Dick Twitch and Venus Flytrap introduce us to the stimulating world of audio porn and to their first project as a duo, "Fuck Me in the Ear". They also ran a workshop last April at the London Porn Film Festival inviting participants to create scenarios, sexy stories and stimulating noises. Be prepared for an *explicit* voyage into the aural side of sex! Excerpts from: fuckmeintheear.wordpress.com Music: Wtp "K.T.S.E" - Teyana Taylor Love Song - Dent May Producer: Laura Siegler
May 24, 2019•26 min
Professor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this first episode, Fred chats with Dr Caspar Melville, convener of the MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries. He walks listeners through 5 of his favouri...
May 23, 2019•42 min
This is episode 5 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode we spoke to Juliet Grayson, pyschosexual therapist and founder of STOPSO a charity that offers therapy and counselling to convicted and potential sexual offenders. We spoke to her about her work with STOPSO, what makes someone become a sex offender as well as how she thinks our criminal justice system can be reformed to prevent sexual violence. You can find out more about the work of STOPSO and donate at ⇨ https://sto...
May 22, 2019•48 min
Zaynab and Laura talk to Ibtehal Hussein from Campaign Against Arms Trade about Yemen and the UK's arms trade with the Saudi-led coalition. The UN has qualified the humanitarian crisis in Yemen the worst in the world, bombings in the region are putting no less than 80% of the population at risk of famine, and 85,000 of children have already died of starvation. What is the role of the UK's government and institutions in this crisis? Facebook: @campaignagainstarmstrade Twitter: @CAATuk
May 10, 2019•27 min
Part of the team behind London’s upcoming FLAWA festival take over the Movimientos show to discuss the gender gap in the arts, filmmaking with a smartphone and the diversity of events at the Festival of Latin American Women in Arts 15th-19th May. http://flawafestival.co.uk/
May 10, 2019•59 min
WE'RE BACK WITH OUR 10TH EPISODE!!! This week, we welcome Dr. Dounia Mahlouly to speak about Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives. Dr. Mahlouly is lecturing at SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications. She conducted her PhD research at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the American University in Cairo and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London, as part of the European consortium VOX-Pol. Her research interests are in the area of Media Studies and Po...
May 05, 2019•30 min
Dr Clark talks about the need for justice to be done in accessible, community spaces and how his book takes lessons learned from Rwanda and uses this to critique the broader workings of the International Criminal Court. We discuss the civil society space in Rwanda that and Dr Clark explains why it is a difficult space to operate in and how academic research by Rwandans can help to break this space open.
May 03, 2019•30 min
In this episode, Laura talks with Marc Ghazali, the organiser of Layers of a Ghost City, a walking tour of Downtown Beirut. Marc tells us about the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut after the Civil War and its impact on the urban and social fabric of the area. With the participation of Arjun Banerjee.
Apr 22, 2019•54 min
This week, we welcome Dr. Yenn Lee, to speak about Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea. Yenn is an active researcher in the field of digital culture and politics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. At SOAS she also designs and delivers an institution-wide training programme for doctoral researchers. In addition to providing courses and workshops on research methods and skills, both online and offline, she is responsible for a range of other tasks to enhance postgraduate r...
Mar 22, 2019•26 min
Listen to Saffa talk about her experience growing up in Holland as a Sudanese.
Mar 22, 2019•15 min
Taken from the LIVE SOAS Series Born in Shiraz, Iran, Peyman Heydarian (پیمان حیدریان) is an award-winning santur (Iranian hammer dulcimer) virtuoso, computer scientist and musicologist. Over the years, he has adopted innovative tuning systems and performance techniques to play a multi-ethnic repertoire on santur and developed computer algorithms for the analysis of Persian musical signals. In addition to teaching at various London universities, Peyman has toured the world with his multi-ethnic ...
Mar 15, 2019•1 hr 23 min
Urban Echoes Episode 2 In this episode, Mr B. tells us about being a teacher in London and the difficulties that schools and students are facing in the current socio-political landscape. Helped by a bottle of whisky, Mr B. navigates through the memories of his childhood and school life in India. Interviewer: Laura Siegler
Mar 14, 2019•51 min
This week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.ai, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good. Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is anthropology and media studies. He has conducted big data / big culture research in over 70 countries across clients and industries. At Quilt.ai he is working on integrating the latest advances in cognitive com...
Mar 12, 2019•35 min
This is episode 4 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. This week we talk to Ella and Nana, co-founders of Black Fly, a sexual health zine for people of colour. We discussed the experiences that led them to create the zine, how they put it together and how it has led them to the work they are doing now. It was a lot of fun to record as well as very informative. Enjoy! You can find out more about black fly @blackflyzine on twitter and instagram or order their first issue here. ⇨ https://bl...
Mar 12, 2019•44 min
Enjoy our parody of a popular talk show... P.S. Not our own views!
Mar 08, 2019•1 hr 31 min
During reading week of term two, CISD students went for a five day study trip to the UN Headquarters in Geneva. Tune in to listen to participating students' reflections on the trip.
Mar 07, 2019•46 min
The talk show you have been waiting for is finally here! We deliver the tea piping hot every week! From the issues of growing up in the diaspora to being young, Black and British in today's society.
Mar 07, 2019•1 hr 35 min
Despite significant increases in agricultural productivity in the past 50 years and falling food prices, hunger, malnutrition and poor health are persistent development challenges. According to the WHO, almost half a billion people are underweight, and 155 million children were chronically under-nourished in 2016. At the other extreme, excess food consumption has helped trigger global epidemics of overweight, obesity, and food-related chronic disease. It’s widely acknowledged that the agricultur...
Mar 06, 2019•14 min
My guest Parsa enlightens us on why Nader Shah was able to be so successful and also on his meteoric decline as well. Along the way we discuss things from the psychology of war to Iranian Nationalism!
Feb 26, 2019•1 hr 8 min
In Conversation with Max Graef from RadioActive, for World Radio Day 2019. "RadioActive offers a full range of technical services for radio stations and studios – including technical advice and feasibility studies, studio design and installation, creation of radio imaging (jingles, adverts and trailers), radio production training and ongoing technical support" https://radioactive.org.uk/
Feb 19, 2019•24 min
In conversation with Research and Project Manager of Positive Negatives - Sara Wong. "PositiveNegatives produce comics, animations and podcasts about contemporary social and humanitarian issues. We combine ethnographic research with illustration, adapting personal stories into art, education and advocacy materials" https://positivenegatives.org/about/
Feb 19, 2019•25 min
In Conversation with Vanessa Berhe and her campaign 'One Day Seyoum' working for the release of her uncle and journalist Seyoum Tsehaye who has been illegaly detained since 2001. http://onedayseyoum.com/
Feb 19, 2019•14 min
In conversation with guest Hannah Clark (Lorna Young Foundation, Farmer Radio) More on the Lorna Young Foundation: http://www.lyf.org.uk/
Feb 19, 2019•6 min
In conversation with Emma Heywood(FemmepowermentAfrique)after her sharing for World Radio Day at SOAS. Dr. Emma Heywood is a lecturer in journalism, politics and communication at the University of Sheffield. She is currently assessing the impact of radio and women's empowerment in Niger, as part of her project FemmePowermentAfrique. She has previously examined the role of local radio in NGO activities on the West Bank, and foreign conflict reporting and audience perceptions of the Israeli/Palest...
Feb 19, 2019•5 min
The Social Commentary: Religion is a Sin by SOAS Radio
Feb 18, 2019•11 min
Welcome to the 3rd episode of our 10 part series on consent. In this episode we will discuss what happens when you decide to report an incident of sexual assault or harassment at SOAS. To do this we spoke with Alex* who shared with us their experience of going through the complaints procedure at SOAS, hearing about the demands of the experience and the impact it had on their life and studies. We also spoke to campaign group Account For This SOAS to hear about the actions they are taking to trans...
Feb 11, 2019•33 min
For the second Episode of Dardasha, we met with performance and spoken word artist Farah Chamma. translation of the poem "Table Rase" by Farah Chamma (In French) Take everything I know Take everything I know and throw it in the Nile Like the mother of Moses did Don’t ask me where I am from Or where I was born Don’t look for what is written on my papers I am no one A nomad, a lost soul, a simple nomadic spirit I am a language without meter, without rhyme I am Arabic, Persian, Latin, German I am l...
Feb 11, 2019•32 min
This week we speak about Technologies of Financial Inclusion in Low Income Countries. a key focus for the Centre for Global Finance at SOAS, run by Professor Victor Murinde. Professor Victor Murinde is a financial economist, with more than 25 years’ expertise, mainly in academia, policy and consultancy roles for governments and leading international organisation. He was the founding Director of African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (2011-2014). Professor Murinde is curren...
Feb 06, 2019•24 min
Toslima is a PhD student at SOAS and her research topic studies the Abbasid Caliphate's trade with Europe and India.
Feb 05, 2019•46 min
This week we have 2 guests in the studio to talk about Queering the Internet, LGBTQ Representation Online. Following the repealing of section 377 in India. A law which gives hope for LGBT communities by making homophobia illegal. In this episode we explore the realities and how queer identity can exist online. Mayur Suresh is a Lecturer in Law at SOAS. In 2016, he was awarded a PhD from Birkbeck for this thesis titled ‘Terrorist’ lives in Delhi’s courts: An ethnography of the legal worlds of ter...
Jan 25, 2019•28 min
