Category: Listen Again

Culture Shots #30

admin May 29, 2012
Culture Shots #30 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud Culture Shots marks the start of National Volunteering Week by exploring both motivations for volunteering and the beneficial impact of volunteers have on communities. First up Marie Lall interviews…
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Culture Shots #28

admin March 6, 2012
Culture Shots #28 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud Culture Shots programme 28 marks International Children’s Day of Broadcasting by dedicating the programme to listening to the views of children, and featuring guest hosts Ayesha Coyle and Asim…
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Culture Shots #27

admin February 28, 2012
Culture Shots #27 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud On Culture Shots programme 27 Mariaam Bhatti interviews Grainne O’Toole, Workplace Rights Project Leader with the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI). Later on we hear excerpts from a speech…
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Culture Shots #26

admin February 28, 2012
Culture Shots #26 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud Culture Shots programme 26 Celebrates the Year of the Dragon. Jim Raman learns a bit more about both the Chinese community and the Chinese New Year celebrations in Dublin…
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Culture Shots #25

admin February 22, 2012
Culture Shots #25 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud Culture Shots programme 25 takes a closer look at Belong To’s new project for Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgendered Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Eoin Drinan interviews Marissa Ryan, the…
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Culture Shots #24

admin February 14, 2012
Culture Shots #24 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud Culture Shots programme 24 marks World Radio Day with interviews exploring the potential of radio as a tool for advancing the realization of Human Rights. First up, Marie Lall…
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Culture Shots #23

admin February 8, 2012
Culture Shots #23 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud In this programme Jim Raman interviews Junyu Wang and Emmanuel NjumeSone, Health Advocacy officers at Cairde about access to sexual health services for migrant communities. Later, Eoin Drinan speaks…
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Culture Shots #22

admin January 31, 2012
Culture Shots #22 (Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media) by Near Fm on Mixcloud In this programme Mariaam Bhatti interviews Edel McGinely of the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) about the Justice for the Undocumented campaign for an Earned Regularisation Scheme which would…
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Between the Lines: 22/01/2012

admin January 25, 2012
Katherine Gibney was joined in the studio by SIPTU sector organiser Louise O’ Reilly, regular contributor Brian Greene (the Socialist Party) and Johhny Fox of IMPACT. We talked about the privatisation of Dublin’s refuse collection in the context of the increased charges, ineffective change…
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Episode 2 of ‘Turn a New Leaf’

admin January 24, 2012
The story of ‘Danny Dempsey and the Unlikely Alliance’ continued in Episode 2 today. In this part, we hear about Mrs. Pearson’s visit to the Garda Station to complain about Danny. We meet two new characters, Garda Harrington and Superintendent Clifford…and the…
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