Black British Mental Health Matters With Marverine Cole and David Harewood

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11/21/22 • 44 min

Black British Lives Matter with Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder

This is the podcast where we explore why and how Black British lives matter –What it means to be Black and British, our culture, our joy and our pain.

This week we discuss why Black British Mental Health Matters with the highly acclaimed actor David Harewood and journalist and documentary maker Marverine Cole. With Black Britons four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act this is one of the most pressing issues affecting our communities. Our guests talk about the reality behind the shocking stats, their own personal mental health experiences and whether living in Britain is bad for our mental health.

Find out more about the hosts and guests:

David Harewood

https://davidharewood.co.uk/

Twitter: @DavidHarewood

Instagram: @davidharewood

David Harewood’s BBC Two documentary is ‘Psychosis and Me’

Marverine Cole

https://www.marverinecole.co.uk/

Twitter: @TVMarv

Instagram: @tvmarv

Marverine Cole’s BBC Radio 4 documentary is ‘Black Girls Don’t Cry’

Marcus Ryder is on Twitter @marcusryder

Lenny Henry is also on Twitter @LennyHenry

https://lennyhenry.net/

Our book: Black British Lives Matter by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder is published by Faber & Faber and is available to purchase here:

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571368518-black-british-lives-matter/

Podcast art by Faber

Music by The Lethargees

This podcast is a Faber & Faber production

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the podcast where we explore why and how Black British lives matter –What it means to be Black and British, our culture, our joy and our pain.

Find out more about the hosts and guests:

David Harewood

https://davidharewood.co.uk/

Twitter: @DavidHarewood

Instagram: @davidharewood

David Harewood’s BBC Two documentary is ‘Psychosis and Me’

Marverine Cole

https://www.marverinecole.co.uk/

Twitter: @TVMarv

Instagram: @tvmarv

Marverine Cole’s BBC Radio 4 documentary is ‘Black Girls Don’t Cry’

Marcus Ryder is on Twitter @marcusryder

Lenny Henry is also on Twitter @LennyHenry

https://lennyhenry.net/

Our book: Black British Lives Matter by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder is published by Faber & Faber and is available to purchase here:

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571368518-black-british-lives-matter/

Podcast art by Faber

Music by The Lethargees

This podcast is a Faber & Faber production

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Black British Reparations Matter With Kehinde Andrews and Esther Stanford Xosei

This is the podcast where we explore why and how Black British lives matter –What it means to be Black and British, our culture, our joy and our pain.

This week we discuss one big idea - reparations - paying Black British people, and Black people around the world, for the slavery and colonialism they suffered. Could reparations solve racism once and for all, and how would it eve work? Professor Kehinde Andrews and activist and lawyer, Esther Stanford Xosei join Lenny and Marcus to discuss.

Additional reading about reparations recommended in the podcast:

Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams

Slavery Reparations: The Time is Now by Nora Whitman

Esther Stanford Xosei’s chapter ‘The long road of Pan-African liberation to reparatory justice’ is in Black British History: New Perspectives edited by Hakim Adi

Find out more about the hosts and guests:

Kehinde Andrews

https://www.bcu.ac.uk/social-sciences/about-us/staff/criminology-and-sociology/kehinde-andrews

Twitter: @kehinde_andrews

Instagram: @kehindeandrews

Esther Stanford-Xosei

https://roape.net/2022/03/10/afrika-and-reparations-activism-in-the-uk-an-interview-with-esther-stanford-xosei/

Twitter: @Xosei

Instagram: @mzxosei

Marcus Ryder is on Twitter @marcusryder

Lenny Henry is also on Twitter @LennyHenry

https://lennyhenry.net/

Our book: Black British Lives Matter by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder is published by Faber & Faber and is available to purchase here:

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571368518-black-british-lives-matter/

Podcast art by Faber

Music by The Lethargees

This podcast is a Faber & Faber production

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Black British Food Matters With Zoe Adjonyoh and Melissa Thompson

This is the podcast where we explore why and how Black British lives matter –What it means to be Black and British, our culture, our joy and our pain.

This week we discuss why Black British Food Matters with Zoe Adjonyoh, founder of Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen and award-winning food journalist Melissa Thompson. Food plays a central role in any society. It carries our culture across generations and holds secrets about our history. We also ask if the food wider society values contains racist overtones, for example why is French cuisine regularly seen as the height of “good cooking” while West African food is rarely mentioned?

Find out more about the hosts and guests:

Zoe Adjonyoh

https://www.zoesghanakitchen.com/

Twitter: @zoeadjonyoh

Instagram: @zoeadjonyoh

Melissa Thompson

https://www.fowlmouths.co.uk/

Twitter: @FowlMouthsFood

Instagram: @fowlmouthsfood

Marcus Ryder is on Twitter @marcusryder

Lenny Henry is also on Twitter @LennyHenry

https://lennyhenry.net/