mister Freeborn. :...
Highlights from World Sacred Music Festival’s Kora Night in Brighton, 2011, as part of our series of programmes on the African harp...
We bake bread in a clay oven and make minestrone soup in the Mouslecoomb Forest Garden with the students and volunteers of the Migrant...
A shopping trip to a Turkish grocers leads to a new discovery. We make Taboulleh with feta cheese in Heval’s kitchen. Featuring...
Brighton’s resident “Kora King” Jali Burama Mbye plays live in the studio and tells us of his childhood in Africa where...
Featuring cookery from the young people at the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project in 2011:. Together we made Sudanese falafel, Chinese sweet...
The author of Little Daughter and human rights activist, Zoya Phan talks to Refugee Radio about her life and shares her favourite...
Video journalist Min Htut Oo (Burma VJ) talks about his work with Democratic Voice Burma and the campaign to free imprisoned...
Htoo Wah (star of the documentary Moving to Mars) talks of life in the Burmese refugee camps and shares his Desert Island Discs. This...
Burmese Human Rights campaigner, Seng Pan, tells us about her journey to the UK and the persecution of the Kachin people. Featuring the...
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...
As part of the Refugee Radio Orchestra project, we talk to Amir, an Iranian pop singer who joined our in-house band. : Play in new window |...
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...
Interview with Maalem Simo Lagnawi. The master Gnawa musician from Morocco plays live gambri in the studio and talks about the history of...
How asylum destroys personal relationships. Documentary by Vaska Trajkovska and Seyed for our Radio Mentoring Project in 2012...
Underground Iranian hiphop from our special guest, Sina, who shares this unheard music from his home country and talks of his life as a...
Aspiring DJ and dancer, Flavi Bumba, takes us on a personal journey through his favourite Congolese music, from classic rhumba to...
Sudanese Online writer and human rights activist, Osama, reads from his work and shares some classical flute music from Sudan...
The heartbreaking story of Misheel, a Mongolian girl who dreamed of becoming the Princess of Liverpool. Also features Tuvan throat...
Interview with Peter Kessler, Senior Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees
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A Zimbabwean living in the UK, Francis tells us what it feels like to be a refugee and plays us some classic mbira and Chimurenga music as...
Alex is a homeless refugee from Iran who has to sleep on the streets in Brighton because nobody will help him. In this interview he tells...
We talk to Vivenie Mugunga, the young founder of the Rwandan Youth Information Community Organisation about her life and work. : Play in...
We talk to the young refugees and their volunteer befrienders from the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project at Brighton Young People’s...
We ran a workshop with the young people of Refugees Aloud, a Children’s Society project in East London and we got to meet...
Celia Turley talks to an Egyptian dancer and biochemist, Rosemary, about Coptic Christian culture and life in the UK. Her “desert...
Dr.Frank Arnold of Medical Justice recorded at the Crossing Borders event on the crisis of immigration healthcare and the lack of treatment...
Special Report on the UBUNTU Commemoration of the August 2004 Gatumba Refugee Camp Massacres, recorded on August 16th 2008 at Amnesty...
An Ethiopian world-pop maverick with fourteen albums under his belt talks exclusively about key issues of the day such as genies, African...
A Palestinian photojournalist talks about his work in the Iraqi refugee camps and in the Turkish mountains. Photo images accompanying this...
Interview with a young refugee from Burundi (and her baby!). Clarisse shares her “desert island discs” and the story of her...
In the first ever edition of Refugee Radio, Steve speaks to Heval who is a refugee from Afrin, the Kurdish region of Syria. Heval Akram by...