The set list from Fatuma Khaireh’s event, co-curated with Talia Augustidis from In The Dark and Kenji Maghoma from the LAGO Collective, on the theme of “In Transit”, a collection of big and small stories around movement. A huge thank you to the LAGO Collective for making this event possible.
The Prepack (2025)
The first step of moving anywhere, usually involves… packing.
The Prepack was produced by Lori Mortimer.
Tunnel Vision (2012)
Travel can get monotonous, which makes it the perfect time for one’s mind — and sometimes even eyes — to wander…
Tunnel Vision was produced by Pejk Malinovski, with Falling Tree, for the first ever season of Short Cuts.
Drive Straight Ahead (2015)
We will often, fleetingly, move past and through places significant to us, without even realising…
Drive Straight Ahead was produced by Mira Burtwintonic, Crystal Duhaime and Jonathan Goldstein for CBC’s Wiretap in 2015.
Baggage Claim (2018)
When you’re part of the diaspora, your bag is never entirely your own.
Baggage Claim was written and performed in 2018 by Belal Mobarak, for The Moth, a live storytelling event and podcast.
Windows: David (2025)
This piece is about both small and bigA movements, from compounds in Itere in Lagos, Nigeria to courtyards in Herne Hill, and the people within them searching for community and belonging.
It was produced by Ivan D’Avoine and Derick Armah with Transmission Roundhouse. The interviewee is scientist and writer David Adebiyi.
DRC’s Dilemma (2025)
For those who have lived between places, between languages, between versions of history, the headlines don’t capture half of it.
A poem written and read by Kenji Maghoma.
The Travelling People (1964)
A documentary on the UK Gypsy and Traveller communities, made from over 300 hours of interviews, adapted and combined with specially written folk music as part of The Radio Ballads.
Hearing the voices of travelling people from over 60 years ago reminds us that nothing is new. So much of the current discourse is just rehashing the same story, with different faces but the same sentiment.
Produced in 1964 by Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.
What’s Your Status? (2009)
Judith Sloan lives in the most diverse county in the United States, Queens, New York, home to the largest mix of refugees and immigrants. Judith herself is the grandchild of immigrants who fled war to seek a better life.
It was produced by Judith for “Yo Miss” in 2009.
Chorus of Refuge (2008)
Testimony and storytelling is an important part of the refugee experience. You’re often asked to recount some of the most difficult moments in your life and sometimes it’s a story that you have to repeat over and over again. In the media, sometimes those stories bleed and merge into one another, to create one singular narrative. In this piece, instead, together they become a chorus.
It was produced by Ann Heppermann, Jason Cady and Kara Oehler, out of leftover tape from a project during the Wave Farm Artist Residency, where they interviewed six refugees.
Natasha’s Borscht (2024)
Food holds so much memory for us it can remind us at home. Here are the sounds of Natasha, a Ukrainian refugee, making borscht.
The original interview was recorded by Maria Margaronis, the sounds were adapted by Luca Piovesan for Migration Sounds.
A Seat at the Table (2025, unpublished)
We played an excerpt of Chantal Romaine’s final piece for her UCL Master’s, where she reflects on her Caribbean heritage through food. It is not yet released.
Supply Lines (2023)
Often the items that we get in the supermarket or that we buy online are delivered to our front door without much thought about the complexity that lies behind that journey.
“Supply Lines” was produced by Neil McCarthy along with the poet Aidan Tulloch for BBC Radio 3’s Between the Ears.
Fragments of Palestine (2023)
This meditative sound piece blends ambient drone textures and organic healing instruments with a recording of a bus journey through Palestine, taken shortly before October 7th.
It’s a journey through a landscape shaped by displacement, capturing the fleeting moments of everyday life, and the movements of those whose homes are in constant flux.
It was produced in 2023 by Rafael Diogo as part of Echoes for Palestine, a collection of sound works created to fundraise for the children of Gaza.
This Train (1963)
Literal, physical movement can create momentum for social movements.
We played a short excerpt from Studs Terkel’s hour and a half oral history piece, made from recordings on a train ride en route to the civil rights March on Washington in 1963.