New Beginnings

For Maeve McClenaghan and her team at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, this discovery fuelled the yearlong “Dying Homeless” project, in which she would count and name the people who died homeless. With her book and its heartfelt narration, we become passengers on Maeve’s journey.

Ina Park brilliantly brings the underbelly of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to light, effectively presenting it to the masses. Through case narratives and clinical experiences, Park’s knowledge and humour around the subject are contagious. Not only discussing the history and current stigma surrounding STIs, she also offers clear and practical approaches to prevention and treatment for both those affected by STIs and the general public.

The Citing Africa podcast provides a platform where a wide range of knowledge from and about Africa is discussed, disseminated and utilized to promote innovation, particularly within the continent itself. This particular series of the podcast is produced by Masters’ students at the London School of Economics (LSE).

I Care a Lot is a dark comedy and dramatic telling of a fiercely ambitious court-appointed guardian, Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike). Through bribing doctors and wooing judges, Grayson all but kidnaps elderly wards and takes their assets for herself, in morally dubious yet legal ways.

Did you know the 1918 pandemic featured anti-maskers and politicians who downplayed or ignored the pandemic altogether? What are mask slackers? What stuff did you miss in history class?

Spanning Table Mountain to the Cape Flats, Cape Town Together tells the story of a neighbourhood-based response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa. At the peak of the response, 170 Community Action Networks (CANs) united in a time of crisis through Cape Town Together to address pre-existing social and structural issues that were amplified during the pandemic.

This 2008 animated film directed by Andrew Stanton is set in a dystopian future, where the Earth is barren and void of life - a literal wasteland. Humans have emigrated to space, where robots serve their every need, and navigate day-to-day life in hover chairs, never needing to move. WALL-E, the last robot on Earth, has been assigned the task of cleaning up the waste humans left behind.