SOAS Radio

SOAS Radio

Independent Radio Station based at SOAS, University of London. Broadcasting music and speech content with a focus on Africa, Asia and the Middle East. London UK · For our full content, go to www.soasradio.org

Episodes

Movements & Sounds - Munkimuk a.k.a. Munk: Living and Breathing First Nations Hip Hop

October 22, 2022 • 83 mins
Munk, A.K.A. Munkimuk, is a Jardwadjali Koori hip hop artist, rapper, producer, breakdancer, visual artist and composer (what hasn’t he done?!) from Sydney. He co-founded the hip hop group (although he calls it “just his group of mates”) South West Syndicate and has his own program “Making Tracks” on Koori Radio, a First Nations radio station based in Sydney. During our talk, I found out Munk is a well of wisdom when it comes to In...
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Movements & Sounds - Drag queen El Beauty

July 25, 2022 • 55 mins
El Beauty is a First Nations drag queen, based in western Sydney’s Parramatta (Burramatta). She’s also referred to as “the beauty of the West.” She regularly lip-syncs across the city, and today El will talk about her experiences of the art of Indigenous drag. Find out more: • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/el_beauty_dragqueen/ • IndigiTube LGBTQI+ channel: https://www.indigitube.com.au/channel/62c6130fb82f59227d85376d • NAI...
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Movements & Sounds - Luke Patterson: A Soundwalk in Redfern

July 25, 2022 • 86 mins
Gamilaroi poet and musician Luke Patterson takes us on a walk through Sydney’s inner-western suburb Redfern, built on Gadigal land. Redfern, seen as the heart of Indigenous activism in Sydney, is Luke’s homebase. After we grabbed a quick coffee, Luke told me all about his experiences of living here – as well as in Kurnell, about his idea of Country, about the blending of city -and urban sounds in his creative work, and last but not...
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Movements & Sounds - Yidinji: Visual artist and Didgeridoo player

July 25, 2022 • 34 mins
Yidinji, who is named after his tribal group near Cairns in Australia, is a visual artist and didgeridoo player. We talked about his style of art, the importance of his – uniquely made – digeridoo, and his important work with kids and wider communities in the Canberra region, through his art gallery: Burrunju Aboriginal Art Gallery. From caring for Country, to busking on the Cairns streets to organising workshops: Yidinji does it a...
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Movements & Sounds: Interview with Dominic Allen (Carriberrie)

July 12, 2022 • 28 mins
In this episode of Movements & Sounds, Dominic Allen shares his work on a multi-platform project he initiated and directed: Carriberrie. Carriberrie showcases song and dance by various Indigenous cultural groups across Australia, which can be watched in planetariums as a fulldome experience, through VR, and is also accessible through an online website. Dominic sheds light on his experiences working with First Nations artists, as a ...
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Movements & Sounds - Mi-kaisha

June 21, 2022 • 53 mins
This episode features soul and R&B musician Mi-kaisha, a Darumbal Murri and Tongan artist raised in Sydney who shares her experiences of performing for her community, as well as abroad. She made her dream come true studying at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and has many achievements in her pocket: she was NAIDOC Youth of the Year in 2019, the same year she released her first EP titled Mi-kaisha, she won FBi Radio’s N...
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Understanding Yoga Studies | #5 Dagmar Wujastyk

May 31, 2022 • 44 mins
Dagmar is Associate Professor in the department of History, Classics, and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta and an indologist specialised in the history and literature of classical Indian medicine and alchemy. We discuss the complexities and opportunities of interdisciplinary research and how both disciplinary expertise and academic humility are important in furthering knowledge and cross-cultural exchange and understa...
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Movements & Sounds - Cianna Walker

May 16, 2022 • 29 mins
Cianna Walker is a Yuin and Gumbaynggirr musician living in Sydney. She is at the start of her music career as a singer and she studies Music at the Sydney Conservatorium of music. Cianna comes from a long line of Indigenous activists and cultural educators. We talked about her experiences of starting her university endeavour, awkward land acknowledgements, Indigenous languages, and, turns out, Cianna is a lover of movies! Stay tun...
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Understanding Yoga Studies #4 Daniela Bevilacqua

April 28, 2022 • 25 mins
Interview with Dr Daniela Bevilacqua, South Asianist and post-doctoral researcher on the Haṭha Yoga Project. We discuss her extensive fieldwork with ascetic communities in India and why the best time to be doing ethnographic research in the field of Yoga Studies is now!
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Understanding Yoga Studies #3 Suzanne Newcombe

March 18, 2022 • 27 mins
In episode 3 of the Understanding Yoga Studies series we interview Suzanne Newcombe, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the OU. We cover the importance of contemporary history, yoga as a powerful prism for understanding the contemporary world and the joy of archives!
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Understanding Yoga Studies Episode #2 Jason Birch

March 3, 2022 • 50 mins
Listen to an interview with Dr Jason Birch, Senior Research Fellow on the 'Light on Hatha Yoga' Project who discusses the discipline of philology, just what it takes to produce a critical edition, worm eaten manuscripts and his latest textual discovery a 14th century compendia entitled the Yogārṇava, 'The Ocean of Yoga'.
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Movements & Sounds - Yulugi

February 3, 2022 • 62 mins
This podcast has been brought to life as part of Charlotte Schuitenmaker’s PhD Thesis on contemporary Indigenous musics in Australia, investigating the relations between activism, urbanism, and Indigeneity through music. Instead of using interviews for just her thesis, Charlotte wants to share the interviews with you. The stories are important, and this way they are more accessible. Please be advised that this podcast contains ref...
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Making Sense

January 27, 2022 • 51 mins
A podcast series aiming to make sense of our complex world; in each episode, SOAS academics interpret global affairs through a multi-disciplinary approach. First Episode: This week's guest is Scott Newton, Head of the School of Law, Gender and Media at SOAS, University of London. Scott, a true polymath, explains legal systems and philosophy, the unfairness of justice systems, Critical Race Theory, and the coming age of Transhumani...
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Understanding Yoga Studies Episode #1 | Indology | Interview with Dr James Mallinson

January 26, 2022 • 28 mins
This podcast is brought to you as part of the Understanding Yoga Studies project, an online content series designed specifically to support early career and independent scholars gain a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the academic field of Yoga Studies. As a recognised field of academic study Yoga Studies is relatively young. Historically the study of traditions of yoga lived within a number of other academic disciplines; f...
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Panjab In My Eye // Episode 17

January 9, 2022 • 42 mins
Hearts on sleeves. Panjab In My Eye Episode 17 features a mix of artists who have come up in the 2020s. Celebrating Panjabi love, heartache and expressiveness, this weeks show features artists Jeona Sandhu, Arsh Heer and Noor Tung amongst others. Panj Dareyavaan Da Bass - Bass of the Five Rivers Badshah - Surinder Shinda (Prod Sukh Rana) 00:00 Kabooter (Dr. Aashmeen Shahi) - Jeona Sandhu & Wazir Patar 02:30 Location (ft. Humble K...
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Sound & Colour: Pooja's Mumbai

January 7, 2022 • 57 mins
Dive into the beauty of Mumbai with guest host Pooja playing the sounds of her hometown. Expect Bollywood songs, Rap, a Koli song and some fun references to trains.
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W/msb - 6

January 5, 2022 • 40 mins
With/msb Ep.6 1. Serious – Mansur Brown 00:00 2. Point of View – LTJ Bukem 02:40 3. 2Am – Boonshot 04:28 4. Cool Bless Safe – Finn Foxell 06:10 5. Will You Cry – See Dee 07:45 6. First Class – Khruangbin 10:20 7. Papaya – Wun Two 13:25 8. You Can’t Turn Me Away – Sylvia Striplin 15:30 9. More than a lover, more than a woman – Cay Caleb 18:00 10. U don’t need no frontin’ – Austin Marc 19:30 11. Egyptian Luvr (ft Aminé & Dana Willia...
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Movements and Sounds - Dobby

January 5, 2022 • 37 mins
This podcast has been brought to life as part of Charlotte Schuitenmaker's PhD Thesis on contemporary Indigenous musics in Australia, investigating the relations between activism, urbanism, and Indigeneity through music. Instead of using interviews for just her thesis, Charlotte wants to share the interviews with you. The stories are important, and this way they are more accessible. Please be advised that this podcast contains n...
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Panjab In My Eye // Episode 16

January 1, 2022 • 41 mins
Panjab In My Eye’ Episode 16 featuring Karan Aujla, BBS, Rokitbeats and Gagan Mand. Some feel good and some acceleration tracks. Giving exposure to sound aesthetics and artists through flips, recent releases and Panjabi mixes. Panj Dareyaavan Da Bass - Bass of the Five Rivers on SOAS Radio Tere Te Remix ft AP Dhillon & Gurinder Gill - DJ BBS 00:00 80 Degrees ft Amaal - Karan Aujla 01:45 Sade Bare Ki Sochya - DJ HMD 04:18 No Proble...
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Sound & Colour: Sounds From Cuba - Santería, Jazz, Timba

December 27, 2021 • 56 mins
Cuban music, the real deal. This episodes aims at giving its listeners an authentic introduction to the richness and complexity of the music made on the island of Cuba. It focuses on the influence Afro-Cuban religions have on the culture of the island which lead to the development of one of the most exciting music scenes in the world. Hopefully you'll find some hidden gems and lesser known treasures when listening. Paolo was lucky ...
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