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Scam News and TrackerCybercrime Crackdown: Law Enforcement Decimates Digital Dirtballs in 2025 Takedown FrenzyHey listeners, Scotty here, your go-to scam slayer with a techie twist on the latest cyber chaos. Picture this: I'm scrolling my feeds on December 29th, 2025, and bam—law enforcement's dropping hammers left and right on these digital dirtballs. Just yesterday, CBS12 reported a Stuart, Florida resident got fleeced out of 10 grand by a slick FDIC impersonator who posed as a fed, spun a yarn about a fake bank probe, and tricked the poor soul into buying a lockbox and handing over cash at a public spot. Classic move, listeners—FDIC, banks, cops? They never ask you to pull cash and...
2025-12-2904 min
DUAL Poetry PodcastNature Poetry and The Climate EmergencyThis week the Dual Poetry Podcast is focusing on nature poems. In the shadow of the climate emergency poems about the natural world take on a new significance, so during the second week of the 2021 COP 26 conference in Glasgow we consider now contemporary poets are taking on and reshaping the traditional subject of nature. Setting aside red roses, summer flowers, floral metaphors about love or odes to the glories of the countryside, rather we are looking to nature as a site of political encounter. So on this weeks podcast our poems in Turkish, Somali and...
2021-11-1214 min
DUAL Poetry PodcastBlack History Month PodcastListen to two poems from the Poetry Translation Centre Archive: 'Taste' by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf translated by Said Jama Hussein with poet Clare Pollard and 'He Tells Tales of Meroe' by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, translated by Atef Alshaer and Rashid El Sheikh with poet Sarah Maguire, selected for Black History Month. DEALS Our Black History Month bundle features So At One With You, an anthology of modern poetry in Somali and He Tells Tales of Meroe: Poems for the Petrie Museum by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi from Sudan. Buy it here: https://www.poetrytranslation.org/s...
2020-10-0912 min
Dual Poetry PodcastBlack History Month PodcastListen to two poems from the Poetry Translation Centre Archive: 'Taste' by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf translated by Said Jama Hussein with poet Clare Pollard and 'He Tells Tales of Meroe' by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, translated by Atef Alshaer and Rashid El Sheikh with poet Sarah Maguire, selected for Black History Month.DEALSOur Black History Month bundle features So At One With You, an anthology of modern poetry in Somali and He Tells Tales of Meroe: Poems for the Petrie Museum by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi from Sudan. Buy it here: https://www.poetrytranslation.org/shop/black-history-month-bundleALSO use the code NAJWAN 2020 to get a...
2020-10-0912 min
Original Pilot Material...from The SocialS1E13: Stuff They Don't Tell You As A Young ParentVanessa Kanbi is a filmmaker and podcaster. She first became a parent at the age of 20 and had her second kid when she was 24. Prior to this, she had absolutely zero experience of babies... which got her thinking... what are those essential bits of advice she wishes she'd had before she became a young parent? In this episode of Original Pilot Material, Vanessa is joined by her mates Lily and John to go through some of the crucial stuff you need to know if you're about to become a parent or even just thinking about it in the future...
2019-12-0221 minOriginal Pilot Material...from The SocialS1E12: Understanding Sickle Cell Disease: Up the M1 TakeoverOlivia and Danyelle live in Leeds and host their own podcast, Up the M1, in which they discuss everything from politics to pop music. In this takeover episode of Original Pilot Material, they find out more about a condition that affects thousands of people in the UK, predominantly those from African or Caribbean backgrounds: sickle cell disease. They chat to friends Anne and Onique about living with sickle cell and how it affects every aspect of their lives. It's a subject we don't hear a lot about and one that Danyelle and Olivia are keen to explore....
2019-11-2519 minOriginal Pilot Material...from The SocialS1E11: How Much Porn Is Too Much Porn?When should you start to worry about your porn usage? Mandy Rose Jones is a blogger and founder of The Empowered Woman Project. In this episode of Original Pilot Material, she chats to podcaster Paul Shields about an issue that eventually took grip on his whole life: pornography addiction. Paul talks candidly about his experience, the effect it had on his mental health and how it eventually led to the end of a relationship. However, there was light at the end of the tunnel for Paul who now helps others deal with their own addiction. Mandy also has a...
2019-11-1823 minOriginal Pilot Material...from The SocialS1E2: Why Tick-Box Inclusivity Doesn't Work For Us - The Three Pound Thirty Girls TakoverThe Three Pound Thirty podcast (@threepoundthirty), hosted by friends Asha, Sana and Reem from London, is a conversational podcast where they explore all manner of issues affecting their lives, they discuss a lot about representation and inclusion, never afraid to call anyone out. In this takeover episode for Original Pilot Material the girls give us their experiences of 'inclusivity' and talk about what happens as a Muslim woman when you start seeing people like you being represented, but it still doesn’t feel quite right, and why they feel 'tick-box' inclusivity in the media and beyond doesn't really work. Th...
2019-09-2330 min
Three Pound Thirty Podcast14 - Do You Fancy Your Dad?! Climate Change & Saddam HusseinIn this week’s podcast, Asha, Reem and Sana discuss: 👨🏻Saddam Hussein 👪 Childhood trauma and fancying your parents ☁️Climate change and white people KEEP UP WITH THE US AND THE PODCAST ON INSTAGRAM 👇 @ThreePoundThirty | bit.ly/2UsObYl @Sanasiino | bit.ly/2VVbfKV @AshaEveryday | bit.ly/2K3pPhi Three Pound Thirty is a weekly topical podcast dissecting some of London's biggest social, cultural and political issues. With each host drawing from their unique backgrounds and experience, three pound thirty is a conversation that needs to be heard.
2019-07-1056 min
Dual Poetry PodcastBeloved by Asha Lul Mohamad YusufTranslated by Clare Pollard, Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’ and Said Jama Hussein.Beloved by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is a passionate love poem!It is a Baarcadde, one of the many Metric forms of Somali poetry made up of short lines.First, you will hear the stunning translation by UK poet Clare Pollard who captures the alliterating Bs of the original Somali and the sense of yearning with lines like 'be my new moon / unbreakable metal'.Afterwards, you can hear Asha reading the poem in the original Somali.This poem is from Asha Lul's first English Language collection published by Bloodaxe Book...
2019-06-1305 min
Dual Poetry PodcastA Shout by Asha Lul Mohamud YusufTranslated by Said Jama Hussein, Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’ and Clare Pollard.Welcome to our rebranded weekly release: the Dual Poetry Podcast, one poem in two languages from the Poetry Translation Centre. As ever we will be releasing a translated poem each week.
2019-02-0707 min
Dual Poetry PodcastRecollection by Asha Lul Mohamud YusufTranslated by Clare Pollard and Said Jama Hussein.This week's poem is 'Recollection' by the Somali poet Asha Luul Mohamud Yusuf. The poem is read first in English translation by Clare Pollard and then in Somali by Caasha herself.
2018-07-1904 min
Dual Poetry PodcastThe Mark by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf‘The Mark’ by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is addressed directly to the men ruling of Somalia / Somaliland, urging them to find peace, to bring clans together and to raise the country up.Translated by Said Jama Hussein & Maxamed Xasan ‘Alto’and Clare PollardAs with many of her poems, it begins with an intro about how Asha Lul hasn't recited for a while but now she must speak.The main body of the poem lays out her arguments.Finally, it ends with a summary asking God to bring about a better world that leaves the reader with a hopeful tone.First, you will...
2017-11-0207 min