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ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

Mar 06 2025 70 mins

What's the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World. Sign up to the ACFM newsletter: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters Help us build people

Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World? w/ Edna Bonhomme

Mar 05 2025 60 mins

Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. From the plantation to the infirmary and from the leper colony to the stay at home order, contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined. In The History of the World in 6 Plagues, Edna Bonhomme investigates how fear, power, race science and colonial violence have shaped six o

54: Forget the boycott, gimme that brand deal

Mar 02 2025 53 mins

Why did Stormzy delete his pro-Palestine posts just before unveiling a Happy Meal tie-in with McDonald's? Ash asks Moya if big artists are all just businesses in the end. Plus: how to deal with a delusional friend. Send us your dilemmas: [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn

Mar 02 2025 111 mins

In 1996 Samuel Huntington published ‘The Clash of Civilizations’. At the time its hypothesis was counter-intuitive. Despite the supremacy of the United States after the Cold War, the ascent of globalisation would not lead to the end of history, but a return to distinctive and competing civilisations. Rather than homogeneity we would see a growing emphasis on difference, rather

Novara FM: The Decades Long Plan that Made Trump Possible w/ David Adler

Feb 26 2025 56 mins

Read any of the mainstream press at the moment and you'll hear the same thing: major things are happening in America. But what if this sudden shift was an illusion? David Adler is Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International, a group that brings together forces from across the progressive left. He told Richard Hames that far from being radical change, Trumpism is the

53: Getting 'the ick'

Feb 23 2025 47 mins

When did we all start 'getting the ick'? And why does it mainly seem to be women who get it? Ash and Moya unpack the gender politics behind the 'ick-course'. Plus: when is the right time to have the big money chat with your partner? Send us your dilemmas: [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

Downstream: Europe's Political Elite Are Completely Finished w/ Philip Pilkington

Feb 23 2025 96 mins

For almost six centuries Europe has been at the centre of world affairs. While the days of Empire are long gone, over the last several decades the importance and comparative wealth of Europe has declined at an extraordinary pace. Indeed for many countries, from Britain to Germany and Greece, living standards have stagnated or even declined. Now, in what seem like the final months

Novara FM: The Green Party vs Something New w/ James Schneider and Zack Polanski

Feb 20 2025 93 mins

This part two of our discussion about a new left party. You can listen to part 1 here: https://novaramedia.com/2025/01/30/time-for-a-new-left-party/ James Schneider, Jeremy Corbyn’s former Director of Comms, argues for a new party. But who would it speak to? Would it be democratic and in what ways? And what could it actually achieve in the volatile terrain of British Politics?

52: Happy birthday IIS! Now ask us anything...

Feb 16 2025 66 mins

One whole year of If I Speak! Moya and Ash celebrate with an #AMA, tackling your questions on career growth, love songs, role models, Irish politics and whether they’re friends in real life. Plus: listener feedback on last week’s “return of the slur”. Send us your dilemmas: [email protected] Music by Matt Huxley.

Novara FM: Two Years to See a Specialist, Two Weeks to Die: Against Assisted Death w/ Ellen Clifford

Feb 12 2025 95 mins

Your death should be your own, as much as possible. That’s one of the principles behind the Assisted Dying Bill. It lets adults with less than 6 months to live end their lives. But disability campaigners fear that people who don't want to die might be pressured to let themselves be killed. Ellen Clifford is the author of The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the M