Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, a podcast about migrants and crises. To begin the show, we look at some of the context shaping the appalling treatment of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar and neighbouring countries. South Asia Director of

German Election Special

Sep 21st, 2017 36m 29s

On this special episode of the Migrant Crisis Podcast, regulars Mike Meehall Wood, Sophie Pornschlegel and a special guest, political journalist extraordinaire Jon Worth discuss the upcoming elections in Germany; where the parties stand on immi

So it's come to this: a clip show.

Aug 15th, 2017

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, produced by Frey Lindsay, Sophie Pornschlegel and Mike Meehall Wood. This episode is a clip show, as we feel we've done enough original shows to earn it and also Mike has to move flat. We're looking back o

June 19th: Blowback

Aug 15th, 2017

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, our second election and terrorism episode in a row. This time round, Northern Ireland correspondent Mike Meehall Wood explains to us the Democratic Unionist Party and why the English Tories have made an al

June 5th: UK Election Special

Aug 15th, 2017

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, this week reporting live on the frontlines of the UK General Election, pre-recorded from a room in East Berlin. On this episode, Mike Meehall Wood and Sophie Pornschlegel look at the terror attacks in Engl

May 15th: Play the game.

Aug 6th, 2017

On this episode, Mike Meehall Wood travels to the border between Serbia and Hungary to see up close the flow of migration from one direction and the violence from the other. While there, he speaks with Dan Song of the volunteer group Fresh Resp

So it's come to this: a clip show.

Jul 19th, 2017 45m 19s

June 19th: Blowback

Jun 20th, 2017 36m 54s

June 5th: UK Election Special

Jun 6th, 2017 31m 23s

May 15th: Play the game.

May 16th, 2017 36m 1s

April 24th: Bonne chance.

Apr 26th, 2017 33m 1s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, a show for people who want to learn more about the causes and effects of migration. On this episode: -Frey Lindsay and Sophie Pornschlegel discuss the French elections and which candidate is the least wor

April 10th: The protracted nature of crisis.

Apr 10th, 2017 34m 38s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, a show that tries to look deeper into the causes and effects of migration without being too dull. To that end, this is the second of a two-part series looking at: the worsening famine in South Sudan, the m

March 27th: Famine is a catalyst for war. War is a catalyst for famine.

Mar 30th, 2017 32m 50s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, a podcast about the Migrant Crisis, with Sophie Pornschlegel, Mike Meehall Wood and Frey Lindsay. On this episode, we're forgoing the noise of Trump, Tories and Brexit and focussing instead on some less-ex

March 13th: Leveraging fear.

Mar 14th, 2017 30m 31s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, a show normally hosted by three people, today hosted by one. This episode is brought to you by Transfergo. On this episode, Frey Lindsay speaks to Lord Alfred Dubs about the halt of the Dubs amendment (whi

February 28th: Glad to know you're, you know, alive.

Feb 28th, 2017 47m 49s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, with Sophie Pornschlegel, Mike Meehall Wood, and Frey Lindsay. This episode is brought to you by Transfergo. www.transfergo.com/en We've a lot to get through this hour, so let's not mess about. On this epi

February 16: It's about the life they want. (The LGBT episode)

Feb 16th, 2017 26m 41s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, a show about diversity made by three straight white people. This episode is brought to you by Transfergo. https://www.transfergo.com/en It's LGBT history month, and to celebrate we are bringing you some of

January 30: The Undocumented Struggle

Jan 30th, 2017 47m 54s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, an attempt to make sense of the eminently sense-unmakeable, hosted by Mike Meehall Wood, Sophie Pornschlegel and Frey Lindsay. This episode is brought to you in partnership with TransferGo. This week, of c

Extra: Hello 2017, please be nice.

Jan 17th, 2017 18m 55s

It's 2017, and oh look, the migrant crisis is still going. On this short episode, Mike Meehall Wood, Sophie Pornschlegel and Frey Lindsay discuss what this year has in store for refugees and migration. Things to look out for include: The contin

Episode 26: Hope kind of leaves you.

Dec 19th, 2016 40m 16s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, an exercise in people slowly learning about the crisis while pretending to be authorities on it. On this episode; - Australia has an appalling refugee policy. Resident Australian Frey Lindsay has just retu

Episode 25: There is nothing, only death.

Nov 5th, 2016 36m 36s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, an attempt to turn totally uninformed opinions into just mostly uninformed opinions. On this episode, alternatively titled "Episode 25: Better late than never?"; - Mike Meehall Wood and Frey Lindsay discus

Episode 24: Everybody wants to leave, but they can’t.

Oct 6th, 2016 42m 11s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, the show that thinks it can help an international humanitarian tragedy with politics degrees and Simpsons quotes. As ever, our hosts are journalists Sophie Pornschlegel, Mike Meehall Wood and Frey Lindsay.

Episode 23 - We were hoping to have a better life, but now we are in Nauru.

Sep 5th, 2016 35m 22s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, the show that explores migration, war, and culture and frames it all through political analysis and Simpsons jokes. On this Episode: - We take our first look at the horrors of the Nauru detention facilitie

Episode 22 - People are dying every day, every minute, because of us.

Aug 18th, 2016 49m 32s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, the show that explores migration, war, culture, and politics and frames it all through analysis, swearing and Simpsons jokes. On this Episode: - Sophie, Frey and Mike discuss police militarisation in Londo

Episode 21 - The Five Walls.

Jul 27th, 2016 50m 16s

Welcome to the Migrant Crisis Podcast, the show that explores migration, war, culture, and politics and frames it all through analysis, swearing and Simpsons jokes. On this episode; - Sophie Pornschlegel explains the formation of the latest neo

Episode 20 - In which Farage is compared to bin Laden.

Jul 11th, 2016 50m 22s

On this episode; Sophie, Frey, and Mike discuss some potential silver linings of Brexit, (bit of a stretch, to be fair). We then look at a rise in post-Brexit hate crimes in the UK, in particular an attack at the Polish Social and Cultural Asso