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The Great Unknown Podcast
by The Great Unknown
A podcast about global cultural explorations. We venture into the unknown to discover more about the world and fill in some blanks in our atlas of culture, art, history, entertainment, literature, technology and much more. Each episode we choose a new theme to inspire our explorations.
Episodes
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In Brief: Collective Aid Calais - Clara and Maya
Join us to check in on the refugee situation in Northern France in the chaos of 2020. Maya and Clara tell us all about their work distributing non-food-items with Collective Aid, and how coronavirus and the shifting political landscape has affected this work. “In the first lockdown, police...
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A podcast about global cultural explorations. We venture into the unknown to discover more about the world and fill in some blanks in our atlas of culture, art, history, entertainment, literature, technology and much more. Each episode we choose a new theme to inspire our explorations.
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In Depth: Dystopias
Season 2 has arrived! In these strange and uncertain times we’ve found ourselves turning to the alternate realities and projections of our future through Dystopian fiction. How can we frame our existence by examining the hypothetical extremes in which our world could go? Should we be afraid or is...
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In Brief: Refugym Greece - Brittany
"Exercise, Endorphins & Escapism" with Brittany the founder of REFUGYM. Join us for a fascinating look into the wonderful work they do at a refugee camp near Athens, Greece. Check out the episode to discover just how REFUGYM lives and breathes its motto, and cares for the mental and physical…
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In Time: France Special 8 - Wrap Up
"We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone" In this episode we discuss what we've learned from all of the people we've interviewed about the refugee series in Northern France. We...
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In Brief: Project Play - Otis - France Special 7
In a warehouse in Calais, we chat to Otis from Project Play, a charity that organises play sessions for refugee children, whatever situation they are in. They seek to address the developmental needs of children, giving them moments of fun that are also educational and social. Otis tells us how…
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In Brief: Help Refugees - Maddy - France Special
"Ultimately these are people who have not chosen to leave home"... "A refugee is a product of a broken system" Even in Coronavirus affected times throughout the world, there are still several thousand refugees without shelter in Northern France. In February before the virus struck, we spoke to...
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In Brief: Refugee Women's Centre - France Special 5
"A lot of the issues that we come across aren't just related to the fact that these are migrant women, it's also related to patriarchal structures in European countries that they travel through, and home countries that they come from. And so everything that has lead to women - or to people in...
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In Brief: Refugee Community Kitchen (RCK) - Sam - France Special 4
Continuing the look at the refugee situation in Northern France, we chat to Sam, one of the founders of RCK. We discuss how RCK came to be and the phenomenal people who came together to share their skills. We look at their current challenges, and why exactly there are thousands of people in need…
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In Brief: Sylvie Interview - France Special Episode 3
James speaks to Sylvie, a local resident in Calais. She has been living there with her children for a number of years. She tells us about her life, living in Calais, and her view on the situation.
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In Brief: France Special Episode 2 - Woodyard Interview
In this first In Brief interview of the Northern France series, James speaks to Bean, one of the Woodyard co-ordinators in Calais. They distribute around 50000 kilos of firewood every month to refugee camps in Calais. We talk about how Bean came to be there, why firewood, and how the situation...
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In Time: France Special - Episode 1
Welcome to our new format! "In Time" episodes will react the events in the moment. "In Depth" will continue our thematic explorations into culture, and "In Brief" will be bursts of short form content: interviews and audio moments. In this first "In Time" episode, we start a special mini-series on...
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Episode 6 - Contact Sports
In the final episode of Season 1, we explore the intense physical world of Contact Sports. We hung up our boots shortly after realising we weren't cut out to be bashed around, so we sit in the studio and muse on others who put their bodies on the line in the name of sport. We chat to Alex, the...
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Bonus Pod - Episode 6a
Bonus pod time! Announcing Episode 6: Contact Sports, and how you can get involved, plus rounding up some feedback from episode 5.
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Episode 5 - Alcohol
In this episode we explore alcohol. Don't worry it's not just us jabbering away after a few drinks, we have been looking into the complex cultural role alcohol has around the world. Plus, Homer Simpson, Terry Pratchett, Homer's Odyssey, Moldovan wine cellars, and the World Health Organisation. We...
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Episode 4 - Time
In this episode, we explore what Time means to us, by looking at science, and the practical side of time, and then exploring real time in the moving image, by looking at Christian Marclay's legendary video installation 'The Clock', as we all Run Lola Run and High Noon. We also explore To The...
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Episode 3 - Artificial Intelligence
In the third episode, we explore A.I. past, present and future. We run through a brief history, and a cultural history to take us up to the present day. We speak to Sheila Hayman, a documentary film-maker who has been making films and conducting research about A.I. since 1985. We explore the…
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Episode 2 - Mountains
In this months episode we will travel the globe examining the link between Mountains and us. We are very lucky to have the wonderful Te Arahi, from New Zealand, on the show talking about the bond between people and Nature. We also discuss the Romantics and the Sublime, the religious significance…
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Pilot - Fire
In the first episode of The Great Unknown, Wolf and James explore the theme of fire, by looking at fire watch towers in the U.S.A. Arcade Fire music videos and the 2018 Korean film Burning, directed be Lee Chang Dong. Written and Produced by The Great Unknown Theme for The Great Unknown composed...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast about global cultural explorations. We venture into the unknown to discover more about the world and fill in some blanks in our atlas of culture, art, history, entertainment, literature, technology and much more. Each episode we choose a new theme to inspire our explorations.
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A podcast about global cultural explorations. We venture into the unknown to discover more about the world and fill in some blanks in our atlas of culture, art, history, entertainment, literature, technology and much more. Each episode we choose a new theme to inspire our explorations.
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