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Human Resources

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A new series from Broccoli Productions exploring the true story of British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and how it touches every part of the nation. Hosted by Moya Lothian-Mc...

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Listen to Human Resources, a Society & Culture podcast by Sony Music. Stream 37 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Our New Book is Out!

Sadly, the podcast has come to an end. However, there is still so much to learn and discover about the links between modern Britain and the...

1:21Jun 10, 2025

In Conversation with Kris Manjapra

Moya and Kris Manjapra discuss his book Black Ghost of Empire, a revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the At...

52:36Dec 5, 2023

A Free Town

As abolitionist campaigns gained traction in the late 1700s, the population of formerly enslaved people grew. Those who had been enslaved in...

32:36Nov 28, 2023

Think of the Children

At the height of the British slave trade, there were no cameras to capture the experiences of the children who found themselves forced into...

38:43Nov 21, 2023

Abolition, Now part 2

In the last episode, ‘Abolition, Now part 1’, I was talking with Historian Diana Patton about the real timeline of Aboliton and what Aboliti...

23:29Nov 14, 2023

Abolition, Now part 1

Most people know the basics of this moment. Josiah Wedgewood made some pottery, William Wilberforce made some speeches, John Newton wrote Am...

27:47Nov 7, 2023

A Tale of Two Pews

In southwest London, there is an area that plays an outsized role in British history. Today, if you walk through Clapham, you will be greete...

34:56Oct 31, 2023

The Colony's Colony

Like Scotland, Ireland was another notch on England’s colonial bedpost, ruled from England continuously since the Tudors re-established the...

38:05Oct 23, 2023

Introducing Physical Capital: Swimming

Why do we swim? It’s not new, we’ve been swimming for 10,000 years… apparently. But why? We don’t live in the water and so what draws us to...

18:09Oct 17, 2023

In The Ring

I love fitness. I love sports. I go to the gym, I walk, I run, I cycle. In my youth, I played team games. And everyone said I was good at sp...

33:59Oct 16, 2023

Everyday People

In this episode we’re venturing onto the bustling city streets of 18 century London, trying to uncover the traces of the Black individuals w...

30:41Oct 9, 2023

In Absentia

In the last episode, we looked at the women in Jamaica who owned slaves, both British colonists and the formerly enslaved women who codified...

25:22Oct 2, 2023

GIRLBOSSES

Women made up 40% of slaveowners across the Caribbean – and although historians have had to dig even harder to pull together a picture of th...

40:32Sep 25, 2023

The Dis-carded

At the centre of the system of chattel slavery, was the body. Not the mind, not the soul but the physical vessel necessary to carry out back...

34:21Sep 18, 2023

Hippocrits

The Hippocratic Oath isn’t universal. But in the 18th century, the Oath began to be more widely used in medical schools across the British E...

31:20Sep 11, 2023

Inventing Race

Human civilization only began about 6,000 years ago. As author Emma Dabiri writes in her 2021 book, cheekily titled ‘What White People Can D...

36:51Sep 4, 2023

Winners and Losers

We’re back to a well-trodden theme: following the money to understand how Scotland’s national development was shaped by the slave trade – an...

32:56Mar 22, 2022

Bairns

In the first of our episodes spotlighting Scotland’s slaving history, we went big and broad. Now it’s time to get personal, to uncover the i...

33:49Mar 15, 2022

Taking the High Ground

When we talk about the ‘British’ Empire and the ‘British’ slave trade, it’s easy to forget that England – although the central seat of power...

33:22Mar 8, 2022

Origin Stories part 2

In part 1 of Origin Stories, we explored the dominant narratives around the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. But within every acc...

32:05Mar 1, 2022

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