Talking with Tatchell on 18 Doughty Street

Continuing with my mini-project to provide easy links to programmes from the 18 Doughty Street archive, this article is a set of deep links to the “Talking with Tatchell” interviews.

These focus especially on Human Rights questions. Each of these interviews are roughly half an hour.
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List of Interviews for “Talking with Tatchell”

If you click on the link on the title of each programme, it should take you straight into the interview on the 18 Doughty Street website.

These links are MMS (Microsoft Media Server) links - so you need a program capable of understanding this format. Usually your web browser should launch an appropriate application automatically.

• Talking with Tatchell - Intro to Talking with Tatchell, 29-Jan-07.
  Iain Dale presents an introduction to Peter Tatchell’s weekly show examining human rights issues..
• Talking with Tatchell - Iraq’s descent into barbarism, 22-Jun-07.
  For ordinary Iraqis, everyday life is now worse than under Saddam Hussein. Talking with Tatchell features Ali Hili, Iraqi human rights activist.. For ordinary Iraqis, everyday life is now worse than under Saddam Hussein. The country is blighted by sectarian violence. Suicide bombings, assassinations and death squad killings are daily occurrences. Many of the killers are linked to leading parties in the western-backed Iraqi government, and are aided by Iran.
• Talking with Tatchell - Monarchy v Democracy, 15-Jun-07.
  Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay sets out the case for an elected head of state.. Monarchy is incompatible with democracy. Having a hereditary, royalist Head of State perpetuates elitism, snobbery and deference. It is steeped in misogyny, religious intolerance and, by default, racism. Is it time for a democratic republic?
• Talking with Tatchell - Russia’s War in Chechnya, 8-Jun-07.
  Ivar Amundsen, Director of the Chechnya Peace Forum, and Shamil Zakayev, Coordinator of the Chechen diaspora in the UK, discuss the on-going war and human rights abuses in Russian-occupied Chechnya in Talking with Tatchell.. In 1999, President Putin launched the send war in Chechnya. Since then, 100,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have been displaced. Both the United Nations and the Council of Europe have condemned the widespread use of torture by Russian forces and by the militia of the puppet President, Ramzan Kadyrov.
• Talking with Tatchell - Johann Hari on Multiculturalism, 1-Jun-07.
  The Columnist for The Independent appears on Talking with Tatchell to discuss his strong dislike for multiculturalism.. Hari speaks to Peter Tatchell about why he thinks multiculturalism is divisive, patronising, oppressive and often racist and why, In particular, it leads to a shameful betrayal of women’s rights.
• Talking with Tatchell - Sian Berry, Green candidate for London Mayor, 25-May-07.
  Sian Berry, Green candidate for London Mayor, critiques Ken Livingstone’s record and sets out her agenda for a green, affordable London in Talking With Tatchell.. Sian discusses river buses to transform the Thames River into the 14th ‘tube’ line; cuts in public transport fares to encourage people to leave their cars at home; more eco-friendly low-cost housing; and a massive tree-planting programme to soak up pollution and carbon, and to turn London into a garden city.
• Talking with Tatchell - Gordon Brown - The good, the bad, the ugly, 18-May-07.
  Suzanne Moore, feminist & Mail on Sunday columnist, questions Gordon Brown’s record over the last decade and whether he can beat off the challenge from David Cameron.. Can Brown now put clear blue water between himself and the Blair decade, and reinvent himself and Labour? Will the voters warm to the new touchy-feely, green-friendly Mr Brown? How will he square up to fresh-faced, smiley David Cameron?
• Talking with Tatchell - Women - Still the second sex?, 11-May-07.
  Talking with Tatchell features Julie Bindel, Founder of Justice for Women on the unfinished battle for women’s emancipation.. Shocking levels of domestic violence, sexual abuse and degrading imagery still blight the lives of millions of women, as well as fewer job opportunities, lower incomes and glass ceilings. Women’s liberation remains an aspiration, not a reality.
• Talking with Tatchell - John McDonnell MP, Labour Leadership Contender, 4-May-07.
  John McDonnell MP is the left-wing contender opposing Gordon Brown for the leadership of the Labour Party. He wants Labour to break with Blairism and Brownism.. In this edition of Talking with Tatchell, McDonnell sets out his agenda to reposition Labour as a modern, radical party of working people -based on the democratisation and redistribution of economic and political power.
• Talking with Tatchell - Why We Need to Stop the BNP, 26-Apr-07.
  Peter Tatchell speaks to Matthew Collins, Director of Searchlight’s Operation Wedge about the threat posed by the far-right party.. The far right is a menace to minority communities. Ex BNP-activist Matthew Collins reveals the inside truth about the BNP and explains how to defeat them.
• Talking with Tatchell - Zimbabwe - repression and resistance, 20-Apr-07.
  Zimbabwean students are in the forefront of the fight against President Mugabe’s tyranny. Peter Tatchell interviews Washington Katema, National Coordinator, Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU).. Talking with Tatchell is a show examining human rights, environmental and political issues around the world with Peter Tatchell
• Talking with Tatchell - British Democracy Isn’t Working, 13-Apr-07.
  Peter Tatchell tackles the faults in the way our political system works with Pam Giddy, Director of The Power Commission in Talking with Tatchell.. This programme looks at why public confidence and participation in politics is falling. Peter Tatchell and Pam Giddy also examine how the democratic process can be popularised and renewed.
• Talking with Tatchell - Medical Research Using Animals is Flawed, 5-Apr-07.
  Peter Tatchell examines the scientific flas with using animals for medical research in Talking with Tatchell. Guest is Dr Gill Langley from the Dr Hadwen Trust for Humane Research
• Talking with Tatchell - Human Rights in Iraq, 30-Mar-07.
  Peter Tatchell looks at the situation in Iraq in Talking with Tatchell. Guest is Nadia Mahmood of the Iraq Freedom Congress. Aired on the 30/03/07
• Talking with Tatchell - Concentrated Solar Power, 23-Mar-07.
  Peter Tatchell presents Talking with Tatchell with guest Neil Crumpton, Climate and Social campaigner for Friends of the Earth. According to its supporters, Concentrated Social Power is the new non-polluting, sustainable energy technology that can meet the world’s entire energy needs
• Talking with Tatchell - Iran - Popular resistance and the prospects for regime change from within, 16-Mar-07.
  Iran - Popular resistance and the prospects for regime change from within. This week Peter Tatchell interviews Maryam Namazie, Iranian broadcaster, feminist and communist.
• Talking with Tatchell - Russian suppression of human rights, 9-Mar-07.
  Peter Tatchell presents Talking with Tatchell. This week the topics is: Russian democracy is flawed and failing, as evidenced by the suppression of gay rights. Guests is Nikolai Alekseev, Russian gay human rights campaigner
• Talking with Tatchell - Are ID Cards a threat to civil liberties?, 2-Mar-07.
  Peter Tatchell presents Talking with Tatchell. Guest is Phil Booth, National Coordinator, No2ID.
• Talking with Tatchell - West Papuan Independence Movement, 22-Feb-07.
  Peter Tatchell presents his weekly half hour show Talking with Tatchell. After 40 years of Indonesian occupation, the people of West Papua are demanding independence. Guests are Benny Wenda: Chair, Koteka Tribal Assembly, West Papua, Maria Wenda: West Papuan independence rights activist and Richard Samuelson of the Free West Papua Campaign (UK)
• Talking with Tatchell - Is the Green Party replacing Labour on the Left?, 16-Feb-07.
  Derek Wall, principal speaker for the Green Party is the guest in this Talking with Tatchell. Presented by Peter Tatchell
• Talking with Tatchell - Rise of the religious right in the UK, 9-Feb-07.
  Peter Tatchell talks about the emergence of an influential and vociferous religious right in Britain with Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society. Peter Tatchell with Keith Porteous Wood
• Talking with Tatchell - Ugandan Human Rights, 1-Feb-07.
  In this first Talking With Tatchell show, Human Rights Campaigner Peter Tatchell talks to three Ugandan members of FDC-UK about the threats to democracy and freedom in the country. Presented by Peter Tatchell with guests Desmond Nzaana, Vice Chairman of FDC UK Chapter, Michael Senyonjo, Secretary for Mobilisation, FDC UK Chapter and Rosemary Buzabalyawo, Secretary of Finance and Events FDC UK Chapter

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