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This week we spoke to the Cardiff UCU strikers taking industrial action over: pay, pensions, equality and workloads.

In this episode we spoke to the fantastic, Cardiff based arts organisation, NewCELF! NewCELF are an organisation which aims to put on multi-disciplinary arts events for the promotion of Cardiff-based artists. A secondary goal is to remove distance between constituents of the arts varied mediumsthe blurring the boundaries of individual schools of art The Arts represent an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture.  As such, the arts are a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.  Major constituents of the arts include literature – including poetry, novels and short stories, and epics; performing arts – among them music, dance, and theatre; media arts like photography and film, and visual arts – including drawing, painting, and sculpting.

This week we were joined by artist and activist, Rabab Ghazoul from Gentle Radical. Gentle/Radical is a grassroots cultural organisation and platform for radical thinking, creative practice and social change. We spoke to Rabab about: - Rabab's work in the arts and what inspired her?  - Who Gentle Radical are and what they aim to do?  - Why Gentle Radical is important for the Welsh arts scene?  - Anti-Oppressive discourses in the UK arts, whether this discourses are sincere?  - Where Rabab draws her inspiration from?  - What Rabab's utopia would look like?   *This podcast was recorded in Gentileza (Duke St Arcade, Cardiff)  https://www.facebook.com/GentilezaCDF/

*EXPLICIT* This week we were joined by sports journalist Andrew Deering, who spoke to us about "the" rugby and the current Rugby World Cup.  We spoke about  - The history of the Welsh rugby team  - Why rugby is so important in the Welsh historical imagination  - The current Welsh squad  - What the Wales v France game means for the Wales team going forwards

This week we were joined by Dr Hade Turkmen to discuss her research into 'Barriers to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) women participating in the economy'. If you would like to read more about Hade research, follow this link: https://chwaraeteg.com/research/triple-glazed-ceiling/ If you would like to hear more about Chwarae Teg, follow this link: https://chwaraeteg.com/