Working in various parts of Africa and Bangladesh made the young Julien Verzier – a former firefighter from Lyon – fascinated by migration, the movement of those inflicted by injustice. Tony Corballis, on today’s Chat That Matters, listens to Julien trace parts of his short life story via a hair-raising three-man-bicycle trip from Bangkok to Bali without money […]
There may be a few tut-tutting doctors and defiant mums and dads when we suggest their severely autistic child could make serious strides in connecting with others simply by means of an old horse and a velcro saddle and some very clever tricks. Oh and an expert of course, to facilitate. Like an empathetic young Argentine from Cordoba, the […]
It really felt like I was interviewing Noam Chomsky – he was so lucid on power-play in the Middle East. Germany’s young former music radio show host nicknamed ‘Moustache Ali’ is in fact a mega-credentialed and powerful activist voice in the Peace Movement: Ali Fathollah Nejad, born in Iran. He throws light on the multipolar […]
Don’t jump to conclusions about this sweet-voiced girl from a remote Mongolian village of sheep herders. She is in fact an incredible brightspark having written speeches for presidents and prime ministers at the age of 20. She has lived in India, New Zealand and Switzerland, and will be a diplomat some day. How did she […]
It will be an electric half-hour of your time listening to Lukáš Likavčan, a young thinker running off from Central Europe, eastbound to Istanbul’s most socially radical higher education institution, to challenge our thinking on economics through looking at it anthropologically. With Tony Corballis for the Chat That Matters, Lukáš gallops us through his eco-warrior life, hitch-hiking […]
She’s a young Italian, far away in Myanmar, working with farming communities and government to ensure food security. But it’s sometimes a lonely life bouncing from such jobs in the likes of Angola and Guatemala to Myanmar, and while wonderfully exotic to the outsider, these countries present their own difficulties. And great joys. Tony Corballis […]
Why do people thrive on gathering to dance en-masse? Why are there so few women DJs? What influences made electronic dance music branch out into esoteric sub-genre, and what exactly are the likes of dub-step, jungle and psytrance. A young Bristol-born DJ, Anton Desai-Paulden, is a half-Indian and Goa-frequenting thinker and commentator on musicology and […]
Listen in for 45 minutes of pure joy, with one of the most fascinating young women you shall ever meet. Mary Mesteller has both been and lived with “The Other” … in Peru, the Caribbean, Montana Indian reservations, Indonesia, and now Hackney in her canal boat. And in this Chat That Matters, she tells Tony Corballis […]
Anal distress? Problems with your rectum, sphincter or colon can be deftly resolved by the expert, delicate fingers of a bright young specialist African-Spanish surgeon in the Basque country. Tony Corballis brings you this Christmas-day Chat That Matters from La Rioja and the tale begins decades ago: a Basque-Navarran monk dumps the Catholic church to go […]
What happens when the kids of Hungarian emigrants in Slovakia under communism, carving and engraving gravestones in cemeteries, produce a son whose first glimpses of life were anti-regime street demonstrations, and later the tranquility of graveyards? The son becomes a philosopher of course. In today’s Chat That Matters, Tony Corballis is in Brno talking with […]
Boozing, hazing, violence and mysogeny. Is this rugby culture? On this Chat That Matters, a young rubgy player Tom Kavanagh chats with Tony Corballis about the New Zealand culture of the sport and its associated hypermasculinity, taking a courageous stand on prodding the silent majority to communicate, but at the same time shattering our misconceptions […]
Mediterranean Ibiza is perhaps the world’s hottest music and fun melting-pot, but it also has untrodden beauty, aesthetes and mind-body practitioners across its remotest corners. Tony Corballis chats with local acupuncturist Ross Stephenson (one of the truest Buddhists you’ll meet) on his life, experiences, communication with patients, medical practice and beliefs.
Brace yourself for an intriguing chat, exploring an amazing individual’s multi-identity life and exploration of passions including history, photography and social media, all related to his life, opinions and politics. Listen to Tony Corballis talk with Daniel Stern on this Chat That Matters, moments before this Scotsman escapes England to live in Israel.
Think of Hamas and Israel. Whose truth have we been hearing? What is truth? Young media expert and commentator Gareth Bentley chats with amazing humility about his recent work on journalistic representation, such as in contentious conflict situations like war zones. In today’s Chat That Matters, Tony Corballis interviews Gareth Bentley in London’s Richmond, on his […]
Hear Tony Corballis introducing our new series of conversations: The series prologue.