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Chatter #96 – Dr Ulrike Vieten on How To Understand Intersectionality

Dr Ulrike Vieten of Queen’s University Belfast was my guest on today’s show. There has been quite a lot of discussion in certain circles over the past few years about the idea of intersectionality. There has been a lot of heavy critiques of the theory over the past few years and I was…

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Chatter #89 – James N on Cyber Torture, Organised Harrassment, and Psychological Warfare

This might be the most insane episode I have done to date. My guest today asked to remain anonymous, so I will just refer to him as James N. During some research I have been doing about psychological and information warfare, I came across the term Cyber Torture. Cyber Torture is a pretty…

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Chatter #86 – Paula McIntyre on Slow Food and Northern Ireland’s Food Culture

Paula McIntyre was my guest on today’s show. Paula is the head of Slow Food Northern Ireland, author of “A Kitchen Year” and “Paula McIntyre’s Down to Earth Cookbook”, and former guest chef on Ready, Steady, Cook! She is a member of the Craft Guild of Chefs, and the Irish Food Writers Guild,…

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Chatter #78 – Hezues R on Mental Health, Suicide, and Choosing Art Over Algorithms

Hezues R, the creative and film-maker was my guest on today’s show. Amongst other things Hezues created the official fragrance for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton and ran a handful of advertising campaigns for Sean P. Diddy Combs’. In this conversation we explored some of the ideas that he…

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Chatter #77 – Carolyn Steel on Sitopia and How Food Can Change The World

Carolyn Steel, the author of Sitopia: How Food Can Change The World and Hungry City was our guest on today’s show. I first came across Carolyn’s writing when her book Sitopia jumped out at me in a book store in Utrecht and it proceeded to blow my mind. The way she has made…

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Chatter #76 – Jasper Mafya on Rap and the Belfast Hip-Hop Scene

Jasper Mafya the Belfast-based rapper/hip hop artist was a guest on my show today. Jasper and I were good friends whilst we were at University and we actually recorded his song together. It was great to get to catch up with Jasper and chat to him all about the music he is making…

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