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MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC
John McCarthy is joined by Mojisola Adebayo, theatre performer, writer and director who is currently performing in a play based partly on the biography of Ellen Craft, a 19th century African-American slave woman who escaped to freedom by disguising herself as a white man.

Moj’s character finds work as a sailor on a whaling ship bound for the Southern Seas. Eventually the ship arrives in Antarctic waters for the gruesome task of whaling, and Moj becomes the first Black woman to step foot Antarctica.

KASHMIR
The Mughals called Kashmir ‘Paradise on Earth’. Jammu and Kashmir, which incorporates Ladakh is the northern-most state of India, lying mostly in the Himalayan mountains. The region is a disputed territory and currently controlled by India, Pakistan and China. It shares a border with Himachal Pradesh to the south, Pakistan to the west and People's Republic of China to the north and the east.

Navnita Chadha Behera, Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi is the author of State, Identity and Violence: Jamma, Kashmir and Ladakh.

Professor Chadha Behera talks about her new book Demystifying Kashmir in which she argues that only by recognizing the multifaceted nature of the place rather than seeing it as a political battle of state-making between India and Pakistan can the long standing problems begin to be resolved.