A shocking Project Darwin update and a T20 series wrapped up, we've got all the hot topics from this week in women's cricket. We're very excited to be joined by Scotland's hero Megan McColl to chat about Scotland's qualification for their first World Cup and her crucial role. We will be back next week but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @…

Venezuelans go to the polls to vote for a president on 28 July 2024, in what will not be free and fair elections, this much is certain. Here on the Colombia Calling podcast, we understand the necessity and importance of informing our listeners further about what is taking place and is in the news from sister and neighbouring countries to Colombia, …

From the Lottie Cup Preview to England's first two T20s against Pakistan, we've got all our analysis this week. We will be back next week with another guest but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and out Twitter/X is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!…

On this week's episode we speak to Mario Pinzón in the studio and discuss his views on Colombia and Colombian politics from the perspective of a citizen living overseas in Canada. We discuss why Pinzón left Colombia (under duress), what it meant to leave his country behind and how he came to understand the value of being Colombian. Emily Hart repor…

Murder rates in Brazil have fallen under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but surveys show that people believe violence to have increased in the country. There is little trust in the police and judicial system, 64,2 million live in households with food insecurity, there have been more than 4 million cases of dengue in the first four months of 2…

What a week it's been! From the thrills of the World Cup Qualifiers to the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, there has been so much to keep our eyes on. England U19 & Southern Vipers batter Abi Norgrove also joins us this week to chat about her very exciting career so far. We will be back next week with another guest but in the meantime our Instagram & …

This week your host, Richard McColl moves over to the role of interviewee as friend and fellow immigrant to Colombia, Eric Tabone switches up responsibilities and fires questions at your friendly Briton. This is your chance to learn a little bit more about journalist, hotelier and writer Richard McColl. Tabone leaves no stone unturned as he delves …

We chat RHFT, World Cup Qualifiers and Souvenir Albums as we launch a competition. Head over to our social media to enter - good luck! We will be back next week with another guest but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and out Twitter/X is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!…

It has become clear that the kind of coverage we can now expect from the mainstream media regarding protests is one which serves to highlight protestors' violence, weaken support for the strike and delegitimise grassroots perspectives because, even when ordinary citizens are given a voice, they will unlikely openly criticise their government. This …

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we discuss the myriad of challenges facing a new government in Panama. Outgoing president Laurentino Cortizo is immensely unpopular and the victorious candidate in May's presidential elections will have to face up to growing public unrest due to corruption, the stuttering economy, climate change and its effects o…

The Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy 2024 is well underway and we're already eight games deep. There have been two centuries and a 5-fer but crucially, no rain (so far!) This week we've been joined by Western Storm's Katie Jones who was ever so patient when we forgot to record half the chat. We will be back next week with another guest but in the meanti…

Polly appeared on the Storylines Podcast this week to do a deep dive into project Darwin and looking at some of the key questions. We will be back this Friday with another guest but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and out Twitter/X is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!…

Medellin and Colombia are hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons, due to sexual exploitation of children by foreign visitors. In April, a US citizen was caught bringing two girls, ages 12 and 13, into the Hotel Gotham, in the exclusive sector of El Poblado in Medellin. There was all sorts of paraphernalia in this individual's room, to sugg…

Wow - what a week! Project Darwin and the season pending, where do we even start? We try to process everything that's happened this week - warning some head loss starts quite early on, it's been a long week. We're also joined by Lancashire Thunder's Daisy Mullan to preview the season. Enjoy the first week of fixtures and we will be back next week w…

On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we sit down and chat with Gary Murray, a former hotelier in Colombia and compare notes on the business. Murray's experiences, on the whole, have been incredibly negative, mine on the other hand have been positive and so we look at some of the socio cultural nuances to running a business in Colombia, hear som…

After our break, we're back! With the season coming up, there's lots to discuss from Thunder's new documentary to England's tour to New Zealand which has now wrapped up. As mentioned, we have a Women's Regional Cricket Album coming out, previewing the season and acting as a piece of memorabilia as the regional structure comes to an end. Ireland hav…

"Get the most from your time in Colombia by adjusting your expectations with regard to what you probably take for granted: Punctuality [never], Predictability [rarely], Promiscuity [frequently], and Passion [always]." And so it goes as we explore Colombia by way of Barry Max Wills' writing in his debut novel, a memoir entitled: "Better than Cocaine…

Speculation about a potential early election call in Belize has been dismissed by Prime Minister John Briceño. Тhе Рrіmе Міnіѕtеr’ѕ соmmеntѕ fоllоw thе Реорlе’ѕ Unіtеd Раrtу’ѕ (РUР) rесеnt vісtоrу іn munісіраl еlесtіоnѕ, in which thеу ѕесurеd а ѕіgnіfісаnt mајоrіtу over the United Democratic Party (UDP). Тhе РUР’ѕ ѕtrоng ѕhоwіng hаd lеd ѕоmе оbѕеrv…

Journalist Emily Hart sat with Frank Wynne, tracing his incredible career from the start of his linguistic journey (a breakup and a bookshop in Paris) to his award-winning translation of writers across Latin America and the francophone world – particularly his work on cult Colombian author and ‘Enemy Number 1 of Macondo’ - Andrés Caicedo and his no…

We're off to Australia! Well...one of us it. Polly has booked her tickets to Australia to cover the 2025 Women's Ashes so if anyone wants to hire Polly over the Ashes, just get in contact. From New Zealand to Sri Lanka we've got a lot of cricket to chat about too. This week, Australian cricket journalist & broadcaster, Adam Collins joins us to chat…

Imagine starting your first business venture from a huge wooden treehouse, nestled on a wild island off the coast of the Colombian Pacific. Linsey Rankin left Australia to travel, arrived in Colombia in 2013. After working in tourism, education, and health, she set about creating a business model that would allow her to be creatively independent, e…

On The LatinNews Podcast we discuss the Environmental and Social History of Deforestation in the Amazon and the Latin American region. In a far-reaching episode, we take a look at the tenurial structure, technologies and political regimes in understanding rapid forest conversions, and the complex dynamics of forest resurgence now found throughout t…

From the chaotic Hundred draft to the WPL final there's been plenty going on in the world of Women's Cricket. England have started well in New Zealand and Scotland have announced a new T10 franchise competition. On the theme of the Hundred, we're joined by Welsh Fire assistant coach, Aimee Rees who gives us a great insight to Welsh Cricket. We are …

This week, Emily Hart is setting out into the Wild West of cryptocurrencies here in Colombia and beyond. Is cryptocurrency the future of finance in Latin America? Is it safe? Is it just another way for rich people to hide their wealth from the tax man? Or for criminals to launder income? Or could it be a way for people to take banking into their ow…

We have tons to discuss this week with Zimbabwe winning the African Games in a super over, counties applying for Project Darwin and the England squad for the U19 Tri-Series being announced. We're also joined by former Ireland international, Shauna Kavanagh to chat about her career and the development of Irish cricket. We are back next week but in t…

On this week's Colombia Calling podcast we speak to Sara Tufano, the author of "Colombia: unaherida que no cierra," (Planeta, 2023) and a former member of the Clandestine Colombian Communist Party. After surviving some periods in conflict in Colombia as a member of the FARC guerrillas, she now dedicates her life to academia. Sara Tufano is a sociol…

The combination of a weak state and strong criminal forces has led to a near-doubling of homicides each year in Ecuador since 2020 and the nation's murder rate for 2023 was around 40 per 100,000 people, making it the highest in Ecuador's history and therefore one of the most violent in Latin America. In this episode of The LatinNews Podcast, we ask…

The Hundred draft is on its way and we already know who is staying where. While Ellyse Perry was smashing car windows, an all female grounds team made history in football with many of the team coming from cricket clubs. This week we are joined by Scotland U19 & Sunrisers player, Molly Barbour Smith to speak all about her route into cricket, highs w…

This week, Emily Hart speaks to Andrea González Duarte about Mi Barrio, Mi Sueño - the women’s empowerment project she founded in La Honda, a neighbourhood in the hills of Medellín. Andrea was born here in Colombia, then was adopted and grew up in the Netherlands, moving back here with a degree in social work many years later. The project began wit…

The WPL is well underway and there's tons to chat about. We take a trip down memory lane this week, digging into the archive for some old chats with Kathryn Bryce who's playing in the WPL and Catherine Dalton who's coaching in the PSL. We are back next week but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and out Twitter/X is @00…

On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, Ohio native and now resident of Medellin, Zach Meese, joins us to discuss Nearshoring in his adopted homeland. Now, I am pretty unfamiliar with Nearshoring, so Meese walks me through it and why the city of Medellin, Colombia is the ideal place for a business of this type. Nearshoring is defined as a close re…

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we ask Dr Jacqueline Jimenez Polanco, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, to what can we attribute the success of the anti-corruption and anti-impunity politics in the Dominican Republic? With elections on the horizon for May 2024, will the victor co…

From Annabel Sutherland's double century to Charli Knott signing for the Vipers, we take a look back at a week in the world of women's cricket. Joined by Luke Pomfret - Senior Regional Talent Manager - we find out about life at one of the eight regions and how that may all change next year. We are back next week but in the meantime our Instagram & …

Adventurer Daniel Eggington is back! After completing the crossing of the Darien jungle along the Pacific side from Colombia to Panama in 2022, Eggington has decided to return to Colombia to embark on a three-month expedition along the Rio Negro all the way to Manaus in Brazil. The Rio Negro is over 1400 miles long with its widest point in Brazil a…

There are many famous festivals and events this week but we're celebrating a Test match in Perth! We're joined by Australian cricket journalist and podcaster, Laura Jolly who gives us the scoop (pun intended) on Australian Women's Cricket and how they have been so successful. We are back next week but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @noug…

On this week's Colombia Calling podcast we hear about British photographer Natasha Johl's work in photographing the Arahuacas in Colombia's Sierra Nevada. Descendents of the Tairona, an ancient South American civilization, indigenous group, the Arhuacos, reside in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The Arhuaco have developed an understanding of the …