Going Underground
We speak to fashion icon Vivienne Westwood; resisting the power of the City of London; and death, murder, and redemption in African America. Plus, does mainstream print media control the democratic system? LIKE Going...
Three times a week Afshin Rattansi and his team go underground to discover the stories that aren’t being covered by the mainstream UK media. From GCHQ to Occupy protests, and everything else in between, Going Underground is here to bring a fresh perspective to our audiences around Britain.
- Vivienne Westwood’s revolution, fighting neoliberalism & African-American identity (E391)We speak to fashion icon Vivienne Westwood; resisting the power of the City of London; and death, murder, and redemption in African America. Plus, does mainstream print media control the democratic system? LIKE Going...
- Corporate-sponsored state spying, CIA torture & does the coalition support ISIS? (E390)
We speak to the man who discovered UK state spies working with big business. Award-winning author and former hostage Charles Glass speaks on the confusion in Syria. Plus, the president of the Chagos Islands on if his homeland is a CIA torture... - Libya’s destruction, Venezuela’s music & is it the end of the NHS? (E389)
We speak to the Royal College of Physicians about government cuts. We also talk to Dr. Suliman Alshahmy, the man who started Libya’s stock market on NATO’s destruction of the country. Plus, we have music from Venezuela’s Yoyo... - Corbyn vs Smith, surviving ISIS & the danger of forensics (E388)
We speak to the National Executive Committee's Claudia Webb on Labour’s next leader. We also talk with a Sunni cleric who survived Islamic State assassination attempts, and we discuss Washington's drone kills and the controversy over the... - UK / US military industrial complex, elitist grammar schools & climate change catastrophe (E387)
We speak to Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff about US-NATO-Russia relations; UK’s former Shadow Schools Minister on selective education in grammar school, and why has Britain lost MORE nature than the global average? LIKE Going... - Peace talks for Israel & Palestine, 2 years till Scottish independence, and police spy ops (E386)
We speak to Norman Finkelstein about Israel and Palestine. Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond tells us about Jack Straw’s alleged leaked emails and Scottish independence. Plus, we discuss police spying on protesters with Dr.... - Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair on Libya, prison politics & ill Hillary (E385)
We speak to Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Crispin Blunt about the new report that shows Islamic State was born from the war on Libya. The commissioning editor of Inside Time, Noel ‘Razor’ Smith, tells us about... - Mogadishu’s militancy, young minds at risk & 15 years shooting Afghanistan (E384)
We speak with former Africa Correspondent ahead of Somalia’s first parliamentary elections since 1984, Charity Young Minds on Tory policies putting cash before care, and one of the USA’s most distinguished photojournalists about his 15... - Snowden, WikiLeaks & 15yrs since 9/11 (E383)
We talk to WikiLeaks’ Sarah Harrison who took fugitive NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden to Moscow, CIA whistle-blower John Kiriakou on the legacy of NATO’s mass slaughter, torture, and population displacement in the wake of 9/11, and a... - Prime Minister May, Angela ‘Darth Vader’ eagle & real reason for Iraq (E367)
Afshin Rattansi goes underground on Iraq and the week’s news. Why hasn’t the shock and awe of the Chilcot report swayed Bianca Jagger? We speak to human rights advocate and the founder and president of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights...
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