Borderscapes

The BORDERS between online and offline are blurred. We see perfection on social media and it's more than a filter – it's surgery. Whether we scroll the feed or stroll the streets – the looks glamourized by magazines make us feel like Plain Jane and Basic Betsy. The expectation that we MUST serve chiseled faces and snatched waists exist and not even a first-time mother is spared. This episode will...

The online world still represents a mystery for many of us. There is so much information out there that it is physically impossible for one to ever be able to intake it all. In a world where you have the knowledge of everything at the touch of a screen, how does one decide what to focus on? Are we getting further and further from each other by being connected at all times? Is online learning the w...

In recent times, media attention has been focused on the growing number of black majority churches in the UK. While church attendance in monocultural British churches is on the decline, African churches on the other hand are 'booming'—to paraphrase a photo essay published in the UK Guardian of February 2019 titled "African churches boom in London's backstreets". The episode describes how Black-maj...

Much of the world has been brought to a complete standstill as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to spread. The deadly respiratory virus has so far infected over three million with numbers growing every day. To slow the spread and flatten the exponential curve, many of us, most of us have been in or are in some sort of lockdown in our respective countries. This has meant shutting out loved ones,...

Coming on May 21, the anthology series, Borderscapes, explores the real and artificial boundaries surrounding our lives. For some, they are thought of as gateways to our conscious, virtual, and existential selves. For others, they appear as a challenging barrier to be overcome. Our producers profile those directly affected to understand the depth of these borders.

A podcast series about BORDERS.  Launching in May 2020, the series will contain a range of innovative and creative documentary, investigative and essay episodes about crossing and maintaining borders and boundaries of all kinds.  The concept of borders has been a flashpoint in nearly every major field of interest over the past decade.  From the nationalist movements and migration crises of geopoli...