Produced by Ollie Sanderson-Nichols: Following the incendiary revelations in 2011 that members of the Metropolitan Police Service, posing as activists, had been tasked with implanting themselves within protest groups and social movements betwee

#47: Vigilantism, Villainy and the Dark Knight

Oct 6th, 2022 20m 24s

Producer Precious Odunaiya explains that in popular culture, vigilantes are imagined as heroes who fight for a form of justice that the legal system fails to achieve. Drawing on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, this podcast investigates

#46 The Power of Bereavement

Sep 5th, 2022 16m 47s

Producer Lucy Knollys explores the movement of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. During the Argentinian ‘Dirty War’ 1976-83, around 30,000 people were disappeared by the state. Mothers took to the streets to demand justice for their missing chi

#45 Gilet Jaunes

Sep 5th, 2022 19m 11s

Producer Zuzu Walker explores the significance of costume in political protest. With help from Prof Andy Lavender, the podcast specifically examines the gilet jaunes (yellow Vests) used across the French protests from 2018-2021. Using the work

#44 The Dying Art Of Protesting

Sep 5th, 2022 18m 38s

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#43 Kettling

Sep 5th, 2022 19m 53s

Producer Ashvin Kapilan explores the use of police power in the UK, focussing on the controversial technique of 'kettling'. Featuring the work of Prof Mark Neocleous, the podcast exposes how the concept of security is often used to increase and

#42 The Crime of Silence

Apr 8th, 2022 25m 2s

Producer: Maya Viswa. This podcast will explore the 26 year Sri Lankan Civil War and its’ repercussions in modern day Sri Lanka. It will focus on the concept of disappearance as a symbol of a never ending conflict. It connects together a lack o

#41 The Horrors of Tulsa

Feb 21st, 2022 20m 25s

Produced by Zosha Elleston, the podcast will explore and analyse the 1921 Tulsa riots and massacre. Shooting, theft and unlawful detention were just some of the atrocities that arose from the conflict between the prosperous black neighbourhood

#40 ACT UP, Fight Back

Jan 5th, 2022 25m 18s

Producer Eva Djukic explains that it’s difficult to imagine a world in which AIDS isn’t normalised. This podcast tells the untold struggle that non-hegemonic classes went through to thrust AIDS onto the political agenda. Not everyone can remain

#39 Riots - Who Dunnit?

Nov 2nd, 2021 20m 15s

Sacha Houghton: One murder victim. Two detectives. Three suspects.... Except, this time, there’s no murder victim. In this unconventional and dry-humoured podcast, you will determine the cause of riots the only way you know how - via a murder m

#38 American Chains and Prison Cells

Sep 30th, 2021 25m

Catherine Nkuo: Racism continues to play a significant role in the arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of black citizens. This podcast explores the question of whether there is systematic racism in US law enforcement, and how this facilitates

#37 Al-Thawra; The Lebanese Revolution is a Woman

Sep 30th, 2021 20m 10s

Celine Dib: This podcast will centre around the protests that began in October 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon. The aim of the protests, or ‘Al-Thawra’ in arabic, is the decentralisation and uprooting of Lebanon’s corrupt government. Women have been an

#36 Remnants Of Apartheid

Sep 30th, 2021 20m 54s

Zahra Abdul-Malik: Apartheid remains. Even decades after its formal end, it is still interwoven in South African politics. This podcast explores the spatial politics of South Africa's transition from apartheid. It explores the history of land d

#35 Behind the Curtains a Revolution - Romania

Jul 22nd, 2021 20m 1s

Andrada Tudose: After nine days of violent protests and over one thousand deaths, the Romanian Revolution finally ended with the execution of the dictator, on 25th December 1989. Many years after the fall of the regime, evidence has come to the

#34 Mourning Interrupted: Lebanon's Deep Wounds

Jul 22nd, 2021 24m 11s

Alaa Fawaz: The remnants of the Lebanese Civil War and its wounds remain visible in Lebanon today. In August 2020, the devastating Beirut port explosion caused the death of over 200 hundred people in the capital city and shook the nation to its

#33 Argentina: The Birth of Legal Abortion

Jul 22nd, 2021 23m 50s

Emma Baker produces a podcast on legal abortion in Argentina and the social movements which lead to this change. From colonial influences on gender norms and the strong Catholic Church that came with the Spanish colonisers, to women’s rights de

#32 Conflicts of the Niger Delta

Jul 22nd, 2021 20m 11s

Producer: Esther Ofulue. The negative consequences that flow from the abundance of crude oil in this region has been popularly termed as “The Niger Delta Conflict”. However, what this podcast aims to show is that whilst oil is a key component o

#31 No Dam About Nam

Jul 22nd, 2021 21m 51s

Producer: Linzi Bandtock: Not your average war story. An expose of the racial, class and gendered inequity that was shrouded within the Vietnam wars anti-war movement. Through the exploration of civil disobedience and the student movement, I un

#30 No Man's Land - The London Riots

Jul 22nd, 2021 30m 41s

Producer: Hubbab Nasir: Criminals, lazy looters and the mindless underclass; this was the narrative pushed by numerous politicians and academics after the 2011 UK riots. For many, the riots simply boiled down to greed. However, the problem with

#29 Chaos on the High Seas: The Sea Shepherd

Jul 22nd, 2021 21m 33s

Ben Potgieter: The Sea Shepherds are a grey area phenomenon. Operating on the high seas their direct action challenges states on the international stage, an arena traditionally off-limits for non-state actors. This podcast looks at the Sea Shep

#28 Troubles: Escalation & Militarisation

Jul 22nd, 2021 24m 39s

Ria Dogra: On the 14th August, 1969, British soldiers took to the streets of Northern Ireland to de-escalate ongoing tensions between Catholics and Protestants. With their arrival came a new glimmer of hope. However, this sentiment did not last

#27 The Cracks of Impunity

Jul 22nd, 2021 23m 7s

Producer: Kush Popat. In 1965, Indonesia underwent a seismic period of societal upheaval following a genocide which culled the population by more than 500,000. Freemen roamed freely as gangsters, enlisted by the government to commit incomprehen

#26 The Great Betrayal - The Lawyer's Movement

Jul 22nd, 2021 18m 6s

Producer: Drakhshandae Badar. The lawyer’s movement of 2007 in Pakistan managed to revive a judiciary whose independence had been quashed by the military dictator General Pervez Musharraf and it fought to restore democracy in a country plagued

#25 A Force: The Black Panther Women

Jul 22nd, 2021 20m 51s

Producer: Victoria Fayemi. This podcast explores the work of Black Panther Women in the 1970s and 80s. To showcase how they organised to liberate the Black community from social, economic and political state oppression. Whilst placing women gen

#24: (Un)American: Racial Infrastructures

Dec 22nd, 2020 22m 25s

Producer: Adaugo Uko. This podcast explores the hyper-normalisation of inequality and injustice through the racial infrastructure established in the US after the abolishment of Slavery. We see the death of Emmett Till, and the extraordinary act