Hosted by Thomas Zarand · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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In each prison cell, a story. For those who look, a mirror.I was imprisoned in Belarus.But amidst darkness, insight - understanding of who I am and what is true.When you hear about prisoners, you might read them as powerless, impulsive characters.But I've found more strength, choice and wisdom in these stories than I'd ever expected...I'm trying to make sense of what I learnt in that place, and how it applies to life beyond.Some incredible people are helping me.Please feel welcomed to join.
Thomas Zarand hosts The Mirror in My Cell, a society show with 16 episodes published.
In this episode, I chat with Vika, a human rights defender exiled from Belarus and now based in Lithuania. This was my first conversation with someone who hasn’t been incarcerated, and I was unexpectedly moved by her wis
Jisu started the day by collecting the forbidden apples of her neighbours’ garden. By evening time she was imprisoned. How do you process and accept a situation where it feels like the universe is against you, but the sy
Lisa is a Russian music artist based in Armenia, where she fled after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ‘Based’ is a nice way of putting it because she’s currently under arrest, pending trial for a drugs charge that arose
Simon Bright is a filmmaker and documentary producer. Born in Rhodesia, he was optimistic about the country's future, about Robert Mugabe's plan to build a better, more equal country. That all unravelled, and the nation
When you think of student protestors you might think of philosophy students at UCL smoking cigarettes and finger painting. In Belarus they get in trouble for less, and Kseniya was one of them back in 2020. She was arrest
Professor Paul Dieppe, was, as he puts it, conventionally satisfied. A blossoming medical career, producing great research and raising a happy family. One day he was invited to a conference. He got on a plane to fly to M
This is the second half of my conversation with Robin, a French citizen and masseuse who ended up in prison in China for drugs offences. In this part we discussed much more of how we made sense of our sentences, finding
I spoke with Robin this week. His story involved adventurism, cannabis, an authoritarian government and a 3-7 year prison sentence. Sound familiar? Singing jazz while cleaning out shit trenches, Robin is a example of how
Portia and I spoke a lot about freedom. That didn't happen because we'd experienced it being taken away, but our shared search for internal, personal freedom. Portia was sentenced to seven years in prison, but the outloo
He strayed from the path. About as far as robbery and a police chase can take you . In prison Islam returned to him, and showed him a better way forwards. --------------------------------------------- Reach Loui at: http
From the time he understood his sexuality, he knew he was an outsider. Ryan told me he could barely feel anything, let alone regret. Sitting in his cell, incapable of even absorbing that he was going to be tried for murd
She got a phone call at around midnight. I had been arrested in Belarus. What for? Drugs trafficking, caught with a gram of marijuana on the border. Over the course of months she was masterminding how to rescue me, chann
Qasim is the CEO of Rizq, an organisation fighting food insecurity and redistribution across South Asia, partnering with huge multinationals in the process. Qasim was mistakenly arrested after wide scale unrest in Pakist
Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, translator and writer. She is brave, tender and honest. In 2020 she participated in demonstrations against the rigged Belarusian election and was arrested. After her release she left the
I was arrested in late 2023, crossing the Belarusian border with 1.3 grams of marijuana in my raincoat. Part II of Article 328 prescribed I would spend the next 3 - 7 years in prison. From living a free and normal life i
This is the Mirror in My Cell - a conversation series borne from those who have confronted incarceration. When facing darkness head on, they saw a portal into identity, society and spirit. Join Thomas for stories of stre
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