#45 Lliana Bird (Founder of Help Refugees): Social Media And The Refugee Crisis

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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I interviewed Lliana Bird at Cheltenham Literature Festival in October about her new book alongside Ella Mills (Deliciously Ella) so it was nice to catch up again and chat more about what she's up to. Lliana Bird is a radio presenter, writer, actress and co-founder of Help Refugees, currently presenting the Friday and Saturday evening shows on Radio X. She has also previously contributed to Capital Radio, Virgin Radio, and the BBC Local Radio service. Lliana also presents a weekly podcast entitled Geek Chic's Weird Science which was selected as iTunes Best of 2014. This year she released a book, The Mice Who Sing for Sex with podcast co-host Dr Jack. Lliana co-founded Help Refugees, a charity providing aid to refugees across Europe and beyond which is the most incredible organisation and we chat lots more about it on the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:02.8	today's guest is Leanna Bird, radio presenter and writer and actress and the
0:07.1	co-founder of Help refugees. She currently presents a show on Radio X
0:11.5	on Friday and Saturday evenings and she's also
0:13.6	previously been involved with Capital Radio Virgin Radio and the BBC local
0:17.6	radio service. She presents a weekly podcast as well called Geek Sheik's Weird
0:22.2	Science which was selected as iTunes
0:24.4	best of 2014. This year she released a book inspired by the podcast The
0:29.5	Mice who Sing for Sex it's called which is co-written with her podcast host Dr Jack.
0:34.3	Leanna is also the co-founder of Help refugees, which is a charity providing aid to
0:38.4	refugees across Europe and beyond, and it is amazing what this organization has achieved in just over a year.
0:44.4	Thanks so much again for tuning in every week and I hope you do on this episode.
0:48.0	Here it is.
0:52.0	I'm very excited with Leanna Bird who I saw recently at Chiltonum Festival.
0:58.0	That was fun, wasn't it?
1:00.0	Really fun.
1:01.0	That was my first time doing a literary festival. Me too, but a big one like that.
1:04.5	Yeah and it was nice to be up on the stage and have a couple of other women to discuss some issues with it was really great.
1:10.9	Thank you for having me. No you're welcome it was a good balance and it was um it was really great. Yeah. No, you're welcome.
1:13.0	It was a good balance and it was really interesting to talk to you and Ella Mills about what you're doing.
1:18.0	There was kind of weird similarities there, weren't there?
1:20.0	Which is strange because we, if you think about about it actually there's a lot of difference
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