Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell
Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts
12 episodes
6 days ago
Send us a Message This episode is the first time we’ve asked each other “how are you?” Yes, we’ve checked. Here are two “rankings” for passports: the Henley Passport Index, which describes itself as “the only one of its kind based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA)” and the Global Passport Power Rank, which at the time of recording, ranked as “equal” passports issued by Canada, the UK, and Cyprus. Eagle-eyed listeners will note this has changed. ...
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Send us a Message This episode is the first time we’ve asked each other “how are you?” Yes, we’ve checked. Here are two “rankings” for passports: the Henley Passport Index, which describes itself as “the only one of its kind based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA)” and the Global Passport Power Rank, which at the time of recording, ranked as “equal” passports issued by Canada, the UK, and Cyprus. Eagle-eyed listeners will note this has changed. ...
Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell
38 minutes
11 months ago
Borders and Speculative Fiction
Send us a Message Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is available for purchase here, at your local independent bookstore, or check out your local library. It won the Booker Prize in 2023. (Read an article by Gillian about the Booker Prize.) Chair of the Booker Prize judges Esi Edugyan described it as "claustrophobic", while Lynch said it was "an attempt at radical empathy." We mentioned Métis author Cherie Dimaline's novels The Marrow Thieves (2017) and Hunting by Stars (2021). We referred to the...
Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell
Send us a Message This episode is the first time we’ve asked each other “how are you?” Yes, we’ve checked. Here are two “rankings” for passports: the Henley Passport Index, which describes itself as “the only one of its kind based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA)” and the Global Passport Power Rank, which at the time of recording, ranked as “equal” passports issued by Canada, the UK, and Cyprus. Eagle-eyed listeners will note this has changed. ...
