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Category Archives: Radio
Today on Ujima – HIV, Time Wars & Art
Today’s Women’s Outlook show was one of those where it seemed mostly calm on the surface, but it was all frantic paddling underneath. Yesterday I had one of my guests drop out, so I had a half hour to fill. … Continue reading
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New BBC SF Audiodrama
Our local media in Bristol keeps an eye on what the local BBC offices are up to. Today they had news of a new science-fiction audiodrama. Forest 404 is a post-apocalyptic story set in a world where forests no longer … Continue reading
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Today on Ujima – Cervical Screening, Interculture, Mental Health Awareness & San Francisco
It was a busy show on Women’s Outlook today, and I didn’t cope as well as I might have done. Apologies again to Ben the Engineer for the various screw-ups which, hopefully, we managed to cover up during the show. … Continue reading
Today on Ujima: Section 28, Masculinity, Hugos & Silence
It was a radio day for me today. I barely got the show together in time having been away over the weekend and had much of yesterday hijacked by the Hugos, but I got there in the end. In the … Continue reading
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Today on Ujima – Marlon, Periods, Queer Film & IWD
I began today’s show with some extracts from Marlon James’ Tolkien Lecture. You can listen to the whole thing here. The second segment was an interview with Chloe Tingle of No More Taboo, the period poverty charity. We talked about … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – #LGBTHM Special
The whole of today’s show on Ujima was devoted to LGBT History Month. I began with some interviews I made at the event in Taunton on Saturday. These were with Steven from the Taunton Gay Group Alex from Somerset Libraries, … Continue reading
This Week’s #LGBTHM Events
The event in Taunton on Saturday went off very well, and we are now full steam ahead into LGBT History Month. Here’s a reminder of what I’m doing this week. On Wednesday I will have an LGBTHM special edition of … Continue reading
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Yesterday on Ujima – Maternity, Careers and Mental Health
Yesterday’s show was supposed to start with my interviewing fellow Ujima presenter, Sandra Gordon, about a maternity rights event taking place in Bristol soon. Unfortunately circumstances intervened and I had to spend half an hour talking about maternity all by … Continue reading
Ujima Black History Month Special
I was in the studio today for a very special edition of Women’s Outlook. The entire show was co-presented by, and produced by, my good friend Olivette Otele. If you have been following my tweetage you will know that Olivette … Continue reading
Today On Ujima: Students, Clothing, Theatre & Feminism
Today’s show began with two wonderful guests from the University of the West of England. Noor and Josie are part of a small group who are pioneering an organisation called Equity within the university that will help Black & Minority … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – Hugos, SF, Cricket, REWS & Aretha
Today’s show was centred around a tribute to Aretha Franklin. I played a lot of her music, and I’m sure you are familiar with much of it. I did run through the list of Hugo winners, because with several of … Continue reading
Yesterday on Ujima – Films, Muslim Women & Hugos
I ended up doing a bonus show yesterday. As I had to go into Bristol for the TV appearance, and I have nothing else urgent on that day, I figured I might as well spend some time in the studio. … Continue reading
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Women’s Outlook Has a Podcast
With the Listen Again system having problems, I needed to find a new way to share the Women’s Outlook show with you. Fortunately there was a recording of the August 1st show, so I asked the station managemnt for permission … Continue reading
Heather Child Interview
The interview that I did with Heather Child back in July is no longer available on the Ujima Listen Again system, so I have posted it to Salon Futura. In it Heather and I talk about her debut novel, Everything … Continue reading
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Today on Ujima – Slightly Delayed
Today’s show on Ujima was a bit frantic as we were doing some adventurous tech things. We had Nik Jovčić-Sas playing violin live in the studio, and an amazing lady firefighter on the phone. We then went on to talk … Continue reading
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Today on Ujima – Birthday, SF, Basketball, Nudity & Sex Work
Today was Ujima’s 10th birthday, and I was lucky enough to be presenting the first live show of the day. Thankfully I had a line-up that lived up to the occasion. My first guest was Heather Child, a new addition … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – Trans, Music, Suffragettes & Coercive Control
Today’s show started with a first for me, a live phone-in. Ben has only done one before so he did very well getting it sorted eventually. I’m very glad he did because I had a great chat with Kate O’Donnell … Continue reading
Yesterday on Ujima – Sculpture, Gender Stereotypes & Dirty Computer
Yesterday’s show was a bit thrown together due to my being in Oxford the night before, but I think I managed to make it work. That’s thanks in part to two great guests, and in part to the inimitable Janelle … Continue reading
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Yesterday on Ujima – Hate Crime, Jazz & LGBT in Africa
There were a whole pile of significant anniversaries to consider with last weeks’ show. I’m annoyed that I missed out on wishing 90th happy birthday to Maya Angelou. I did get in that it was the 50th anniversary of the … Continue reading
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My #IWD2018 Ujima Show
A day early for International Women’s Day, I devoted most of my show yesterday to feminist issues. However, I started out in Australia by welcoming film critic, Tara Judah, to talk about Sweet Country. Tara is from Melbourne originally, so … Continue reading
