Refugee Week Radio 2006

Refugee Week Radio 2006
Refugee Week Radio broadcast for the first time in June 2006. We broadcast from this website every afternoon and evening from Monday 19th until Sunday 25th June 2006. Click on the links below for details of the programmes.

If you have ideas for next year's Refugee Week Radio, please contact us as soon as possible.

Listening to the audio:
~ Items linked via the blue buttons are in Real Media (you will need Real Media software - if you don't have this on your computer, click here to
download it from the Real Media website).
~ Items linked via the orange buttons are in MP3 - you should be able to play them on any other player.

Monday 19th June

3pm	Opening programme for Refugee Week Radio, focusing on the Museum of Immigration and Diversity at 19 Princelet Street - John Kjorstad reports on the opening day of Refugee Week, plus a report on the visit from Hague School in May (listen).
4pm	Schools and youth programme: including interviews with young people from refugee backgrounds in South Camden Community School
5pm	Magazine programmes from community and refugee support organisations, including: - Mental health support (Jenni Regan) - Angolan Voice (Vânia Mendes) - Asissi House, Bradford (John Hebden)
7pm	*Focus on:* Support for refugees and asylum seekers: with guest Peggy Beckford from the Refugee Housing Asociation
8pm	*Celebrating Sanctuary* - a roundup of arts and music at Celebrating Sanctuary and Refugee Week launch events in London, Cardiff, Glasgow and around the country. Including an interview with BBC correspondent Rageh Omar by reporter Nkechi Ebite at Celebrating Sanctuary on the South Bank in London (listen).
9pm	*Literature Lounge*: Anjan Saha with guest micropixie

3pm	Schools and youth programmes including two programmes from Featherstone High School, Southall Guests include Susan Okereke from the 'Switched On' project in Preston Manor, Brent, talking about the youth radio drama 'Blast'
5pm	Magazine programmes from community and refugee support organisations, including: - Desi Radio and the Panjabi Centre - Southall Community Radio Eco Teams
6pm	*Talking Africa* on Refugee Week Radio. The weekly programme from Spectrum Radio
7pm	*Focus on:* Climate change, water usage, fair share of the world's resources and other issues on World Refugee Day, 20th June, with Cathy Aitchison and Brooke Summers. Including an interview with Swami Japananda (reporter Dr Chandrika Nath) and an excerpt from the speech given by Dr Vandana Shiva at the Mayor of London's State of London Debate, May 2006
8pm	Arts programmes, including: - Literature: interviews with Orange Prize shortlisted writers Sarah Waters and Olga Grushin (reporter - Sophie Glass) - 'Blast' radio drama by young people from the 'Switched On' project at Preston Manor City Learning Centre. Written and performed by the young people themselves, with the assistance of the National Youth Theatre, the drama tackles issues of guns and crime.
10pm	Music: *Rainbow Radio* World Music Show on Refugee Week Radio, with Nick Kofi Asamoah and Ewan Allinson. Including interviews with two of the musicians performing during Refugee Week - Netsayi and K'naan

3pm	Programmes from Lambeth College, with Chris Dodd, Oscar Ovalle and Sarah Bennetto. Including interviews with Sophie Wainwright, from ICAR, the Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees, interviewed by Sarah Bennetto (listen), and with Laura Wintour from CARA, the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
5pm	Magazine programme focusing on community and refugee support organisations, with Rosemary Laryea
7pm	*Focus on:* Education - with Teresa Birks, Course Coordinator Less Widely Taught Languages at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). Including reports on the Kurdish and Somali Supplementary School in Haringey, North London
8pm	Arts reports from around the country, plus music from Angola and around the world, with Vânia Mendes

3pm	Schools and youth programmes, with Mary East, including: - information about Children's Express - Aik Saath on Radio Underdog from Slough Young People's Centre
5pm	Magazine programmes from community and refugee support organisations, including: - Student Action for Refugees (STAR) - London Sustainability Exchange and Tower Hamlets recycling project with Muslim communities - the charity UnLtd and their RISE initiative for refugee social entrepreneurs
7pm	*Focus on:* - Women's health, with Davinder Chahal - including an interview with Noreen Howard, of Griot, on fibroids
8pm	Arts programmes including: - writers from the Just Write black women writers' group in Hammersmith, from the Wilde Network
10pm	Music: OuterGlobe - World music from DJ Debbie, including an interview with Palestinian jazz singer Reem Kelani

3pm	Schools and youth programmes including: - programmes by young people produced as part of the Radio for Change project (Global Link and Preston FM) - Alem's Story: Children's Express reporters interviewed a young asylum seeker, Alem. They also told our reporter John Kjorstad about how they felt when they learnt about her situation.
5pm	Magazine programmes and items from community and refugee support organisations, including: - Youth Unlimited from the Hammersmith & Fulham Volunteer Centre (listen) - interview with Debora Singer, Co-ordinator of the Refugee Women's Resource Project at Asylum Aid, including information on their recent research study and details of a new information leaflet for women seeking asylum (listen)
7pm	*Focus on:* - Support for refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants, including the Open Door project at the Here for Good church centre in Sydenham, South East London (listen)
8pm	Arts programme with Brooke Summers and Julie Hill, Women's Radio Group. Including an interview with Cathy Aitchison, Refugee Week Radio co-ordinator.
9pm	Kurdish programme from ELFM (East Leeds FM)

3pm	Schools and youth programmes, including: - Slam & Dunk - from Camden MCs DC and SC - Radio for Change - Muslim girls from a mosque in Lancaster talk about their identity (from Global Link)
5pm	Camden Unlocked - magazine programme from CC Radio in the heart of Camden
6pm	One City Many Voices - Lincoln Green. Focusing on change in the Lincoln Green area of Leeds - from ELFM (East Leeds FM)
7pm	*Focus on:* Refugees and the media - representation, jobs, schemes, support organisations, opportunities (Micol Carmignani + Jenny Tracey)
8pm	Arts programmes including: - Camden arts - Reviews and reports from Refugee Week arts events around the country

3pm	Youth and community programmes, with items from Camden and from around the country
4pm	Poetry and writing, with Nina
5pm	Magazine programmes from community and refugee support organisations, including: - Camden Unlocked - East London magazine (Rachel Salmon) - Refugee Week festivals, sports and events from around the country (Suzann Sime)
7pm	Arts programme, with Rosemary Laryea, including a report on the Barnet Refugee Week celebrations from Deniece Riley, plus some fantastic Ghanaian music
8pm	Community programme, with Brooke Summers, including an interview with Harbi Farah from Help Somalia Foundation
9pm	*Refugee Week Roundup* - closing programme from Refugee Week Radio, with highlights from programmes and events which took place across the airwaves and around the country during Refugee Week 2006.