The Cambridge Student Podcast
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At TCS we are committed to providing a free and inclusive platform for students to have their voices heard. We'll be bringing you interviews, discussions and debates on a range of topics, covering both local and global issues, as well as exploring student projects.
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Season 2
Women’s Football: Cambridge United and Cambridge City F.C.
In this episode, TCS podcaster Scotia Smith explores the empowerment and prejudices of women's football.
In the first half of the episode she is joined by the manager of Cambridge United's women's team, Darren Marjoram, who talks about his motivations for coaching women's football, the history of the team, and the disparity between men's and women's football on an economic level.
In the second half of the episode (38:00 onwards), Scotia talks to two members of the reserve team for Cambridge City women's F.C, who talk about their love for the sport as well as some of the difficulties they have personally encountered. This episode is an eye-opening investigation into the work that still needs to be done to elevate women's football to the level of men's, and hopefully will encourage more people to invest in women's sport.
Celebrating Student Film: The Watersprite Film Festival
In this episode, TCS Podcaster Scotia Smith speaks to Zeb Goriely, the director of Watersprite Film Festival 2024. Zeb talks about the history of the festival, the introduction of new access schemes, and what to expect from Watersprite in the future. Watersprite is running from 1-3 March 2024.
Voices of MUSE
This episode spotlights some of the pieces of student writing from the upcoming TCS creative zine, MUSE, under the theme of 'home'. The featured writers discuss the inspiration behind their work and what 'home' means to them.
Homelessness in Cambridge
In this episode, TCS podcaster Erica Lees-Smith talks to Matt and Chris from It Takes a City, an organisation which aims to tackle homelessness in Cambridge.
Matt and Chris discuss the misconceptions around homelessness, the importance of education and treating each case with empathy and care. They also highlight the practical steps that students can take to help end rough sleeping, both on an individual level and through their colleges.
This is such an important episode which sheds light on a problem which can often be hidden, but is also a hopeful indication of the compassionate community work which is already in place around the city.
Investigating the Black Atlantic, with Shea Hendry and Darold Cuba
In this episode, TCS podcaster Scotia Smith explores the Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, on display until January 7 2024.
The first half of the episode is in conversation with Shea Hendry, discussing how the exhibition interrogates the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and who is afforded the power to shape how history remembers them.
The second half of the episode (23:23) is in conversation with Darold Cuba, who explores the University of Cambridge's ties to slavery and abolition, the intersections of race and class, and the systemic work that remains to be done to dismantle the legacies of white supremacy both within the university and beyond.
Gender Agenda: Arts, Politics & Intersectional Feminism
In the first long-form episode of this season, TCS Podcast producer Miranda Crawford sits down with the committee members of Gender Agenda, the SU Women's Campaign zine. In this open and informal conversation, the committee members discuss the importance of art as a space for politicised feminist discourse. The second part of the episode (from 18.00 onwards) focuses on TCS opinion writer Madeleine Baber's recent article '(Medical) Neglect of the Female: A Manifesto for New Intersectionalism', discussing the necessity to consider the neglect and stigma that continues to surround the female sex.
DOCUMENTARY
Sylvia Han documented the strikes over the few weeks in Cambridge, including the TCS podcast interviewing striking university staff members in her short documentary
Check out our Podcast about the Strikes!
Season 1
CULTURE
Brexit & Brits Abroad: Part I and II
TCS Podcaster Lara Zand speaks to Polly Haythornthwaite about her new shows on Cam FM. TCS Audio-Visual Editor Madeleine Anderson speaks to new columnist Kitty Ford about her latest piece on queerness in Cambridge. Lara then speaks to Leanne Tyme about facing post-Brexit complications on her year abroad in Spain. Finally, Bella Cross shares her latest TCS article on working-class participation in the arts.
TCS Podcaster Lara Zand speaks to Kasia Pendlebury about funding a year abroad following Brexit and TCS Culture Co-Editor Matilda Sidel reads from her now published series, linking chivalric romance with her favourite music of the 1980s.
Studying in Russia at the Start of the War: Part I and II
Our columnist Ralph Jeffreys shares his latest article on the importance of community. Lara Zand, TCS Podcaster, talks to Sofia Johanson about her disrupted year abroad moving between San Sebastián, St Petersburg and Barcelona. Laleh Bergman Hossain (Majlis President) and Zak Ali (Archives Officer) speak about the Majlis society and its plans for the term.
Our Culture Co-Editors, Matilda Sidel and Tommy Gilhooly, introduce their latest articles on headphones and the Kings Road. Madeleine Anderson, TCS Audio-Visual Editor, talks to Tilda Butterworth about her disrupted year abroad moving between St Petersburg, Montpellier, and Tbilisi.
NEWS
News Episode 2: TCS Audio Visual team members Donya Jeyabalasingham and Izzie Pyle speak to Nurses striking at Addenbrooke's Hospital, and discuss the largest RCN strike action to date as the government continues to dismiss efforts to negotiate.
News Episode 3: Madeleine Anderson, TCS Audio Visual Editor, speaks to Professor Sian Lazar about her experience of striking. Professor Lazar's book 'How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour' is available now, and can be purchased here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347516/how-we-struggle. More information about striking and the recent pause in industrial action is available on the UCU website: https://www.ucu.org.uk.
News Episode 4: TCS Podcaster Lara Zand speaks to Kasia Pendlebury about funding a year Izzie Pyle, Audio-Visual team member, speaks to Dr Farhana Rahman about the Rohingya refugee crisis focusing on the experiences of women. Dr Rahman is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, as well as a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge. Dr Rahman's upcoming book will focus on how the the gendered subjectivities and lived experiences of Rohingya refugee women. Dr Rahman is also co-founder of Silkpath Relief Organization, a non-profit providing humanitarian assistance to individuals devastated by calamities. Found here: silkpathrelief.org
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