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Sacred Money

Taqwa Sadiq

Taqwa believes that storytelling has the power to bridge people, languages and cultures. Her work across audio, film, and art is often inspired by her background in Middle Eastern studies. Her Charles Parker Prize winning piece, ‘Breathing Lyrical’ was broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, and she previously hosted the Made at UCL podcast.

In a cost-of-living crisis, Taqwa’s podcast asks whether money can be sacred, what it really means to purify your wealth, and whether Zakat - a compulsory charity given by Muslims around the world - can change how all of us think about money and our communities.

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Black Gold

George Powell

George knew he wanted to be a radio producer from the age of 15 and is fascinated by the relationships we hold with space and place. Growing up on the Wirral peninsular, he remembers being mesmerised by the scale of Stanlow Oil Refinery – the UK’s second largest to date.

More recently and whilst exploring Stanlow’s history for its centenary in 2024, he was left with more questions than answers. Black Gold aims to understand the impact of the Stanlow on the surrounding community as well as its role in the UK’s industrial landscape.

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Hometown Boring?

Anouska Lewis

Anouska is passionate about how our shared past helps us to connect with others and our environments. She aims to foster empathy in everything she creates. At university, she made friends with proud Bristolians, Mancunians, and Londoners, but always felt slightly embarrassed to have grown up in Milton Keynes. Her hometown was seen as a joke rather than a cultural hub, and for a wannabe-historian, it left her deflated.

Hometown Boring? explores the untold history and contributions of disregarded towns and cities across the UK, hoping to turn those feelings of deflation into celebration.

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Now Here

May Robson

May grew up reading about revolutions in dusty history books where change is made by “great men”, but soon realised she should have been looking closer to home. Today, her work as a producer and journalist is fuelled by the people she has met, whose daily dreams and refusals make us feel that another world is possible.

Now Here takes you on a journey from the Scottish Highlands to the Southern borders of England, hearing from communities who are making ‘small revolutions’ in how we live, play, work and eat today.

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Seun's Talking Drum: British AND West African

Seun Matiluko

Seun Matiluko is a journalist and researcher who is interested in uplifting marginalized voices. Her work has examined fashion, politics, pop culture, race and 20th century history in Britain and across the world. In 2021, Seun was shortlisted for a British Journalism Award in the Social Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion category. Her academic background is in law and history and she is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School. As a twenty-something British-Nigerian, Seun has long been fascinated by hyphenated identities and the lives and legacies of people of African descent in Britain.

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