Looking back at past shows with late anarchist Benjamin Zephaniah, anarchist Dave Morris of The McLibel case, Trenton Oldfield who protested against British elitism by disrupting the 2012 Oxford vs Cambridge university boat race and Robert King of The Angola 3. Music by Wolves: UK Metalcore band’s single ‘Reformed (Try Love) from their debut album ‘Self-Titled’; https://ripcordrecords.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-2 .
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman returns on The Circled A, we talk about the current state of Feminism. What has the impact of Classism, Imperialist denialism syndrome, Conservative backlash and Queer Theory had on Feminist critique. Ekman is Author of ‘Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (2013).’ And ‘On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman (2022).’
Kajsa is a Marxist Feminist based in Stockholm Sweden.
Music by Paris Paloma – Labour. Buffy Sainte-Marie – Suffer the Little Children. Luise Pop – Feminist Terrorist.
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Yodet interviews Stephen Gerringer of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. This show will interpret The Hero’s, and Maureen Murdock’s The Heroine’s, Journey. In the context of Activism, The Occult and Esoteric teachings.
Music by; Tom Paxton – ‘What Did You Learn in School Today?’. And Woody Guthrie; ‘All You Fascists Bound To Lose’.
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Blakians street scholars Stephen Micalef’ and Helen Elwes..… join me today to talk about Blake. Steve started the Brixton Poets – a free, weekly poetry night in the city back in the mid 80’s to the mid 90’s .
Helen is a visual artist. And they both Directors of the William Blake congregation.
Music; ‘Let The Slave’ by Mike Westbrook, The Westbrook Blake(1980).
‘Nutopia’ by Meg Lee Chin – album ‘Piece and Love’.
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A two part interview with social media American anarchist Anark & Canadian anarchist Re_Education_Shorts. We talk Revolution, social change, And the recent American immigration raids. We also cover a range of anarchist theory.
In part two Yodet reflects on the recent rise of British Nationalism in Aug/Sept of 2025.
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We feature an interview with anarchist activist and author Paul Cudenec. We talk about the Anti Globalist movement, big pharma, scientism, Gaza, anarchist principles and more!
With some insights from the late Terence Mckenna on the role of the Artist as Rome burns.
Music by Neon Space Dogs.
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More about the band Neon Space Dogs here; https://neonspacedogs.bandcamp.com/album/i-spy-with-my-3rd-eye-something-beginning-with-ohm
Photo credit; Max Crow Reeves.
The Circled A interviews a member behind Past Tense. Past Tense is a project exploring working class, subversive, esoteric, underground history and geography of London.
Poetry from Noel Grassy Macken.
Yodet Gherez (Conceptual Artist and host of the Circled A) does a reading from;
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Could we survive without a world of ‘State Trade secrets’ ‘classified documents’ and ‘defending the National Interest’? And could we survive with no Pharo’s, Kings and Queens, Ceaser’s, Presidents, Pope’s, Ceo’s and alike?
Instead placing our time and energy in ways that positively contribute to the culture and society at large, as well as improving our own one to one interactions in our personal lives. All the whilst honouring individual pursuit to foster the conditions that create value in happiness. To question if we really want to continue to chase after that dangling carrot presented in front of us. Why not set our own agendas instead of getting lost in false status based hiearchy?
Joining me is guest Sophie Scott-Brown. Sophie is a modern intellectual historian and philosopher specialising in direct democracy. Her research interests is in modern European political thought, Anarchism, and the history of education. Her historical work on left-wing politics, especially the post-war British left, has earned her widespread recognition.
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We explore the nature of Jewish and Christian (which was it’s predecessor)Zionist ideolgy, and how the Capitalists, Far Right and NeoCon’s have also come to embrace it. Yodet interviews Tony Greenstein. A British left-wing activist, writer, Anti-fascist, former squatter, and founding member of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Greenstein is opposed to Zionism which he says is a racist and supremacist ideology.’
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Tony Greenstein book is below.
On the first Circled A show of 2025, Yodet Gherez is joined by American magical realism genre author Susan Wands. Susan is a former actor now writer, and a tarot enthusiast. We delve into the world of Pamela Colman Smith (creator of the best-selling tarot, the Waite Smith deck), who’s based on Susan’s first book, Magician and Fool, in the Arcana Oracle Series, creator of the best-selling tarot, the Waite Smith deck.
There are images that Susan provides which will be posted on instagram-https://www.instagram.com/thecircledashow/
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