Storytelling Episodes

Last December, I was on the London Underground when an ad from the Government of Ireland caught my attention: “The Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme is open for applications.”I assumed it was something like a truth-and-reconciliation effort, reaching out to people abroad who had been harmed in the past. But when I began looking into what these institutions actually were—places where unmarried pregnant women were sent to give birth—I realised the story was far darker and far more comple...

In this episode, I spoke with Manal Hamdoun Ghandour who works for a Lebanese NGO that deals with issues of the past, reconciliation and trauma sensitive peacebuilding. She explained the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war; the amnesty law; how the families of the disappeared people reacted to it and reconciliation efforts through AI, all of which can be relevant after the regime change in Syria.

After the war in Bosnia was finished in 1995, the…

In this episode, I spoke with Gael Cochrane who w…

Emily May is the co-founder of 'Right To Be', an …

In this episode, I present two guests whose count…

My guest Marina Cantacuzino is the Founder of The…