Archive for the ‘Audio’ Category
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
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Our latest episode focuses on the war in Ukraine, with an interview with Robert Naiman. Previously Policy Director with Just Foreign Policy, he is the President of the Board of Truthout, the online progressive news outlet. An ...
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Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Today (13 February) is World Radio Day, and we have a special episode to celebrate. It will air on Flirt FM (Galway, Ireland) today, as well as other stations worldwide. You can download it from the links here.
As usual, our WRD2022 show includes input from pupils at Galway Educate Together ...
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Saturday, September 11th, 2021
On the twentieth anniversary of the terror attacks in the US, and 48 years since the CIA-sponsored coup in Chile, we bring a special issue of our show.
We open with UN News Headlines, followed by Christy Moore with his song about the Chilean songwriter Víctor Jara, who was tortured and ...
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Our latest episode includes a report from Team Ireland in Tokyo (thanks Heather!), and news features from UN Radio News.
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
For this episode, we invited some schoolmates of Tadhg and Noah to contribute to the show. The result is a joyous and sometimes anarchic celebration of childhood, as we round out a distinctly unusual school year. Noah continues to be fascinated by Pokemon, while Tadhg reflects on schooling during the ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2021
Our latest episode is now available to download from A-Infos Radio Project and the Internet Archive. It includes an interview with Matthew Hoh of the Center for International Policy. He discusses the announced withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan. With reports that significant numbers of US personnel will stay ...
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Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Our April episode is now available online. Stream it from the Flirt FM Mixcloud feed, or download it from the Internet Archive or the A-Infos Radio Project.
Our guest is Netfa Freeman of the Institute for Policy Studies and Pan-African Community Action. I spoke with him following the Derek Chauvin guilty ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2021
Our guest this month is Dr Josephine Coleman of Brunel University, London. She discusses her research on the production of local content in UK community radio - a timely topic given the impact of COVID-19.
We also have our regular correspondents, Tadhg and Noah, talking about the blockage of the Suez ...
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Saturday, February 13th, 2021
It's World Radio Day - an annual celebration of radio, established by UNESCO and the UN in 2011. 13th February was chosen because it's the day in 1946 - 75 years ago today - that the UN set up its Department of Public Information, and UN Radio.
Flirt FM - our ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
This month, I interview Fiona Dunne of ICTU about the ONE movement, which provides a grassroots approach to trade unions, integrated with other civil society groups, such as student unions. We discuss the organising model of trade unions, and some of their recent projects, including a campaign to secure workers ...
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