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There is currently a lively and very contentious debate in British society about how best to deal with the large numbers of undocumented migrants residing in the country. I met with Houratche Koundarjian from the Strangers Into Citizens campaign and Bethan Lant from Praxis Community Projects to discuss this salient topic.

As a second generation Irish immigrant in the UK I have always been very interested, proud and aware of my Irish heritage.  For this feature I spent two evenings with an inter-generational mix of my relatives discussing our personal and communal histories as well as looking at what it means to be Irish.

Documentary on Chinese Take Aways

Interview with a person fighting for the rights of Chinese people in the UK

Interview with the actress of Ghosts

Trainees from the PEARLS Radio Production and Presentation Course at Desi Radio in Southall, West London, explore the significance and traditions of Diwali for Hindus and Sikhs. Contributors: Manprit Dayal, Rashmi Varma, Rajinder Khabra and Aman Dhaliwal. 

Zak Brophy studied Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has travelled widely around the Middle East, including spending time as a volunteer for Unipal in a refugee camp in Lebanon. For Radio 1812, he talked to Cathy Aitchison about his experiences there and about how the people who he met influenced his own attitudes to life and travel.

Bernard Canavan is an artist and teacher of history at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith, West London. His paintings focus on the experiences of people who left Ireland in the 1950s and 60s to come to Britain in order to make a living. It's a world he knows well, as he himself came to London as a migrant in 1959. In this interview for Radio 1812 he talks to Richard Ellis about the experiences and influence of Irish migrants at the time, about his paintings and about his exhibition 'The Faithful Departed' at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.

www.refugeeradio.org.uk present an interview with a Zimbabwean refugee living in the UK