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Bekkie is a rapper and fashion blogger from Albania. In this programme, we listen to Incongruent Hiphoppa, Bekkie’s latest album, and talk about everything from the transformation of spiritual identity to growing up LGBTQ+ in Albania with only KRS-One and Tupac to guide you.

With thanks to Refugee Radio’s intrepid volunteer, Henry Tydeman.

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Dina and Vlada talk about their lives in Ukraine, the impact of the Russian invasion and finding sanctuary in Brighton, UK.

We have wonderful music from Dina’s brilliant new EP, “Songs for Ukraine” which is available now to help raise money for humanitarian aid in Ukraine. With special guest, Phil Minns of Best Foot Music who recorded the EP, live in the studio to tell us more.

https://bestfootmusic.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-ukraine

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Bashir is raising funds for a well in his home village near the wartorn region of Darfur. Please support his campaign by purchasing his music: https://bestfootmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bashir-al-gamar

You can also listen to a recording of a Lorestani piece by Kourosh on the Best Foot Music website: https://bestfootmusic.bandcamp.com/track/kourosh-kouchakpour-tar-medley

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Steve talks to the Kurdish musician Mansour Izadpanah about his life and work. Featuring a world exclusive premier of his new song, composed in exile and in lockdown with musicians across the world: Zayalay Awin, or “Love Echo.”

In this programme you will also hear Mansour’s composition, Kobani, saluting the young fighters who resisted a siege of their city by ISIS in 2014.

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A preview of the forthcoming Refugee Week online concert with Best Foot Music, featuring interviews and live performances from Sudanese poet Bashir Al Gamar and Jamal and Alaa from Syria.

Please support the fundraiser >>

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A selection of tunes from our house band, the Refugee Radio Orchestra, recorded in 2010. Hope you enjoy this fusion of refugee culture!

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Interview with Syrian folk musicians Jamal & Alaa with their good friend, Phil Minns, founder of the refugee and migrant charity, Best Foot Music.

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Performances by Senegalese musician Khadim Sarr; poets Ali Abdolrezai and Abol Froushan; and artist Hong Dam. With the young people of Bandbazi.

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A live broadcast from a concert on 6th June, 2012 at the Roundhouse in Camden in association with Sandblast, featuring Aziza Brahim and Inua Ellams. This was an event to raise funds for music projects in the refugee camps of the Algerian desert, which are home to the indigenous Saharawi people of Western Sahara who were displaced by the Moroccan occupation in 1975.

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Live music and poetry from the Iranian Community in Brighton, with an amazing display of virtuosity on the santoor by Mr Shapouri and the history behind some mysterious Persian artefacts

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Highlights from World Sacred Music Festival’s Kora Night in Brighton, 2011, as part of our series of programmes on the African harp.

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Brighton’s resident “Kora King” Jali Burama Mbye plays live in the studio and tells us of his childhood in Africa where he was trained in the traditional art of the Gambian Griot from a young age.

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As part of the Refugee Radio Orchestra project, we talk to Amir, an Iranian pop singer who joined our in-house band.

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Refugee Radio Orchestra, Bakk Lamp Fall and Planet Gnawa live at the Komedia, Brighton, 2010

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Interview with Maalem Simo Lagnawi. The master Gnawa musician from Morocco plays live gambri in the studio and talks about the history of his culture.

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An Ethiopian world-pop maverick with fourteen albums under his belt talks exclusively about key issues of the day such as genies, African reggae, Kid Creole and the British meat industry. It’s that kind of show.

An Ethiopian popstar plays a selection of music from his 14 albums live in the studio.

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In the first ever edition of Refugee Radio, Steve speaks to Heval who is a refugee from Afrin, the Kurdish region of Syria.

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