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Banned Voices
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Banned Voices is the podcast series of Banned Books, where Museum Director Joseph Dunnigan interviews guests who have been affected by literary censorship and free speech issues. Each series has a different theme, and you can listen to our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or PodBean!
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S2E4 – Wangpo Tethong, on Tibet
Wangpo Tethong is the Executive Director of the International Campaign for Tibet Europe. In this episode we discuss Tibet, the Chinese occupation of the region, ...
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S2E3 – Benedict Rogers, on Hong Kong
Benedict Rogers is the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Watch. In this episode we discuss the human rights situation in Hong Kong, the National Security ...
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S2E2 – Abduweli Ayup, on the Uyghur People
Abduweli Ayup is the Director of Research at the World Uyghur Congress. In this episode we discuss the ongoing genocide against his people, and the ...
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S2E1 – Enghebatu Togochong, on Southern Mongolia
Enghebatu Togochong is the director of the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center. In this episode we discuss the ongoing persecution of the Mongolian people ...
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S1E6 – Mohammed Almahfali, on Censorship in the Arabic Speaking World
Mohammed Almahfali, Ph.D, is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden. In this episode we discuss ...
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S1E5 – Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia, on their Free Speech Library
Ulrika Ahlberg and Jude Chukwuma Dibia work at the Dawitt Isaak Library in Malmö, Sweden, a library dedicated to authors who have been censored, repressed, ...
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S1E4 – Captain Roy D, on QAnon and Amazon De-listing
Denis Poljakov is the owner of Russow Galerii in Tallinn, Estonia. He talks about his lifelong business in books, including his experiences smuggling contraband books ...
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S1E3 – Denis Poljakov, Bookseller, on Smuggling Books Across the Russian Border
The third episode of our podcast, Banned Voices is available now! Guest Denis Poljakov is the owner of Russow Galerii in Tallinn, Estonia. He talks ...
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S1E2 – Edwin Giltay, Whistleblower, on the Bosnian War and a Dutch Cover-up
The second episode of Banned Voices is available now! Our guest is Dutch author Edwin Giltay, who discusses his 2014 book “De Doofpotgeneraal” and the ...
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S1E1 – Santa Remere on the Consequences of Inspiring Girls
The first episode of our bi-weekly podcast series Banned Voices is available now! Our first guest is Latvian author Santa Remere, who discusses her 2020 ...
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