Isabelle Roughol

Journalist, podcaster, media consultant, public historian. Telling stories & building better newsrooms. 🎓 Mizzou '08, Birkbeck '25.

How we think about refugees is a fiction

How we think about refugees is a fiction

From refugee camp to Princeton University, a story of incredible grit and luck. Episode 26 with Ty McCormick.

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Episode 26: Ty McCormick on the maze of refugee resettlement

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025 | Valerie Hansen | The year 1000, when globalization began

025 | Valerie Hansen | The year 1000, when globalization began

A millenium ago, the Vikings landed in Canada, Islam spread in China and Southeast Asia was already the world’s factory. Welcome to the first globalization. Globalization isn’t just the stuff of airplanes and container ships. It’s not colonization and circumnavigation alone. It started much sooner. Dr Valerie

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Forget Columbus. Globalization began a lot sooner than you think

Forget Columbus. Globalization began a lot sooner than you think

Vikings, Mayas and the ancient Chinese were already bringing the world closer together in the year 1000. Episode 25 with Dr Valerie Hansen.

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Episode 25: Dr Valerie Hansen on immigration, conquest and trade in the year 1000

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024 | Zoe Gardner | "We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system"

024 | Zoe Gardner | "We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system"

Migrant women are at a higher risk of violence and abuse, often because of the State itself, explains immigration activist Zoe Gardner. In this conversation, Zoe Gardner covers: * How immigration exposes women to a higher risk of violence and abuse * Why policing and immigration enforcement must be decoupled * WTF “no

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"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system"

"We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system"

Migrant women are at a higher risk of violence and abuse, often because of the State itself, explains immigration activist Zoe Gardner.

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023 | Selda Shamloo | When your passport locks you in

023 | Selda Shamloo | When your passport locks you in

Selda Shamloo is taking the Home Office to court. Her mother, who’s Iranian, has been repeatedly denied a simple tourist visa to visit her. This is life on an ostracized passport. For many of us, our passport is a symbol of our wanderlust, a badge of our freedom. It’

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