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Sacred Money
WINNER, Editor’s Choice - Best Specialist Podcast British Podcast Awards
Silver, Best Business Podcast British Podcast Awards
Award for Changing the World One Moment at a Time International Women’s Podcast Awards (Nominee)
A five-part narrative series for BBC Sounds Audio Lab
This series might just change how you think about money, and how money connects us to people we know and people we don’t.
In five episodes, Taqwa Sadiq explores whether Zakat, an Islamic tradition, can help solve the cost-of-living crisis. Her search to answer this question takes us all over the globe and even back in time. From hallowed libraries in Cambridge and a mysterious stone in Turkey, to a flooded farm in Pakistan and modern activism in Chicago. This story opens up questions around identity and belonging, gets to the heart of what it means to be a British Muslim, and explores what happens when ancient traditions are transported to new places and times.
Written, produced, and presented by Taqwa Sadiq
(5 x 25-30 min episodes)
See more at BBC Audio Lab Class of 2023 and Radio Academy
Listen on BBC Sounds, Spotify, Apple Podcasts
Life Working with Vicky Clarfelt
A podcast exploring moments where our work and personal lives intersect and the journeys we go on when they do
Open, inspiring, and remarkable conversations with guests ranging from an award winning novelist to creative directors, broadcasters, entrepreneurs, and even a happiness consultant. Expect chats filled with love, loss, creativity, grief, parenthood, happiness....Adam Brody shrines, Usain Bolt boat parties...to name a few!
Produced by Taqwa Sadiq for Clarfelt + Co
Outlook: BBC World Service
The Fraud: Holding the powerful to account, with accounting
Fake documents, secret cheques, and a reporter with a hunch. The story of how a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uncovered a massive government scandal in Michigan in the nineties.
Produced and reported by Taqwa Sadiq for Outlook, BBC World Service
(22.00 mins)
Listen here
A Moonlit Memory
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts, Series 35 ‘Soundscape’
In this vivid soundscape, Salma travels back in time to an evening in her childhood, growing up in Kano, Nigeria in the 1970’s. Coming home from Christian Missionary school as the sun sets, Salma walks up the garden…
(09.00 mins)
Also selected to broadcast on FBi Radio’s All the Best podcast
Listen here
Sheffield Doc/Fest Podcast Pitch
Breathing Lyrical Wins Second-Prize at the inaugural Sheffield Doc/Fest Podcast Pitch 2023, supported by the Whicker’s
Judges commented, ‘This is a beautifully original and creative proposal. Taqwa gave a compelling pitch that convinced all three judges she has the storytelling talent to lead audiences through the blend of art, science and social issues she imagines. We were impressed by how expansive her proposal is, with episodes focused around race, climate change and personal relationships, all with her own personal journey at its heart.’
Breathing Lyrical
Winner, Charles Parker Prize 2022 for Best Student Radio Feature; BBC Radio 4 (listen here)
Pick of the Week in The Observer, Radio Choice in The Telegraph, Pick of the Day in the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, Financial Times Radio Pick
Can a poem change how you breathe?
A young woman’s journey exploring alternative healing for long covid through the power of poetry, rhythm and voice, Islamic mystical conceptions of breath, and the impact of literature on the brain.
Best experienced with headphones. (14:00 mins)
Produced, presented and edited by Taqwa Sadiq
#MadeAtUCL Season 3
UCL’s flagship, award-winning #MadeAtUCL podcasts explore the disruptive discoveries emerging from research at University College London
With stories by Taqwa Sadiq, listen to Season 3, Episode 1 ‘Data Moves’
