Radio Free Brighton

My Research Records, going out on Radio Free Brighton as part of the Human Rights Watch (Sat­urdays and Sundays) is cov­er­ing some very inter­est­ing sub­jects. In their own words the show “invites research stu­dents based in Brighton to talk about what they have been invest­ig­at­ing and why it is import­ant. Between the dis­cus­sion they can play their favour­ite music that may or may not be rel­ev­ant to their research.” and seeks to ” to bring the often hid­den world of post-graduate research into a more pub­lic forum in order to provide an edu­ca­tional resource for listen­ers and to act as a form of research com­munity inform­ing other stu­dents and act­iv­ists of debates that may be rel­ev­ant to them.”

Every show will be present­ing a new piece of research and the story behind it, so be sure to listen.

You can find thier latest shows here — “Andrei Gomez-Suarez on the destruc­tion of the Union Pat­ri­ot­ica in Colom­bia” and “Tom Bent­ley talks about what it means when nation states apo­lo­gise to each other for his­tor­ical atro­cit­ies”

Tune in this week to the Human Rights Watch on Sat­urday 25 June at 8PM for a thought pro­vok­ing inter­view with Yvonne Rid­ley, who speaks about how her time under the cap­tiv­ity of the Taliban led her to read the Quran and sub­sequently become a devout Muslim. She addresses mis­con­cep­tions of Islam and Islam­a­pho­bia, dis­cusses her work with Viva Palestina and her recent exper­i­ences in Egypt and Libya, and provides a crit­ical ana­lysis of the Obama Admin­is­tra­tions inter­na­tional policies. If you can’t tune in on Sat­urday, find repeats of the show through­out the week­end on the RFB shed­ule.