Down, Not Out S2 Ep2: Foreign Nationals and Homelessness
Update: 2023-11-28
Description
1 in 7 adults in prison were experiencing homelessness before entering custody, and fewer than half of people released from prison last year had settled accommodation on release. But what if you’re living in another country from where you were born and things start going wrong?
Phil and Paula have teamed up with the Orwell Foundation and the Centre for Homelessness Impact to bring you another three-part series looking at the intertwined issues of homelessness, social deprivation, crime and justice.
Down, Not Out is the companion podcast to The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness 2024.
Host Paddy O'Connell, who is a friend of The Prison Radio Association and is also a judge of the new prize, talks to experts and people who've experienced homelessness, to get a better idea of the scale of the problem and how it might be solved.
Episode 2 gets into some of the gritty issues around homelessness, and contains compelling stories, looking at what it’s like to be away from your home country AND without a home to live in; that’s Foreign Nationals and Homelessness.
Secret Life of Prisons
Presenters: Paula Harriott and Phil Maguire
Producer: Andrew Wilkie
Producer: Andrew Wilkie
Orwell Foundation
Host: Paddy O'Connell
Editor and Producer: Alex Grundon
Host: Paddy O'Connell
Editor and Producer: Alex Grundon
Producer: Michelle Featherstone
Executive Producer: Liz Wallace
Executive Producer: Liz Wallace
Contributors
Stephen Armstrong, journalist, writer, trustee of The Orwell Foundation and author of The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited.
Patrick, a French national who came to the UK but lost his identity papers and experienced homelessness after 30 years of having a home here.
Bridget Young, Director of 'NACCOM - THE NO ACCOMMODATION NETWORK - an organisation that helps people who come to the UK from abroad who find themselves homeless.
With special and heartfelt thanks to Richard Blair, George Orwell’s son, for narrating an extract of his dad’s book for the podcast.
The Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness is open for entries until 31 March 2024.
Entry details are available here: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-prizes/about/about-the-prizes/reporting-homelessness/
You can also enter by post. The address is The Orwell Foundation, IAS, University College London, WC1E 6BT. Please include a contact number or email address for someone who can reach you, if you can.
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