Radical Museums
We’ve been exploring what radical practice and activism means for museums for a number of years. We know that museums can make a positive difference to people’s lives, and throughout this podcast series Sharon Heal and Simon Stephens from the Museums Association travel across the UK to talk to museum activists and those that are striving for and driving change.
Episodes
13 episodes
E-J Scott
MA head of publications and events Simon Stephens travels to south London to interview curator, cultural producer and academic E-J Scott, who founded the Museum of Transology in 2014.E-J’s work focuses on enabling communities who may tra...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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33:09
William Mitchell
Sharon Heal visits Belfast to meet William Mitchell, the project director for the Action for Community Transformation (ACT) Initiative, which is dedicated to supporting former political prisoners and empowering those categorised as former comba...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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33:06
Season 3 teaser
Sharon Heal, the director of the Museums Association and Simon Stephens, the head of publications and events at the MA, introduce the third season of the Radical Museums Podcast.
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Season 3
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1:16
Season 1 teaser
Sharon Heal, the director of the Museums Association and Simon Stephens, the head of publications and events at the MA, introduce the first season of the Radical Museums podcast.
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Season 1
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2:07
Reimagine, Remake, Replay
Simon Stephens travels to Ulster Museum in Belfast to meet the team at Reimagine, Remake, Replay, a youth engagement project in Northern Ireland.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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43:19
Zandra Yeaman
Sharon Heal visits Glasgow to meet Zandra Yeaman, the curator of discomfort at the Hunterian Museum.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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25:59
Nasir Adam
Simon Stephens visits St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff to meet Nasir Adam, the curator of black history at Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:40
Victoria Ryves
In the first episode of Radical Museums, Sharon Heal travels to South Yorkshire to meet Victoria Ryves, Doncaster Culture Services' learning and community development manager.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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28:41
Agrippa Njanina
Sharon Heal, the director of the Museums Association, travels to Belfast to meet Agrippa Njanina, a community engagement officer at National Museums Northern Ireland.Agrippa has more than 15 years of experience in the non-profit, educat...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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36:54
John Kenneth Paranada
Simon Stephens, the head of publications and events at the Museums Association, meets John Kenneth Paranada, the inaugural curator of art and climate change at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia.Paranada is a British-Filipi...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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37:24
Jane Henderson
Sharon Heal, the director of the Museums Association, meets Jane Henderson, a professor of conservation at Cardiff University, for our Radical Museums podcast.Jane is a long-standing activist and has recently campaigned successfully aga...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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40:40
