Tune in at 11am, Monday, April 7th, for part one of an interview with Black Irish Lesbian performer and activist Shaz Oye. Oye talks about art and politics in the Republic of Ireland. We'll also hear songs from her new CD. Traveling northward, Out-FM speaks with Queer Space organizer Gareth Lee about the 10th anniversary of their community center and the impact the center has on politics in North Ireland. Lee talks about the advancement of LGBT rights under direct british rule as well as about the attacks by the religious right on LGBT rights by Ian Paisley’s Jr. the son of the powerful Reverend Ian Paisley.

You'll also hear about Unnatural Causes, PBS's important documentary on Healthcare in America

Click to inner page for details and sound files.

Interview with Shaz Oye Click HERE to listen (right click to download)

Interview with Gareth Lee Click HERE to listen (right click to download)

Excerpt from PBS Unnatural Causes miniseries Click HERE to listen (right click to download)

Preview of part 2 of the Shaz Oye interview. Click HERE to listen (right click to download)

To listen to the whole show CLICK HERE  

Go to Shaz Oye's Myspace page or to Shazoye.com

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (Documentary) – Ch. 13 – WNET (PBS)
Sat., Mar. 29, 2:00 PM, Part #1: In Sickness and In Wealth
The connections between healthy bodies and healthy bank accounts are uncovered.

Sat, Apr. 5, 2:00 PM, Part #2: When The Bough Breaks/Becoming American
African-American infancy mortality rates and changes in the heath of recent immigrants are explored.

Sat., Apr 12 , 2:00 PM, Part #3: Bad Sugar/Place Matters
Investigates what policies create neighborhood environments that harm or benefit residents' health.

Sat., Apr 19, 2:00 PM, Part #4: Collateral Damage/Not Just A Paycheck
Diabetes, tuberculosis, cardiovascular and kidney diseases are taking a toll on Pacific Islanders.

UNNATURAL CAUSES is a four-hour documentary series premiering nationally on PBS. What’s happening to our health? While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, this ground-breaking documentary series crisscrosses the country to investigate the findings that are shaking up conventional understandings of what really makes us healthy—or sick.

UNNATURAL CAUSES sheds light on mounting evidence that demonstrates how work, wealth, neighborhood conditions and lack of access to power and resources can actually get under the skin and disrupt human biology as surely as germs and viruses. But it’s not just the poor who are sick—so are the middle classes. At each descending rung of the socio-economic ladder, people tend to be sicker and die sooner. What's more, at every level, many communities of color are worse off than their white counterparts. Compelling personal stories—spanning the country—demonstrate how social conditions are as vital to our health as diet, smoking and exercise. As Harvard epidemiologist David Williams points out, investing in our schools, improving housing, integrating neighborhoods, better jobs and wages, giving people more control over their work, these are as much health strategies as smoking diet and exercise. And these are the stories that UNNATURAL CAUSES tells.

UNNATURAL CAUSES is a medical detective story out to solve the mystery of what’s stalking and killing us before our time, especially those of us who are less affluent and darker skinned....But this is also a story of hope and possibility, of communities organizing to gain control over their destinies—and their health. The good news is that if our bad health results in part from policy decisions that we as a society have made, then we can make other decisions. As some other countries already have.