Sergio Maggiolo is a performer, director and theatre-maker from Peru who has lived in the UK for 10 years. Over a bottle of wine on a sunny evening in May, we got into themes such as being a Peruvian soap opera star, the early days of Grinder w

2.6 Tawona Sitholé: My Uncle and Ambition Brought Me Here

Jul 25th, 2022 25m 13s

Tawona Sitholé, like a lot of artists, does many things. Better known as Ganyamatope (his ancestral family name), he is a poet, playwright, storyteller and musician. He was born in Zimbabwe just before independence and moved to the UK aged 21.

2.5 Leena Nammari: Unapologetically Palestinian

Jul 18th, 2022 39m 16s

Leena Nammari is a Palestinian artist printmaker based in Scotland. Her work has been part of group and solo exhibitions within Scotland and in Europe more widely. Leena’s installation, It Will Live can be seen on the façade of the Studio venue

2.4 Madison Nonoa: You Can Choose To Get Back On The Horse

Jul 11th, 2022 39m 5s

Madison Nonoa is an opera singer. She was born and bred in New Zealand and made the big move to the UK in 2017 to complete a degree in opera at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is based in the UK and performs around the wo

2.3 Mavin Khoo: Just Call Me An Artist

Jul 4th, 2022 47m 34s

Mavin Khoo is a dancer and coach. He was born in Malaysia and moved between there and India from the age of 10-17. After a short stint in New York, he landed in the UK aged 18. His career has taken him all over the world. He is currently an Ass

2.2 Akeim Toussaint Buck: Be the one who is in the room the longest

Jun 27th, 2022 36m 28s

Akeim Toussaint Buck is an interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. We talked about the good times, the not so good times, the rocky road to British citizenship and how dance became Akeim’s survival tool. Hi

2.1. mandla rae: Expressing rage with fruit

Jun 20th, 2022 29m 30s

mandla rae is writer, performer and occasional curator, who was born in Zimbabwe, moved to South Africa aged 2 and came to the UK aged 7. We talked about rage, feeling out of place and talking to strangers in Manchester. Their solo show, as bri

1.11. Raph Dilhan: I Want To Win This Thing

Sep 9th, 2021 32m 59s

Raph Dilhan is a textile artist working in the film industry who was born and raised in France and now lives in London. Many of you will know him as a finalist in Season 7 of the Great British Sewing Bee, in which he consistently wowed the judg

1.10. Lisa Caruccio Came: Citizen of the World

Sep 2nd, 2021 23m 50s

Lisa is an actor who was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Brazil, Italy, Canada, the United States and the UK. She has worked with my theatre company ice&fire and we live in the same area of Hackney in London. We chatted about being perceived

1.9. Maryna Sulym: You Can Get Out Of Your Box Here

Aug 26th, 2021 24m 50s

Maryna Sulym is originally from Ukraine and moved to London six years ago. She is completing a Masters in Photojournalism and runs the Local Foreigners project recording stories, images, and experiences of immigrants in the UK. We talked about

1.8. Agnes Harding: I Am Reminded Often That I Am Still An Immigrant

Aug 19th, 2021 35m 13s

Agnes is 23 years old and recently completed a Physics degree at Manchester University. She is from Gambia and has lived in the UK since she was 4. We talk about Gambia’s weird borders, growing up in Dagenham when the British National Party had

1.7. Nicolas Hatton: I Felt Like Someone Had Died in the Family

Aug 12th, 2021 31m 20s

Nicholas Hatton was born in France and now lives in Bristol. He is the CEO of the 3million – the largest campaign organisation for EU citizens in the UK, which he was instrumental in founding after the 2016 Brexit referendum We talked over zoom

1.6. Amber Murrey: So I Sent Out A Tweet

Aug 5th, 2021 34m 14s

Dr Amber Murrey is a professor in Human Geography at Oxford University and is originally from the USA. Amber’s wide-ranging and fascinating work focuses largely on resistance and social change in Africa (links below). We spoke about growing up

1.5. Babou Ceesay : The Monster and I Are Now One

Jul 29th, 2021 39m 11s

Babou Ceesay is a BAFTA-nominated actor from Gambia. You may have seen him in BBC film Damiola, Our Loved Boy or the Star Wars film Rogue One, or Guerilla, the TV mini-series about British black power movements. He plays the lead in an upcoming

1.4. Meltem Avcil : And So I Stood Up

Jul 22nd, 2021 32m 41s

Meltem is 28 years old, a social entrepreneur and award-winning campaigner, and she lives in Cambridge with her partner and one year old son. Originally from the Kurdish part Turkey she and her mother fled to seek asylum in Europe when Meltem w

1.3. Francisco Gomez : The Only Immigrant in the Village

Jul 15th, 2021 30m 54s

Francisco Gomez is a veterinary surgeon from Spain who lives in a small town in Derbyshire. He came to the UK in the early 2000s thinking, like many of us do: I’ll stay six months or so, do a bit of travelling, have a little adventure. But life

1.2. Lucian Msamati : This is London, people. London!

Jul 8th, 2021 32m 14s

Lucian Msamati is an actor who grew up in Tanzania and Zimbabwe and has lived in London since his early 20s. He has worked extensively in theatre, TV and film (Game of Thrones, His Dark Materials, Gangs of London). I saw him most recently in a

1.1. Siobhán McSweeney : The London-Irish Experience

Jul 1st, 2021 22m 8s

Siobhán McSweeney is an actor from County Cork, Ireland, who now lives in London. She is perhaps best known as Sister Michael in Channel 4’s Derry Girls and more recently as the host on The Great Pottery Throw Down. We had a lovely chat about t

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Jun 9th, 2021 2m 21s

Welcome to I am an Immigrant – a podcast series where I talk with people who used to live somewhere else and now live here, in the UK. I'm Christine Bacon, an Australian of Irish descent who moved here 15 years ago. Most of us have a picture in

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