The BHP Podcast
Introducing the Black Humanities Podcast
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The Black Humanities Podcast launched in 2023 with two fascinating conversations with alumni of UEA Creative Writing programmes, Femi Kayode and Ashley Hickson-Lovence.
The Podcast exposes the experiences and inspirations of ethnically diverse UEA graduates and people working within arts and humanities.
The BHP Podcast
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, 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