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Summer tips for summer trips

Smål Talk - June 04, 2020 01:19 - 30 minutes
Summer has begun! What better way to start it off than listening to Lucy, Hans and Viktor telling you all about the concerts that are gonna be cancelled, micronations on Scanian islands, trainhopping to Tanzania, or the Loch Ness monsters within our souls. Let's pretend that it's summer, and a b...

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HOPE for Towns: Hope in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE not hate - May 29, 2020 19:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Rosie Carter discusses the important work of building communities that are resistant to hatred. She discusses the urban approaches that can lead to a better community in the wake of the pandemic with Will Jennings and Nick Malyan and later Rosie spoke with Kim Leadbeater of More in Common and th...

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Heroes of the Resistance: The Ringleblum Archive and the Ulma Family

HOPE not hate - May 22, 2020 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this final episode of our Heroes of the Resistance series we review some of the most powerful parts of our previous interviews. Matthew McGregor discusses the story that most resonated with him, that of the Ulma family, who attempted to rescue a family of Jews, but were denounced. Anthony Sil...

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Heroes of the Resistance: The Pink Triangle & Gad Beck

HOPE not hate - May 21, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Because homosexuality remained criminalised after the Nazis were defeated, many of the stories of LGBT persecution and LGBT resistance went undocumented, it's victims and heroes were at risk of prosecution if outed as gay. Gad Beck's story of resistance is one exception to that secrecy. Gad,  w...

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Heroes of the Resistance: The Spy Who Loved

HOPE not hate - May 20, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Krystyna Skarbek was travelling outside of Poland when the country fell to the Nazis. In order to fight back after the occupation she threw her lot in with British intelligence offering her unique courage and skills to courier early reports back of the Nazi plan - Operation Barbarossa. Skarbek w...

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Heroes of the Resistance: The Volunteer

HOPE not hate - May 19, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Witold Pilecki, a resistance fighter in the Polish underground, was sent on a mission of great danger and crucial importance to the fight against the Nazis. Witold was tasked with the infiltration of a new camp, that there was scant intelligence on. That camp was Auschwitz. What Witold found the...

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Let's Talk About Gender, Baby!

Smål Talk - May 15, 2020 17:26 - 46 minutes
Queering the tarot - join us as we consult the tarot to figure out the intricacies of gender, snus for white people, internalized homophobia as a bi-product, the letters in LGBTQQIP2SA+ -- all this, and more in our second installment.

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Heroes of the Resistance: A Woman of No Importance

HOPE not hate - May 15, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Sonia Purnell discusses Virginia Hall, who she wrote about in A Woman of No Importance. Working for SOE Virginia was able to do what many of her male colleagues had tried and failed to do- she build a strong resistance network that was able to undermine fascist authority in Vichy France from bel...

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Heroes of the Resistance: The Women in the Mountains

HOPE not hate - May 13, 2020 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
We spoke to Caroline Moorehead about her book A House in the Mountains, the story of four partisan women and their struggle against fascism.

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Heroes of the Resistance: Why We Resist

HOPE not hate - May 08, 2020 08:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
On 19th of April 1943, armed with only a pistol and a lamp, 3 Belgian resistance fighters stopped a train destined for Auschwitz. Outgunned, they nevertheless were able to fend off the Nazi guards, and their heroism rescued 233 prisoners from almost certain death. The history books remember the...

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Heroes of the Resistance: The Italian Partisans in Their Own Words

HOPE not hate - May 01, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Matthew Collins spoke with some of the remaining heroes of the resistance. The Italian partisans he spoke with were messengers and fighters, saboteurs and agitators against Nazism and fascism on Italian soil. Now elderly, each and every one of the antifascists that Matthew spoke with said they w...

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Komodo Dragon King

Smål Talk - April 27, 2020 15:48 - 32 minutes
Smålands Nation now has a podcast! Join us as we discuss how the nation is dealing with the Covid pandemic, our views on Tiger King, rich people in Russia, and more.

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Misinformation is the Virus, Hatred is the Disease

HOPE not hate - April 26, 2020 12:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Patrik Hermansson discusses the spread of conspiracy theories and denialism in the Coronavirus outbreak. Patrik discusses how the divergent theories related to the disease's development have shaped online, far-right spaces, leading to fractious conversations as conspiracy theorists catch the dis...

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Reasons for Hope: Tracking Changing Attitudes in the Corona Outbreak.

HOPE not hate - April 24, 2020 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Matthew McGregor spoke with Rosie Carter regarding her work in tracking the changing attitudes during the Corona virus outbreak. Far from what you would expect in this gloomy period, Rosie's polling found a rise in optimism, at at time of desperate economic outlooks. Amidst rolling news coverage...

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Reasons for Hope: Tracking Changing Attitudes in the Corona Outbreak.

HOPE not hate - April 24, 2020 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Matthew McGregor spoke with Rosie Carter regarding her work in tracking the changing attitudes during the Corona virus outbreak. Far from what you would expect in this gloomy period, Rosie's polling found a rise in optimism, at at time of desperate economic outlooks. Amidst rolling news coverage...

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An Outbreak of Hatred - An Interview with Sarah Owen MP on the Outbreak of Anti Chinese Racism in the Corona Crisis

HOPE not hate - April 03, 2020 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
"This is a pandemic, this is a virus it knows no boundaries[...] therefore we need an international response, not one that seeks to spread division and hatred" Sarah Owen MP. With the contagion spreading internationally, the responses from governments have varied from the lacklustre to the auth...

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Metapolitics: Black Metal Resistance

HOPE not hate - March 20, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In this, the first episode in Metapolitics, a new strand of the HOPE not hate podcast that looks at the cultural fronts in resisting hate, we look at Black Metal Resistance. Nick Spooner from HOPE not hate speaks with Kim Kelly and also George Parr about where this comes from and what antifasci...

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Defining Islamophobia, Where We Are Now

HOPE not hate - March 13, 2020 00:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Safya Khan-Ruf discusses the ongoing struggle to define islamophobia, and describes why its such a political issue. Nick Lowles talks on the recent media smears targetted against Qari Asim, and what really lay behind them.

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A Country That Hates Hatred: Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP Delivers Her Speech on the State of Hate in 2020

HOPE not hate - March 03, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In her speech Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP discusses the State of Hate, and the importance of HOPE not hate's work in confronting, exposing and campaigning against hate over the coming year. 

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The Nazi Satanists Inspiring Terror, An Interview with Nick Lowles

HOPE not hate - March 02, 2020 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Nick Lowles, CEO of HOPE not hate, sat down to discuss the neo-Nazi Satanist group the Order of the Nine Angles, and their promotion of terror in the digital space. The O9A have been linked to violent far-right groups such as Combat 18, the National Socialist Movement, National Action, Sonnenkri...

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Is 2019 the Year Britain's Post War Far Right Finally Died? A Long Read.

HOPE not hate - March 01, 2020 18:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In 2010 the BNP were able to run 338 candidates for Parliament,  humiliatingly the 2019 general election saw them field just one - and he lost his deposit. This trajectory marks a historical low-point for the traditional British far-right parties. But it doesn't tell us the whole story. With ma...

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The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?

HOPE not hate - February 28, 2020 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
HOPE not hate's Joe Mulhall and Patrik Hermansson discuss the circumstances that lead to the publication to their new book 'The International Alt-Right: Fascism for the 21st Century?'. The work of researchers Simon Murdoch, David Lawrence, Hermansson and Mulhall contributed to an important new c...

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Keep Talking - Inside the Secretive Conspiracy Theory Group

HOPE not hate - February 24, 2020 15:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Every month a range of conspiracy theorists from across the political spectrum meet. They come together to share their doubts about everything from the moon landings to 9/11. HOPE not hate and Community Security Trust have been observing the Keep Talking group for years. Our findings reveal how...

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Remembering Srebrenica - Never Again.

HOPE not hate - February 07, 2020 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
25 years since the murder of over 8,000 unarmed Muslims in the days that followed the fall of Srebrenica, Bosnia, we discuss the latent prejudices that allowed for the rapid radicalisation of the former Yugoslavian people towards ethnic bloodshed and mass-murder of their neighbours. Owen Jones,...

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Antifascism Works : The Sinking of Generation Identity in the UK.

HOPE not hate - January 24, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
When HOPE not hate heard of Generation Identity’s plans to try and prevent migrant rescue in the Mediterranean, we teamed up with antifascists across the world; including at Sleeping Giants and Avaaz, in order to stop the far right from risking lives. When GI started a branch in the UK, we infi...

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Antifascism Works : The Sinking of Generation Identity in the UK.

HOPE not hate - January 24, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
When HOPE not hate heard of Generation Identity’s plans to try and prevent migrant rescue in the Mediterranean, we teamed up with antifascists across the world; including at Sleeping Giants and Avaaz, in order to stop the far right from risking lives. When GI started a branch in the UK, we infi...

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We Fight Fascists - The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain. An Interview with Daniel Sonabend.

HOPE not hate - January 19, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In the wake of the Second World War Jewish ex-servicemen returned from war on the continent to find the same hatred being spouted by Mosley's followers in the diverse communities of East London and beyond.  Utterly incensed and with the memory of war and the revelations of the holocaust still fr...

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Angela Saini On Superior: The Return of Race Science

HOPE not hate - January 10, 2020 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Race science underpinned many of the horrors of the recent past from slavery to genocide, but race science continues to exist in the academic space giving succor to far-right activists by justifying their racist worldview. Award-winning journalist Angela Saini spoke to us at HOPE not hate about ...

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HOPE in schools

HOPE not hate - October 09, 2019 15:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
To mark the launch of the HOPE Education Fund our Director of Education and Training, Owen Jones, and Teri, a teacher in a secondary school that has worked with HNH before, discuss the need for resources to counter prejudice, and encourage empathy. This episode also features Robbie Mullen, our s...

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Brexit and Northern Ireland: the stirring of a painful past in today’s communities.

HOPE not hate - October 05, 2019 18:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Two murders this year have sent shocking echoes of Northern Ireland past: that of Lyra Mckee, attributed to the “New IRA”, and the other of Ian Ogle attributed to the UVF. With Brexit approaching the risk that Northern Ireland’s painful past could be back in the present is on the rise. Matthew M...

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