Best Lesser Poet Podcasts (2024)

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E75 - Exploring the Drawing Together project (pt1) 43:34

9d ago43:34

43:34

In this episode, Alison Phipps interviews Ravi Kohli, Sharon McGregor and Christine about the Drawing Together project, a project that looked at the relational wellbeing in the lives of young refugees in Scotland, Finland and Norway. For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers and links to the project, please visit: bit.ly/thesou…

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E74 - Poetry by the keynote poets of the Spring School 2024 17:01

15d ago17:01

17:01

This episode is a collection of 4 poems, written by the 4 keynote listeners Erdem Avşar, Adrianne Kalfopoulou, Herbert Cea and Heidi Perez-Cordero, who each summarised a day of the UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024, a large conference which takes place every year in May in Glasgow. For more information about the event, please…

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E73 - Molly Gilmour on cross-cultural research collaboration in Lebanon 45:19

1M ago45:19

45:19

This episode is a recording of a session entitled 'Exploring creative, cross-cultural research collaborations: A case study of an MSF run thalassemia clinic in Lebanon', which was meant to take place at the UNESCO RIELA Spring School 2023, but which was cancelled because of the situation in Lebanon at the time. Dr Molly Gilmour has now kindly share…

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E72 - "The Language of the Law" with Pinar Aksu 24:51

2M ago24:51

24:51

In this episode, UNESCO RIELA PhD researcher Pinar Aksu discusses her workshop at the RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 (Word Springs). Pinar's PhD research looks at the connection between art and law in the context of migration and how arts practices can be part of creating social change, as well as access to justice within the imm…

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E71 - Michael Quinn: The Land Owns Us 22:14

3M ago22:14

22:14

This episode was recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024 (Word Springs). In it, Michael Quinn argues for the inclusion of stories in teaching, to add a philosophical dimension to traditional fact-based teaching methods. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration…

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E70 - Gaelic and the refugee experience 20:14

3M ago20:14

20:14

This episode was recorded at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2024. In it, Gillebrìde Mac'IlleMhaoil / Gilbert MacMillan shares stories from South Uist and surrounding islands, as well as some Gaelic songs. For the full show notes, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationBy UNESCO RIELA

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Rhonda Byrne & Kelly Noonan Gores: Their top secrets for birthing global bestsellers 1:16:24

4M ago1:16:24

1:16:24

The magical duo of Rhonda Byrne & Kelly Noonan Gores are rounding out a bucket list week here at the Beautiful Writers Podcast. After years of dreaming, writing, podcasting, and, more recently, recording my latest book, the audiobook for Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams & Messy Manuscripts—with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors…

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E69 - Reimagining the Refugee Condition 34:55

4M ago34:55

34:55

Margot Leys Johnston interviews Dr Hyab Yohannes from the UNESCO RILA team about his research into the 'refugee condition'. For the full show notes, including short biographies, please visit bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationBy UNESCO RIELA

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E68 - Who Are We Now? An exploration of modern Highland identity 56:45

6M ago56:45

56:45

This episode is a rerecording of a session we hosted at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2023, hosted by By Nadine Malcolm (Due North Studio), Lee McNeish (University of Edinburgh) and Cáit O'Neill McCullagh (independent artist). "Who Are We Now?" explores the destruction, and subsequent emergence, of culture in the northern H…

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E67 - Власними словами | In Our Own Words: Multilingual Translation Workshops 35:34

7M ago35:34

35:34

In this episode, James Rann and Katherine Mackinnon from the University of Glasgow introduce their project 'Власними словами | In Our Own Words', which is a project that brings Ukrainians in Glasgow together with other Glaswegians and uses creative writing and multilingual translation to build confidence, community and mutual understanding. For mor…

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Solo Pod: My published books woke me up at 3 am with intel they wanted us to know . . . 1:04:12

8M ago1:04:12

1:04:12

What happens when your dream comes true after years of work? What happens when that dream twists into what feels like a career-killing nightmare? In this episode, I'm telling the truth like never before—solo, my first in nine years—and it's the most real, vulnerable, and perhaps ill-advised show I've ever done. Catch it quick before my Vulnerabilit…

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E66 - Sawsan Abdelghany on ESOL and the New Scots Refugee Strategy 39:29

8M ago39:29

39:29

This is the second of a two part conversation between Dr Dan Fisher, and researchers Sawsan Abdelghany, and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL in the asylum system. In this episode, Dan and Adam are interviewing Sawsan.Sawsan Abdelghany is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Glasgow, and a heritage language tutor. She graduated from t…

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E65 - Adam Williamson on interpretation in the UK asylum system 38:42

9M ago38:42

38:42

This is the first of a two part episode in which Dr Dan Fisher talks with Sawsan Abdelghany and Adam Williamson on their work on ESOL interpretation in asylum appeals. In this part, Sawsan and Dan are interviewing Adam.Adam Williamson is a freelance translator and interpreter based in Paris, where he works with English, Spanish and French. He began…

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E64 - Afamba Apota: a radio play about migration 32:44

9M ago32:44

32:44

Afamba apota is a Zimbabwean proverb recited to remind ourselves of the unpredictability of going on a journey. This radio play is a playful look at the important matter of migration. Join self-proclaimed master documentary maker Paul Lamont as he enters the migration corridor and meets the inhabitants.Created by members of the Mideq team, a full l…

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E63 - Mukuka Kasonde and Brice Catherin's storytelling project in Zambia 48:53

10M ago48:53

48:53

In this episode we hear from Mukuka Kasonde and Brice Catherin about their project Our Stories: a series of storytelling workshops in Zambia to create children's literature with a local slant. They are interviewed by Olivia Ndoti. For the full show notes including biographies, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.…

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E62 - Narjes Hashemi on Afghan refugees in Canada 19:40

11M ago19:40

19:40

In this episode, Narjes Hashemi is interviewing two members of the Afghan community in Canada about their work to preserve Afghan cultural heritage. For the full show notes, please visit:https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationBy UNESCO RIELA

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E61 - The Strengths Approach in Practice 1:00:47

11M ago1:00:47

1:00:47

Listen to Esa Aldegheri interview Avril Bellinger and Deirdre Ford about their book 'The Strengths Approach in Practice: How It Changes Lives'. An incredibly uplifting conversation, just what we need in these challenging times. Can you hear the creaking chair?Avril Bellinger, Honorary Associate Professor in Social Work, University of Plymouth UK, i…

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E60 - Third Culture Dialoguing 29:42

12M ago29:42

29:42

At the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, which took place in May 2023, Scotland-based curator Dr Deirdre MacKenna and psychologist Dr Laura Cariola hosted an online panel discussion, introducing their approaches to working with culturally plural mindsets. Through relational and interdisciplinary frameworks, these researchers have …

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E59 - Annie's Utopia: Weaving Dreams and Creating Change in New Lanark 12:25

1y ago12:25

12:25

On 14 October 2023, the UNESCO RILA team participated in the Fairies and Folktales event, held at New Lanark UNESCO World Heritage Site during the October week. Hope Wang, PhD candidate with the UNESCO RILA team, wrote a story for the event. Listen to her story and ask yourself: what is your utopia?Want to come and see New Lanark for yourself? Why …

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E58 - The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives 51:03

1y ago51:03

51:03

TW from around 41:30: rape and traumaIn this episode we look at the Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, which was published in February 2023. It is a conversation between one of the editors (Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi) and four chapter authors (Himadri Chatterjee, Agnes Woolley, Sydney Van To and Asha Varadharajan). Topics that get covered are t…

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E57 - Poetry by the keynote poets of the Spring School 2023 12:46

1y ago12:46

12:46

At the UNESCO RILA Spring School 2023: The Arts of Integrating, held in May 2023, 4 keynote poets captured the event in a poem. They are Marzanna Antoniak, Chantelle Warner, Anita Govan and S'phongo. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationBy UNESCO RIELA

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Dr. Jody Carrington: Self-Pub Superstars, Part 2 54:56

1y ago54:56

54:56

I can't with this soulmate client. I'm pressed for words to share how much I love this woman, author, and communicator. I promise you've never met anyone like Dr. Jody Carrington. I call her Canada's Brené Brown (mixed with some Jerry Seinfeld), so that's close. But, well. Just see for yourself. When I met Jody at one of my Carmel retreats at the s…

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Hal Elrod: Self-Pub Superstars, Part 1 of 2 41:47

1y ago41:47

41:47

Ever feel like you need a miracle to realize your big dreams? Let me introduce you to my miraculous client and friend Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle Morning: The Not So Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 AM. With over 3.5 million books sold, you'd think he'd have started with a top-five publisher. Instead, he launched a wor…

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Jenny Lawson & Laura Belgray, TMI Queens: The Art of the Overshare 1:05:14

1y ago1:05:14

1:05:14

It's open books all the way with these two TMI queens and their no-holds-barred, hilarious ways. They're the perfect duo to break my 6-month hiatus from the show. What a hoot to be back with three-time New York Times best-selling memoirist Jenny Lawson (Broken, Furiously Happy, and Let's Pretend This Never Happened) and her blogtastic comedic twin,…

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E56 - Visiting Mi'kma'ki 22:48

1y ago22:48

22:48

In this episode, as part of the Sites Unseen project, Sadie Ryan and Brittnee Leysen from the UNESCO RILA team travelled to Mi’kma’ki, the homeland of the indigenous Mi'kmaw people. Mi'kma'ki spans a big geographical area in Eastern Canada, including the area that's also known as Nova Scotia, meaning 'new Scotland'. The Mi'kmaw have been living in …

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E55 - APF Fellow Bertony Louis sur la poésie, Haïti et sa vie a Glasgow 34:02

1+ y ago34:02

34:02

Dans cet épisode, poète et bénéficiare d'une bourse de la fondation Artist Protection Fund Bertony Louis parle avec Prof Charles Forsdick (Université de Liverpool) et Rachel Douglas (Université de Glasgow) de sa poésie, la situation actuelle en Haïti et sa nouvelle vie à Glasgow. Pour plus de détails, consultez la page des notes https://bit.ly/thes…

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E54 - Music fighting labour exploitation with Isabella Corvino 43:40

1+ y ago43:40

43:40

In this episode, recorded in May 2023 at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, Prof Isabella Corvino from the University of Perugia analyses the musical integration strategy of the Orchestra dei Braccianti. The orchestra brings together musicians, farmers and workers from all over the world, united by their working situation in th…

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E53 - The Sounds of Camas (Outdoor Centre on Mull) 26:19

1+ y ago26:19

26:19

This week's episode is a soundscape created by UNESCO RILA Affiliated Artist Erdem Avşar from recordings he made in the bay of Camas Tuath on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. The UNESCO RILA team and GRAMNet travel to Camas every year on a researcher development trip and this soundscape has captured the space and some of the activities that happened dur…

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E52 - Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage with Prof de Silva 17:49

1+ y ago17:49

17:49

In this episode, Dr Hyab Yohannes interviews Prof Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya about her latest edited volume "Sustaining Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage" and in particular her chapter "Safeguarding Afro-Sri Lankan Intangible Cultural Heritage". A conversation about music, language and the Indian Ocean slave trade.For the full show notes, pl…

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E51 - Learning to Belong: Reinterpreting culture through a migrant integration programme 14:22

1+ y ago14:22

14:22

Today’s episode is a recording of a presentation from our Spring School: The Arts of Integrating, which took place in May 2023. We will be hearing from Kirstin Sonne about her research on Maltese integration practices through the "I Belong" programme. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration…

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E50 - "ህረብረንታ ይስቱማ በልድያ እማ ይኮል ዐርድያ"? (The refugee condition: An existential question) 35:22

1+ y ago35:22

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ይና ፖድካስት (podcast) ገሪ ጋብድ ተላቅስቶ ተርሲቲ። እና ተለያኹ በኒል፡ ጋብ ብሊንድ ህያብ ዮሓንስ ባሰረንታ ሃብታት ዘረእዝጊዲ አሰኹ ቆል ወንቀረዲ አንትሮና ህንበቲ። እን ቆል ወንቀሪል፡ ባሰረንቲ UNESCO RILAትልድ ኣኻኹ ባሰረንታ ሃብታት ጋብዲ ጎልያዲ ኒሰናኽር ህረብርና ኣዋይንዲ ነበርዲት በርበሮ ደገመኩ። እን ቆል ወንቀራ እንግልዝድ ለወትሶ ሸፍሸፍሶ ህንበኩ። እና ዒን ሓብረሩኽ (website) ኒልኻ ኣረርሰኩ። https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationWe are making our podcast more multilingu…

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E49 - Voices for Change 51:27

1+ y ago51:27

51:27

This collaborative podcast episode was created by people with migration experience as part of a 2-day intensive Media Lab, run by Migrant Voice and the University of Glasgow. For the full show notes, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationBy UNESCO RIELA

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E48 - Quilting for manifesting anti-colonial futures with Lisa and Mindy 34:17

1+ y ago34:17

34:17

In this episode, we are talking to our colleagues from the School of Education Lisa Bradley and Mindy Ptolemey, about their project Quilting for manifesting anti-colonial futures. For the full shownotes, including the registration link to sign up for the project, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration.…

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E44 - The Raven's Nest post-recording discussion 25:47

2y ago25:47

25:47

This episode is the discussion that happened between Sarah Thomas, Nerea Bello, Piki Diamond and Erdem Avşar after we had finished recording the previous episode about Sarah's Book. Despite me waving my hands in the air, the conversation continued and it became such a nice discussion that we've decided to share it with you. Enjoy!…

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Mark Manson: The subtle art of movie making & selling millions of books 42:39

2y ago42:39

42:39

Three #1 New York Times bestsellers. Nearly twenty million books sold. One of the most popular self-development blogs in the world. What more could Mark Manson take on? As of this week, movie stardom. Suppose you're a fan of Mark'sThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (or his follow-up book, Everything's F*cked: A Book About Hope). In that case, I pr…

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Bonus - Christmas Message 0:51

2y ago0:51

0:51

A wee bonus message for you all. Full show notes, including the names of the speakers and the languages: https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegrationBy UNESCO RIELA

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How to Write a Book (& Actually Finish It!), a MarieTV Replay 40:33

2y ago40:33

40:33

Marie Forleo is back on the show! HER show, actually. Say what? In a rare move for each of us, this is a replay of my recent appearance on MarieTV while touring for my latest book, Beautiful Writers. Since Marie and I LOVE this episode and 80% of the population say they want to write a book, we're doubling up to help you beat those odds. You can al…

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E43 - Sarah Thomas' The Raven's Nest 47:28

2y ago47:28

47:28

In this 7th episode in the series The Sounds of Good Books, Piki Diamond, Erdem Avşar and Nerea Bello speak with author Sarah Thomas about her book The Raven's Nest, belonging, language learning and indigeneity. For the full show notes, including biographies of the speakers and a glossary of Piki's words in Te Reo Maori, please visit https://bit.ly…

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E42 - Free to Go with Esa Aldegheri 43:54

2y ago43:54

43:54

This time we have a travel book for you: Free to Go by Esa Aldegheri. Esa talks to Katherine Mackinnon and Hannah Rose Thomas about her journey and the writing of the book and ends with a short reading, to give you a sense of her writing style. Not to be missed! For the full show notes, including biographies, please visit https://bit.ly/thesoundsof…

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E41 - Let's talk about access to education for refugees with Arianne Maraj 33:15

2y ago33:15

33:15

In this episode we hear from another visiting academic, Arianne Maraj, about her research on access to education for refugees in Quebec. Joining the conversation are Eva Hanna and Sawsan Abdelghany, both doing research in similar areas. For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofintegration…

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E40 - Let's talk about theatre with Zoe Hogan 44:48

2y ago44:48

44:48

Welcome to the first episode of our new series The sounds of our affiliates. In this episode you will hear visiting scholar Zoe Hogan in conversation with Pinar Aksu, Catrin Evans and Effie Samara. All four have done work and research in theatre and are discussing philosophical, ethical and political aspects of their work. For their bios, please se…

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E39 - Immersive Soundscape: From Alba to Aotearoa 22:07

2y ago22:07

22:07

In this episode, Brittnee Leysen and Shanara Wallace take you on a journey from Alba (Scotland) to Aotearoa (New Zealand). Get comfortable, lean back, close your eyes and enjoy the journey!This soundscape was first played at the UNESCO RILA Spring School: The Arts of Integrating 2022.For the full show notes, please go to https://bit.ly/thesoundsofi…

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E38 Alison Phipps on the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (part 2) 44:36

2y ago44:36

44:36

This is part 2 of the Dr Dan Fisher and Dr Hyab Yohannes' interview with Professor Alison Phipps about her experiences as the UNESCO Chair of Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. The interview takes place in the context of the winding down of the second New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy (2018-2022) and its soon-to-be-born third …

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