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Trojans UK 22 Playground Theatre K+C Festival August 2022

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WHY AM I IN YOUR COUNTRY?

Why Am I In Your Country? is being launched through the Mail on Sunday on 11th February 2024 in You Magazine with an interview with Arwa and Jonathan about finding love in a homeless shelter.

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LISTEN ON SPOTIFY 

https://open.spotify.com/show/1piy1cl2w9pabFUW3lqJbr

 

LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/why-am-i-in-your-country/id1730013397

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The latest project from the Trojan Women Project, a combined psycho-social support and drama project for refugees, Why Am In Your Country? allows refugees and asylum seekers to tell their stories directly to the host audience, in a powerful and compelling manner.

 

Working with refugees and asylum seekers who are part of their regular drama psycho-social support workshops, currently running at the Chelsea Theatre, Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling are creating a ten episode pilot project of the podcast to be launched in February 2024.

 

The latest project from the Trojan Women Project, a combined psycho-social support and drama project for refugees, Why Am In Your Country allows refugees and asylum seekers to tell their stories directly to the host audience, in a powerful and compelling manner.

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Working with refugees and asylum seekers who are part of their regular drama psycho-social support workshops, currently running at the Chelsea Theatre, Charlotte Eagar and William Stirling are creating a ten episode pilot project of the podcast to be launched in February 2024.

 

Refugees and migrants are key issues in the UK today. We hear daily on the news about asylum seekers coming to the UK illegally. Yet why are they here? What has driven them to leave their homes and risk their lives to start again in a strange country.

 

In Why Am I In Your Country? Each 30 minute episode will consist of a conversation with one refugee/migrant/asylum seeker about what has driven them to come here to the UK, and what they feel about living here.

 

The point of the podcast is to magnify the reach of our participants’ stories – podcasts can literally be heard all over the world.

 

We are doing a pilot project with ten participants who have been in our current and previous projects, some of whom came here legally as refugees and some came as asylum seekers:

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The Syrian actress

The Afghan Lawyer

The Syrian businessman

The Ukrainian poet

The Iranian lawyers etc

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We are working with the platform ACAST and a highly experienced ex BBC Radio 4 producer/editor.

 

We have also received advice from various audio professionals, including a podcast producer at Times Radio, a presenter of BBC PM, the presenters of several successful podcasts, and a highly experienced Swiss Radio International journalist, all of whom are very enthusiastic about the project. The sound recordist is a refugee.

 

Our budget to record 10 pilot episodes, including start-up costs, marketing, evaluation, etc. is £20k, of which we already have £10k. Anything towards the shortfall would be very gratefully received.

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For any queries, please contact Charlotte Eagar

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Charlotte.eagar@trojanwomenproject.org

+ 44 7769 603233

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