Shows
Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneursNew Funding for Businesses and Social Enterprises and a High Street Hero's Evergreen AdviceEvery week on this show we try to highlight new grant and funding opportunities for businesses and social enterprises.Today (28 October 2022) we have details of 10 x £40,000 grants; funding streams with £8,000 and £18,000 awards; and a new games and tech accelerator programme.Those come after news of the shortlist announcement for the Sheffield Business Awards 2022. Several of the finalists have appeared on previous episodes of this radio show.One is The Treehouse Board Game Café, shortlisted for the High Street Hero Award which recognises "an independent retail, hospitality or leisure business that is playing a vital...2022-10-2835 min
Business Live: for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneursWriter Akeem Balogun on Words, Vision and Sound, Okapi Books and the realm of the imaginationIt can be unfair to quote a line from a writer's work out of context. But the words 'Truths are unpopular. Lies are famous' capture the weird maelstrom of social media posturing, fake news, politicians who'll promise whatever it takes to get elected, and over-friendly corporate messaging we're bombarded by today. The lines come from Akeem Balogun's 'Nothing too Serious,' published at Written Gallery, and written in a different context. But imaginative fiction can show us future possibilities as well as risks. Akeem's debut short story collection, The Storm, won the Somerset Maugham Award and "shows us...2022-10-1436 min
Late To ItI Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (translated by Ros Schwartz) and The Storm by Akeem BalogunKirsty and Naomi discuss two speculative fiction books: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman (translated by Ros Schwartz) and The Storm by Akeem Balogun.
Other books mentioned:
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
808s and Otherworlds by Sean Avery Medlin2022-05-251h 01
Love the WordsLove The Words 121Found Fiction podcast talks to Akeem Balogun, new writing from young ELFM writers, fiction from Pam Hilton.2020-11-101h 00
Look Closer: The Found Fiction PodcastAkeem BalogunIn this edition, writer Akeem Balogun joins host Steve Clarkson on a search for inspiration around Sheffield. Along the way, Akeem discusses his creative processes, habits and learnings.
2020-11-0751 min
Festival of the MindSheffield Carescapes: Potential Futures for a Caring SocietyWriter Akeem Balogun presents two short stories How Many Years? performed by Kate Woods and Reuben Johnson, and Comprehensive and Assistive Robotic Enhancer performed by Rose Gray and Sile Sibanda.
These stories were written for the Sheffield Carescapes: Potential Futures for Caring Society project and were inspired by Dr Matthew Lariviere's work on the future of care technologies and practices.
Part of Festival of the Mind 2020 festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2020
Attributions
"Ambience - busy call-centre" by DNL Burnett CC by 3.0
"Writing" by Leoctiurs CC by 3.0
"Writing with scissors" by MoKoLoKo CC by 3.02020-09-2243 min