Ni'coel's professional life focuses on relationships and technology that power the future of culture, human systems, and innovation. Today I talk to her about intimacy and sexuality. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Ni'coel Stark - intimacy and sexuality

Steve is one of the most successful men in Hollywood I speak to him about what makes him tick and to stay human.Steve Krone is a polymath and a raconteur, Steve sits across two branches of American life and culture, the law and entertainment, as a producer. He's a lawyer and a professor and he's a bloody nice bloke as well. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Steve Krone - life, Hollywood and the law

Kieren Paul Brown is the author of Preeta’s Web of Chaos which follows a young girl named Preeta. She’s incredibly bright and gifted, but like so many of us, she doubts herself. However, throughout the course of the book she encounters a series of terrifying obstacles that change her self image. At the start, she thinks she’s small, weak, and just a girl. By the end she realises she‘s one of the most powerful entities to ever exist.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kieren Paul Brown the author of Preeta’s Web of Chaos

Roifield speaks of the creators of Revolution 1 a new podcast about the story of the Tunisian Revolution — the uprising that ignited the Arab Spring — to life through the voices of those who lived it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Erin Brown and Cyrus Roedel talk about their new podcast - Revolution 1

Jennifer a soprano hails from Cincinnati, Ohio and has been described as “a sensitive artist who knows how to turn a phrase while giving urgent meaning to the text.” She has appeared in recital and oratorio in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, and throughout the United States. She talks to Roifield about her voice, relationships and intimacy.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jennifer Gliere

Only Americans Burn in Hell is the only novel for our certifiably insane times. Its American warts and all everyone takes a kicking in this brilliant book.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jarett Kobek - Only Americans Burn in Hell

Nicole is a fascinating soul, her world encompasses the precision of law and the love and appreciation of her adopted nation. Her love of Haiti has led her to immerse herself completely in its culture, becoming a priestess and the bride of five Haitian spirits.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 4 - 2 Nicole Phillips human rights and law professor on Haiti and loving spirits.

I speak to David Shields about is new film Marshawn Lynch: A History which explores the silence that nonconformist NFL star Marshawn Lynch deploys as a form of resistance. Culling more than 700 video clips and placing them in dramatic, rapid, and radical juxtaposition, the film is a powerful political parable about the American media-sports complex and its deep complicity with racial oppression.Born and raised in in Oakland by a single mother, Lynch became an All-American, an All-Pro running back, and a Super Bowl champion, but over the last five years he has emerged as a nationally significant figure precisely because he has refused to “play the game” of being a dutiful, cliché-bound interviewee. Silence-as-rebellion has African-American roots tracing back to slavery, and it’s a gesture that has flourished spectacularly in Oakland, where Lynch is deeply involved in the betterment of his hometown and where “troublemakers” have changed the game generation after generation—from Jack London and Gertrude Stein to the Black Panthers, Hells Angels, and Oakland Raiders (where Lynch is now finishing his career) to Bill Russell and Curt Flood to Alice Walker and Ishmael Reed to Tupac Shakur, Ryan Coogler, and Boots Riley.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 3 Se 2 - David Shields talks about his film Marshawn Lynch a history.

Corey Brettschneider talks to Roifield about the articles and amendments that hold the president to his oath of Office.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 2 Se 2 - Corey Brettschneider - The Oath and the Office

Alisa Sophia talks to Roifield about how she became a prostitute, how she finds satisfaction in her work and her hope for finding her life partner.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 1 Se 2 - Interview with a sex worker, Alisa Sophia on intimacy and connections

Roifield asks Jez Collins of the Birmingham Music Archive, to if Birmingham is so big why isn’t it better?"Madam Medusa" by UB40 was a vivid description of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power depicted in a grotesque style, featuring some of the band's most impassioned and bitter lyrics.Beshara were a reggae band from Moseley, Birmingham, formed in 1976. The band are most notable for their 1981 lovers rock hit "Men Cry Too".  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 72 - Jez Collins of the Birmingham Music Archive on why isn't Birmingham better?

We ask Aziz Al Dory of the history of Westeros podcast why is the Game of Thrones so compelling?Lion Babe is an American alternative R&B duo from New York City, consisting of singer Jillian Hervey and producer Lucas Goodman. "Treat Me Like Fire" features a warm constant vynil record crackle it was released in 2012,  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 71 - Aziz Al Dory on the secret source of The Game of Thrones.

He was the half American Englishmen who became Americas first couturier. The only designer who's patterns are officially recognised as works of art, Charles James came to the US at a time when American designers were giving their ideas for free, while their European counterparts were protecting their intellectual rights through licensing. The man behind the Wrap Dress, the sports bra, the puffer jacket, Dior's New Look of the 1940s and the first fake fur prototype, Charles James was a man who left a far-reaching legacy. Latterly a luxury hotel-hopping International hobo, he hung out with Warhol yet is little known to those outside the world of fashion. Well known philanthropist, author and collector Michèle Gerber Klein talks about her book 'Charles James: Portrait of an Unreasonable Man' and her passion for fashion.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

EP: 70 - The man behind the Wrap Dress, Fake Fur & inspiration for Dior's 'New Look' designer Charles James - author Michèle Gerber Klein

Racial diversity is one of many facets that separates England from the other parts of the United Kingdom. While the UK’s White population totals over 55,010,359 or 87.1% according the 2011 census, just under 13% or over 7.5 million are non white. Over 90% of all British ethnic minorities live in England and most of them can be found in its cities of Birmingham, London, Leicester, Luton, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Coventry and Watford. It’s the arrival of the first mass wave of non white immigrants in 1948 on the Empire Windrush, that really started modern England, a country comfortable enough to say its favourite food is curry and where “Jafacian” is could displace cockney as the dialect of the capitol’s kids. This episode is broadly about that viewed through the prism of one aspect of English culture, Ska.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bonus episode - Ep: 2 The Things that made England - Ska

Music:Pierre Johnson - Movin' on (Original Mix)Seth Lakeman - Lady Of The SeaFatou is the debut album from Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara, it was released in 2011 this is the simple and powerful Sowa.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ep: 69 - Today we speak to Susie Riddell on the ups downs, worries and depression that come with acting

Intelligent Speech where Roifield Brown speaks to friends and interesting people with the backdrop of great tunes. Imagine a poor mans Mike Pesca from The Gist doing Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 6 Music.

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