The BHP Podcast

Welcome to the Black Humanities Project! Meet Host Rhoda as she introduces this podcast - which explores Black representation in the humanities and inspires diverse students to pursue arts and humanities in higher education. Discover careers, insights, and stories that expose, explore, and empower Black humanities! 🎙️📚✨

Esther, a Liberal Arts graduate, shares how her diverse academic background shaped her career. In this episode, we discuss the skills gained from studying Liberal Arts, key projects, and how her role champions diversity in the field. Plus, valuable advice for those looking to pursue a similar path.

Isabel, a History graduate, discusses how studying history shaped her career and the skills she gained along the way. In this episode, we explore the diverse opportunities for History graduates, standout achievements, and how her work contributes to empowering Black Humanities. Plus, Isabel shares valuable advice for aspiring students and professionals.

In this episode, Aprajita sits down to talk with Ashley Hickson-Lovence, PhD in Creative and Critical Writing alumni and author of The 392 and Your Show.

Your Show - Your Show is a novel all about performance and trying to depict, and unpick, the process of putting on a spectacle for spectators in a sensory fashion. It is a novel where capturing the dynamism of Uri running around, gliding from one half of the pitch to the other repeatedly, was almost like the act of dancing to a song.

The 392 - Set entirely on a London bus travelling from Hoxton to Highbury and taking place over just 36 minutes, the events of The 392 unfold through a cast of charismatic characters coming from very different worlds. On the 392 are all the familiar faces you might expect to see on any bus ride through inner-city London in the grip of gentrification: delinquent school kids, the high-flyers, the weird, the wonderful and the homeless. These Londoners share two things: a bus journey and a threat. A threat which is ready to blow apart everything they know.

In this episode, Kenny, a fellow Student Coordinator for the Black Humanities Project, joins Rhoda to discuss a journey through academia, neurodiversity, and how their experiences shape their work in the Humanities. Together, they explore the importance of diversity in education, their roles within BHP, and their future aspirations post-university. Tune in for insights on empowering Black Humanities and embracing neurodiversity in academia.

Professor Hooper specialises in the arts of the Pacific region and North America. His main interests cover the relationship between Polynesian material culture, chiefship, valuables and exchange, ethnohistory, cultural property, ethnographical museums, the art market, publishing, book production and design. He completed his doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, having conducted fieldwork in Fiji. This podcast explores the foundation of Steven's passions and interests along with his fascinating journey into his position at the Sainsbury Research Unit.

In this episode, Aprajita sits down with Femi Kayode, an MA in Crime Fiction alumni and author of Light Seekers and Gas Light.

Gas Light - When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings – and their killers – are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why.

Light Seekers - When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings – and their killers – are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why.

Expose. Explore. Empower. was created by the Black Humanities Project Team. This documentary podcast exposes ethnically diverse stories within Norfolk including the first black Mayor in the UK, the daughter of the last Maharaja of Punjab, a Canaries legend, and stories of the Windrush Generation.

After watching the documentary, take a look at the classroom activities below.

Expose. Explore. Empower. Resources and discussion prompts

Adjoa, a Politics, Philosophy, and Economics graduate and Founder of Black Queers Connect talks with Rhoda about her journey to becoming a community organiser, inspirational speaker and advocate for UK Black LGBTQ+ Adults.

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From Civil Service to Content Creation. In this Episode, Rhoda speaks to Déjà about Social Politics and how policy can make a difference and have an impact on people's lives, and creating travel content.

book that opens the door to those that don't find reading comfortable or natural. Black people have always been part of the historical narrative. Black people have had successes and failures, pain and delights, achievements and loss, adventure and invention, creativity and wisdom. Black people have kings and queens, chiefs and politicians, scientists, writers, singers, dancers; indeed Black people have always been present in the human story.

In this episode, Destiny talks about her journey to becoming a Casting Producer and working to increase representation in TV and Film by putting people on screen that wouldn't normally have the chance. This episode explores studying Global Issues, Politics, and Languages and touches on the vast number of transferable skills humanities humanities students can learn and the career opportunities they open up.