Rwandan artist, Patrice Shema and Dan Godshaw of rYcio talk about their new exhibition featuring audio recordings and paintings tackling the genocide of 1994.
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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...
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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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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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...
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...
Interview with Maalem Simo Lagnawi. The master Gnawa musician from Morocco plays live gambri in the studio and talks about the history of his culture.
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How asylum destroys personal relationships. Documentary by Vaska Trajkovska and Seyed for our Radio Mentoring Project in 2012. With contributions from Freedom from Torture, Medact, MIND & Nafsiyat. An Iranian asylum...