Some more online radio: this is an online audio archive I developed for FLAC (the Free Legal Advice Centres).
It features an introductory podcast and clips from interviews with a series of legal luminaries involved in FLAC’s first 40 years.
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Radio documentary on immigrant election candidates
In Immigration & asylum, Ireland on December 4, 2009 at 12:26 pmOnline now: my short radio documentary on this year’s local elections, for The Curious Ear on Radio One. The blurb:
In May 2009, Colin Murphy hit the roads of Ireland on the campaign trail with some of the 40 immigrants who ran in the local elections. In Dublin, Limerick, Monaghan and Donegal, he talked to candidates and the people they were canvassing about the issues and the practicalities of local politics in Ireland. From Patrick Maphoso’s activist independent politics on Dublin’s northside to Anna Rooney’s staunch support for the Government in Clones, this project charts the diversity of experience and opinion amongst an emerging group of politicians. Ultimately, the experience was a sobering one for many of those. “It will take a long time for people to get used to immigrants participating in the elections,” said Maphoso, “but the first generation have to pave the way.” In Letterkenny, Michael Abiola Phillips is also philosophical: “I won’t be disappointed even if I don’t get in this time around,” he said. “It means I have to work harder.”
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From Morocco: Thanks to Smile
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum, Travel on July 31, 2008 at 11:03 amA shorter version of this was broadcast on RTE Radio One’s World Report on July 26
The charity’s office was clean and bare, with two pcs humming on office desks, and some generic charts on the wall. The administrator was apologetic. The director had had to leave for an urgent meeting in the capital, and wasn’t there to meet me. He didn’t know when he’d be back.
I’ve travelled 12 hours across Morocco to meet him, I said. He was sorry, the administrator said. But there was nothing he could do.
