On January 10th this year Near FM’s Under the Sun program broadcast an interview with Peter Hallward, the author of Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment to coincide with the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake which is estimated to have affected three million people, killing 316,000 and leaving 300,000 injured [...]

Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer also has a regular radio show Behind the News on WBAI, New York, covering economics and politics which is always worth checking out. The podcasts are archived on the LBO site, but ILR readers might be particularly interested in the latest one, from the 23rd of October, which includes [...]

For ILR’s first podcast, we interviewed the leading progressive criminologist Dr. Paul O’Mahony. The interview covered a range of topics including the way in which the popular media shapes public perceptions of - and political reactions to - crime, and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of legislation introduced in the wake of journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder [...]