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For those who may be uninitiated in the world of cricket, there is another Nasser Hussain out there who is not known for either cake-baking or poetry.

Order your very own copy of SKY WRI TEI NGS here, from your local independent bookshop, or directly from Coach House Press, where you can also download the Global Airport Code Map.

Literally no one wants to read about the REF (the UK’s Research Excellence Framework), but should you wish to disprove us, our apologies and commiserations.

For more on airport codes, including the Canadian propensity to begin them with a Y, see this piece by Adrian Nowakowski.

Check out Christopher Schaberg’s Airportness: The Nature of Flight, Christian Bök’s Eunoia, and his Xenotext.

The Ambassador Bridge looks like this. Maybe one day it will have a musical of its own.

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Thanks to the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for the use of recording equipment, and to the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.

Music: “Corrupted” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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Not only has Professor Sinéad Moynihan not appeared in Hollyoaks, but she has also not appeared in Drop Dead Gorgeous or How Not to Live Your Life.

Find out more about the Partition of Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement, the Common Travel Area, and Ireland’s 2004 Citizenship referendum. Stephen O’Neill’s book is Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955. You can read about US Immigration pre-clearance here: Gillian notes that, much later than 1903, she travelled from Victoria BC to Washington state via pre-clearance.

The material in this podcast is for informational purposes only. The personal views expressed by the hosts and their guests on the Borders Talk podcast do not constitute an endorsement from associated organisations.

Thanks to the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for the use of recording equipment, and to the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.

Music: “Corrupted” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Edited by Steve Woodward at podcastingeditor.com

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For the benefit of Frankie the Flat Coated Retriever and her fans, we’re not saying that she will always come second behind her older Labrador sister, but we’re not not saying that, either.

The Guardian article we refer to about the Poland-Belarus border is Jon Henley’s “‘People treated like weapons’: more deaths feared at Poland-Belarus border” (2021).

We quote from Susan Kouguell’s interview with Agnieszka Holland (2024) from the Script website.

For more on Polish politicians likening Green Border to Nazi propaganda, see Philip Oltermann’s Guardian piece (2023).

For an image of Mexico-US border at San Diego/Tijuana, see this CNN article (2021). We’ve talked about this particular site before, in Episode 1.6 on Border Art, when we discussed Javier Tellez’s One Flew over the Void (Bala Perdida) from 2005. You can watch it here.

You can find Georgia Cole’s piece “Shabana Mahmood is wrong: refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’” on the Conversation website.

The material in this podcast is for informational purposes only. The personal views expressed by the hosts and their guests on the Borders Talk podcast do not constitute an endorsement from associated organisations.

Thanks to the School of Arts, Media and Communication at the University of Leicester for the use of recording equipment, and to the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham for financial support.

Music: “Corrupted” by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Edited by Steve Woodward at podcastingeditor.com