Shurki Aden Camey, our mum, shares her experience of rebuilding the city of her youth, Mogadishu. In this episode we follow her journey from a student to a refugee to finally achieving her dreams of becoming an architect in Mogadishu, but with

The Architect – Somali version

Sep 28th, 2020 40m 43s

The Space Between Stories

Sep 21st, 2020 17m 29s

Mariam and Abira share their experiences of creating spaces to understand and preserve lost history. In this episode we cover the complications of logging history from countries that have been through war, and why nostalgia can sometimes get in

The Parts We Don’t Share

Sep 14th, 2020 24m 49s

Alice doesn’t want to be just one thing in your eyes, so she chooses carefully what parts of her story she will share. She knows and has experienced what sharing every detail of a painful story is like and has learned the hard way about why it’

The Tapes That Bind – Part 2

Sep 7th, 2020 18m 30s

Nuradin tells how letter tapes give him a connection to family that he will cherish forever. Nuradin shared letter tapes with his family when he first left home to stay in communication. But now, all these years later, the tapes mean even more

The Tapes That Bind – Part 1

Aug 31st, 2020 27m 17s

Nadifa Mohamed shows us the world that her family’s letter tapes have helped create. Letter tapes are cassette tapes recorded with messages from families and friends. In this episode, we discover how these tapes became a window into the world b

Trailer

Full series coming soon

Aug 25th, 2020 2m 6s

On Things We Left Behind – winner of Launchpod, the UK’s first podcast talent competition – is launching a full series shortly. The podcast explores the hidden afterlife of war, and confronts the realities of exile from a first-person perspecti

Pilot

Jun 30th, 2019 28m 33s

On Things We Left Behind is a story-driven podcast that explores the hidden afterlife of war. In what ways does leaving your country behind shape the life that you rebuild? That’s the question that the hosts, daughters of Somali refugees, seek