sanjitchudha's podcast: Recent Episodes
Sanjit Chudha
Who are we? Why are we the way we are? What makes us tick? What's our story? And what are our hopes for the future?
Through conversations about history, arts, culture and society, we chart a path through the complexities of the world today; always telling it like it is, and with compassion.
The link between making music and being alive is a strong one; we are musical creatures. Music moves us. Music makes us think. Music takes us to places we've never been. Music is the sound of our soul.
For 30 years, Natacha Atlas has had a globally renowned career, with at least a dozen albums in her name and numerous collaborations.
Today Atlas is on the cusp of releasing a new EP, The Inner and The Outer, made with long-term collaborator Samy Bishai. A sonic exploration of the retreat into an inner world in the face of the horror and dystopia of the last two years, The Inner and The Outer follows the breath taking jazz album Strange Days, released in late 2019.
Listen to Natacha Atlas and Samy Bishai discussing Music and Life with me in this latest episode of Telling It Like It Is.
You can access the other episodes of Telling Like It Is, here.
In this, the second episode of 'Telling It Like It Is', we explore Technology with writer, journalist and digital technology expert Ian Douglas.
Ian has written 'Is Technology Making Us Sick?', part of the RSA's Big Idea series. The book comes after a working lifetime at Telegraph Media Group where he was Digital Development Editor, The Spectator where he was Head of Digital, and the British Library where he overhauled their digital presence.
Join us as we explore how technology is shaping the world we live in and the choices we make, while giving us the illusion of autonomy and freedom. We discuss how this illusion is making us sick, as individuals and as a society, and explore how we might step out from technology's shadow.
Part philosophy, part explainer, part prescription, this podcast gives us space to think about complex issues in ways we might not always allow ourselves to.
As we stand on the brink of a new age, whose limits are defined by disease and division, we also carry with us the echo in the bone of historic injustice and something richer, wider, and deeper; a world where hope and possibility are treasured, because of what they might bring or enable us to see.
So, to allow ourselves that possibility – that dream of hope – we are giving ourselves time free from the fallouts of hardening borders, governments intent on stoking culture wars, and those who seek to gaslight us.
With playwright and cultural leader, Chinonyerem Odimba, we look at the idea of 'home' to understand the hurts of the past, atone and amend, and plan forward to a better future where 'home' becomes the world of human possibility rather than the retrenching of its limits.
We're living at a time of rapid change. Part of that change means that we are beginning to question our place in the world, and the story we tell about ourselves through our history. Join me in conversation with Professor Corinne Fowler, an expert in the legacies of colonialism and postcolonialism to literature, heritage and representations of British history. Professor Fowler has been seconded to the National Trust to help lay the foundations for new approaches to training, interpretation and programming about country houses’ colonial connections.