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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This episode features rebellious voices, old and new. Yodet explores the cultural significance of public figures such as Kneecap, Bob Marley, Sinead O’Connor, Abbie Hoffman, Ice Cube, John Lennon & Yoko Ono.
Also featuring is poet Grassy Noel reading a poem by DJ Próvaí in Irish.
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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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The Rebel City group features on this week’s episode of The Circled A show. Yodet interviews two members of the London based anarcho/socialist collective. We discuss anarchist theory and the types of inspiring organsing they do. You’ll have a better understanding of anarchist philosophy in action by the end of this show.
Music by Green Day and Dead Prez.
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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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The latest Show; On the Circled A is John Constable! John is known as a Writer / Performer / ‘Shaman of Crossbones Graveyard’. He is an English playwright, poet, activist and author of The Southwark Mysteries. He also goes by the name John Crow. A shamanic alter-ego. Yodet will also do a reading from an anonymous anarchist, comments on Luigi Mangione (the man charged with murder in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson). We air the New Zealand’s parliament indigenous Haka protest agaist the controversial bill that proposes to radically alter how New Zealand’s treaty between Māori and the crown is interpreted. Also we feature an unreleased song called ‘Elbow Grease’ from the album ‘Incidental Games’ by the band ‘Secluded Bronte’.
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An exclusive interview with Professor Jane Somerville professor of cardiology.
During her career that spanned over 40 years, Jane worked at both the National Heart Hospital and the Royal Brompton, helping to establish the grown up congenital heart disease service (GUCH) at both hospitals.
Jane became the second woman to enter the Paediatric Cardiology Hall of Fame, founded the GUCH Patients Association (later renamed the Somerville Heart Foundation) and the inaugural World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology.
Now in retirement, she is dedicating her time campaigning with whistleblowing practising doctors, in the uk who have found themselves centre stage of a widespread culture of institutionalised coverup, that stretches from their places of work, up to the highest levels of power.
Also featured on the show poetry and song from artist Olie Martin.
Olie Martin is an artist, musician, writer, researcher, activist and co-founder of RIGD Media, an independent platform for citizen journalism and creative content. Originally from the South East of England, he is now based in Argyll & Bute, Scotland following a few years in Manchester & then Liverpool. After leaving school at sixteen, Olie worked in carpentry before discovering his love of books and words and returning to education to study Sociology and Politics at Goldsmiths University. Olie’s relocation ‘up North’ included some personal turmoil and a period of street homelessness. Building on his experiences, Olie created ‘The Sounds of the Streets’, an immersive sonic and sculptural piece capturing the ambient sounds of Manchester’s urban street subculture. The piece featured in the International Arts and Homelessness Festival (Manchester, 2018) and the International Sonic Arts Forum (Huddersfield, 2019), and was showcased at Liverpool’s ‘Light Night’ Festival in May 2020. Olie is a prolific writer, whose published work includes a well-received investigative journalism series for independent publication ‘The Manchester Meteor’, fictional short stories in ‘The Lumpen Journal’ (January 2020) and a collection of selected poetry as ‘The Black Fox’. He is currently in discussions around publication of his first novel, ‘A Gust of Wind’ as well as working on new poetry collections for publication and various sound & music projects. To contact details; olie@oliemartin.com.
We pay tribute to the whistleblower following the release of Julian Assange.
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Fresh from New Zealand, in this three part interview – We discuss the Freedom Movement over there, from an Anarchist perspective. We also cover topics such as the Anti Globalisation activism/resistance, Anti-fascism’s true history and legacy, Black Bloc, The theory of Anarchism vs any ruling class centralised political systems, Anti-semitism and The Far Right.
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On this show Yodet Gherez interviews a long standing Activist who was involved with the Anti Globalization Movements of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. We talk about old and new groups he has been in or is a part of like The Wombles, Plan C, Anti-Fascist organising, varies campaigns and more!
Music by the band 52 commercial road .
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A review/countdown of 2013! We take a look at the 10 great demo’s and actions of the year among them Thatcher’s death party at Trafalga Sq, Anti Fracking camp and No More Page 3 campaign.
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