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The Chiswick Calendar

The Chiswick Calendar

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Editor of The Chiswick Calendar Bridget Osborne spent many years as a journalist at the BBC before setting up The Chiswick Calendar website - ChiswickCalendar.co.uk - in 2014. Having produced many interviews, from actors and entertainers on BBC Radio 4's Midweek programme to politicians and heads of state on BBC World News TV's HARDtalk, she's completely at home talking to interesting people about everything from their childhood recollections to their impact on the world stage.
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A home for all the untold travel stories. In The Rough Guide to Everywhere we chat to people from around the world with inspiring travel tales to tell, and get the odd dispatch from Rough Guides writers on the road. The series is hosted by Rough Guides editor Aimee White (Twitter: @aimeefw). Use #roughguidespod to spread the word on Twitter. As featured on the BBC.
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Burn Wild

BBC Radio 5 Live

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For more than a decade two mugshots of fugitive environmentalists have sat amongst airplane hijackers, bombers and murders on the FBI’s Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists list. One of the photos is of a tall, hipster looking engineer from Seattle. He’s wearing a red shirt, has a light shadowy beard. His name: Joseph Mahmoud Dibee. The other photo is of a young white woman with thick eyebrows, piercing brown eyes and long brown hair. Across her back is a large tattoo: a bird with its wings outst ...
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F-Rated Podcast

Holly Tarquini & Anu Anand

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Join us for intersectional feminist chat with remarkable women in film from director Amma Asante to multi-award winning composer Nainita Desai. Hosted by F-Rated founder, Holly Tarquini and BBC World Service presenter, journalist Anu Anand exploring all aspects of the film industry by talking to some of the brilliant women who shape the stories we see on screen.
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Chinese Chippy Girl

Chinese Chippy Girl

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Award winning podcast* 🥈. Talking about life as a British born Chinese (BBC)/British Asian. The struggles that I've had to deal with whilst growing up in my mum and dad's takeaway in the 1980s/1990s. My parents are immigrants from HK/China and moved to the UK when they were teenagers. I was brought up being Chinese at home and English when I was outside of home - it felt confusing at the time as I couldn't find a sense of belonging. But now I am much older, I am proud of my Chinese heritage ...
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2020 Visions

Resonance FM Podcasts

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2020 Visions is a six part series presented by Rys Farthing and K. Biswas charting Britain's future. Episode 1: The Political Future. Guests: Labour’s Jon Cruddas MP; human rights activist Peter Tatchell; ConservativeHome editor Jonathan Isaby, psephologist Professor John Curtice; Dr Madsen Pirie, Director of the free-market Adam Smith Institute; LibDem Voice editor Stephen Tall; David Babbs of campaign organisation 38 Degrees, and the New Statesman’s Laurie Penny. Episode 2: Poverty, inequa ...
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Lose yourself in a story of obsession, 40 years of night life and 4,000 years of human connection. In The Portal Martin Green, Wils Wilson, and David Greig have woven together a tale of love, music, drugs and deceit. Two obsessive recordists, and lovers torn apart by circumstance; Etteridge and Angela left us the most incredible collection of 20th century documentation ever made. From 1947 to 1988 they never met. They recorded any and every aspect of London nightlife, from war-time dance-hal ...
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Chinese Chippy Girl is back with another episode. This time she brings back another fellow BBC (British Born Chinese) Sam Wong aka Lil' Wong Bakes and talk about Sam's absolutely delicious Sando Pandos. Georgie and Sam also talk about their top 5 dim sum dishes and speaking lak lak kak kak Cantonese. Give the show a listen. Share it on your socials…
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I chat with David Jay Paw who is a food and restaurant writer/editor. We talk mostly on food. Heading straight in to his role at Resy and collaborating with some amazing people such as Amanda Nguyen and Susie Bubble who have written articles to share their stories on food and restaurant. Speaking of restaurants, we have a conversation on Somsaa and…
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In episode 6, we spoke to Amma Asante about growing up in racist London with her Ghanaian parents; being on Grange Hill as a child actor; going to secretarial college where she wrote her first script to get her typing speed up; and her trip to LA where she had a meeting with execs at a big studio. In this episode, we spoke to her about her first di…
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Episode 10 of the F-Rated podcast features a conversation with Briony Hanson, the British Council's Director of Film. Holly Tarquini, the founder of the F Rating, hosts the episode solo since her colleague Anu Anand is away. Briony Hanson's impressive background includes directing the Script Factory Training Organisation, heading Tyneside Cinema an…
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Multi-award winning film editor, Úna Ní Dhonghaíle ACE, BFE is best known for her work on the Oscar winning film 'Belfast', Bafta winning series 'The Crown' Series 1 and 2 and 'Three Girls', 'Stan and Ollie', 'Wallander', 'The Missing' Series 1, 'Dr Who', Roddy Doyle's 'Rosie', amongst many others. She has worked on the leading lights of British dr…
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Philippa Lowthorpe is a three times Bafta winning TV and Film Director. She became the first woman to win a Bafta for Best Director at the Bafta Television Awards in 2013. She was awarded her second directing BAFTA in 2018 for Three Girls, the highly acclaimed and multi award-winning TV Series which won 5 Baftas in total. She was lead director of t…
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RTS award winning composer Nainita Desai is a World Soundtrack Awards, Ivor Novello, BIFA and Cinema Eye Honors nominee; a Bafta Breakthrough Brit, and the IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the Year. Amongst various Bafta, Oscar and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita's recent projects include Oscar 2020 nominated and Bafta & Cannes winning feature do…
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Amma Asante MBE is a multi-award winning writer and director who won a BAFTA for her first film, A Way of Life (2004). This made Amma the first Black director to win a BAFTA Film Award for writing and directing a feature film. The film went on to garner 17 additional awards worldwide, including FIPRESCI, and Grand Jury prizes. Her follow up movie, …
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Gaby Chiappe is an experienced TV writer. She has written extensively for long-running series such as Family Affairs, Doctors, EastEnders, Casualty, Survivors and many more. She also wrote for the series Lark Rise to Candleford, Shetland, Vera and created and wrote (with Alexander Perrin) the series The Level for ITV and more recently The Beast Mus…
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Weaving the world around her into intricate stories, Sarah’s many short films have screened internationally and won major awards. Her BAFTA-nominated directorial debut, Brick Lane, earned her The Alfred Dunhill Talent Award at the London Film Festival. Sarah went on to direct, Suffragette, featuring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Stree…
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Helen O’Hara has been working as a film journalist for over fifteen years, after qualifying as a barrister and immediately getting bored. She started her film writing career on the staff of Empire, the world’s biggest film magazine, and remains their editor-at-large and co-host of the Empire podcast, where she can be found weekly singing the praise…
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Released on International Women's Day 2023 - of course and featuring Buffy the dog (of course she's called Buffy!). Holly Tarquini began her career in television, spending over a decade in London as a Producer/Director of documentaries and unscripted programmes and series. After setting up and running a guest-house for yoga students in India, she m…
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We hear from producer, Rebecca O’Brien who has been an independent film producer for thirty-five years. Prior to becoming a producer she worked her way up through the industry in various production roles including location manager on MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) and production manager on some early Channel 4 films. Rebecca has produced fourteen f…
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An update on Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, who on November 1st 2022 was sentenced. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Collective, composed performed and produced by Neil Leiter & Margaret Hermant; recorded, mixed and produced b…
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The mother of Josephine Sunshine Overaker - the remaining fugitive environmentalist - tells her story. And a change of plea from Joseph Dibee means he’s able to talk in a way he hasn’t before, including about a night he said he'd never speak of. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checki…
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On this episode, I speak with Ray Roberts who is a Filipino-British Filmmaker & Photographer, based in East London. We get personal on this episode as Ray shares his stories of his upbringing on how he suffered from racism at school. We also lighten up the mood as he tells us his upcoming projects that he is working on - all of which amplifies ESEA…
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Jane Quimby was one of the FBI agents on Operation Backfire, the investigation that busted the Earth Liberation Front and so-called Family. One of those she put behind bars was Chelsea Gerlach – sentenced to nine years and now living with the weight of that word ‘terrorist’. Now, they’re ready to talk in a way they couldn’t before. CREDITSPresenter…
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As they visit the site of an ELF arson twenty-five years ago, Leah and Georgia meet inhabitants of a town that two years ago was lost to forest fire. The Earth Liberation Front had a clear line they wouldn’t cross: they would never cause any physical harm. And they never did. As climate change bears down they ask - where is the line now? A time whe…
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During a visit to Eugene, Oregon - a city that brought key people and ideas in this story together - Leah and Georgia find something unexpected. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Collective, com…
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In this week’s podcast, we sit down with the inimitable & multi-award winning musician and composer Nitin Sawhney. His bodies of work spans every corner of the artist fields be it scores for film & television, the stage, video games as well as his own discography of albums like ‘Beyond Skin’ which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary with a spe…
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In 2005 Joe Dibee fled America – leaving everything behind. Speaking in Summer 2021, as he awaits what he hopes will be a trial date, Joe tells Leah and Georgia about life out of reach of the FBI, and his eventual capture in Cuba. As they faced - or face - years behind bars, Leah Sottile explores what that word, terrorist, meant for the environment…
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More than fifteen years ago a woman, authorities call an eco-terrorist, slipped through the fingers of the FBI and vanished. Leah Sottile meets the agent she evaded, who’s made it his mission to see her caught before he retires. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusi…
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I know I always say on all my shows 'this is a very special episode'. But this time, I REALLY mean it! It's special for a few reasons: * It was my first live show with an audience * People paid £14.06 for a ticket (thanks guys) * Proceeds were donated to London Chinese Community Centre and the event raised just over £2K. * Two amazing guests, John …
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For over a decade, Joseph Dibee’s mugshot stared out from the FBI’s Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists list. He’s charged with crimes in connection to an underground cell that was known as The Family, whose actions committed in the name of the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front would see them called terrorists. In 2005 the then Deputy …
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An underground group of radical environmentalists become a domestic terror priority. Then two go on the run. And this series goes in an unexpected direction. CREDITSPresenter: Leah SottileProducer: Georgia CattWritten by: Leah Sottile and Georgia CattFact Checking: Rob ByrneMusic and Sound Design: Phil ChannellMusic including theme music by Echo Co…
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For over a decade, a pair of mugshots have lived side by side on the FBI’s website, on its list of America’s Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists. The government says these fugitives were part of an eco-terrorist movement that in 2005 the then Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI called the number one domestic terrorism threat in America. And now one of…
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Hey!! I'm back with a new season. In this episode I speak to my fiancé eWan Smith as we talk about how we met, the adventures that we've had and we probably over share when we talk about the mini break up that we had a few years ago. I also asked him if he has yellow fever (spoiler alert, he doesn't) but it did boost a conversation on how yellow fe…
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This is a special episode to promote the latest Pixar animation of Turning Red - releasing on Disney+ from 11 March 2022. Wanna know more about Turning Red - give this a listen 🎧 and then watch the animated film 🍿 I was so excited to be given the opportunity to interview Domee Shi who is the Director and Lindsey Collins who is the Producer. A short…
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Talking about our pregnancy journey, food allergies and a totally off the cuff conversation on Backstreet Boys. Thank you Steph for coming on the show! You can find her on Insta The_gp_mum and please check out the podcast that she co-hosts themedicmumpodcast. You know where I am... Chinese Chippy Girl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor…
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🧧Happy Lunar New Year to everyone. In this episode I speak to Wai Kuen from Pak Mei Lo Hau Martial Arts Association. I have been following these guys since I started podcasting and I've been so fascinated in lion dancing and the story of why it's used during Chinese celebrations. For people who know me, you will know that I have a billion questions…
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I've gone solo on this one. In this episode, I talk about some achievements which was made this year including the story 'Brian Wong, who was never, ever wrong' - a short story that was written by David Walliams which will be removed from future prints. I also relive one of my highlights of the year which was attending BESEAN ON STAGE as part of ES…
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Hello! In this episode, we speak with Siu Kee. A BBC (British born Chinese) who grew up in Glasgow/Barnsley. Also a fellow takeaway kid! I feel he ticks all the boxes for Asian golden child. Academic, a lawyer and the only son in his family. Sounds good on paper right? But tune in to this episode as we hear from Siu Kee on his identity issues and s…
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I have the pleasure of speaking with Kara Bos who shares her story on being a Korean American Adoptee. A very touching story that she shares about her journey of finding out more on her Korean heritage and her search on finding her birth mother. Please follow Kara on instagram and Facebook to follow her journey. You can also follow me on Instagram.…
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I’m absolutely delighted to collaborate with Chinatown London for my latest episode where I talk to Lucy, Managing Director of See Woo Group and Emily who runs Cuppacha and Taiyakiya. Lucy and Emily spoke about their journey of running a business in the heart of London. It was so nice to chat with them and share our experiences of what Chinatown Lo…
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Today (08th August) marks my one year 'podiversary' of launching my shows and what a year it's been! So to celebrate, I invite my friend Shu (aka Dejashu) to come on the show to take over Chinese Chippy Girl and I'm in the hot seat! We talk about some of my highlights and low lights of podcasting. Let me know what you think of this show and you can…
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I'm back from my break of podcasting and my first guest of series 2 is Maisie Chan. Maisie is a BBC (British born Chinese) childrens author. She has recently launched 2 books, Danny Chung does not do maths (or Danny Chung sums it up in the US) and Tiger Warrior. Also, Amy wants a pet which is my daughter's favourite book. Maisie also runs Bubble Te…
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In this episode, the legendary takeaway owner from Jade Park joins us for this episode. Jade (or should I say James) went from working in IT to running his own takeaway. He's also the Co-Founder of 'Asians in the UK' on Clubhouse every Monday at 8pm. A room where they have built a community on ESEA people and allies to come together and talk about …
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I cannot believe that I am typing this! Katie Leung who I have been idolising for years comes on the show ❤️. Katie shares her experiences of the hate she received when she played the iconic role of Cho Chang in Harry Potter. We also talk about her role as Mei in One Child and a teaser with her next role which she is currently filming. Also do your…
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We'd love your feedback, fill out the survey here Support The Portal here or via Patreon BONUS EPISODE: Martin Green explores how you make a fictional podcast in a pandemic. Featuring chats with director Wils Wilson, and actors Alison Peebles & Anna Russell-Martin. This episode contains some strong language. *SPOILER WARNING* There's a few spoilers…
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I had the pleasure of speaking to Beverley who is the Centre Manager of London Chinese Community Centre (LCCC). A vital service for the community, especially for the elderly where the service can help with translations and accompanying them to appointments. So many Chinese people would be lost without the centre and they need to raise at least £70k…
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