In a heartwarming interview, Jonathan Cash, author, journalist, and playwright discusses his experiences as a victim of the Soho nail bomb, its impact on his life, the attitudes of society towards victims of trauma, and how his experience moulded his future career.

In this episode we are joined by Tom Gaffney, the services manager at Leedsgate, and Bernard Cunningham, a member of the GRT community working at Leedsgate in suicide prevention and mental health support as we discuss the issues that the community have to face each day, together with the normalisation of the hate directed towards them. An honest and very frank interview that we hope will be thought provoking, especially as we head into Christmas and its message of peace and goodwill to all.

Heather is the Youth Services Development Manager for Bradford Children and Familes Trust. In April 2023, when the Knife Angel came to Bradford to help raise awareness, Heather produced a stunning piece of work on the impact of knife crime that she very kindly shares with us here. We also discuss commonalities between hate crime and knife crime.

To mark UK Disability History Month 2023, we talked with Darryl Smith. Darryl is an inclusive practice consultant, and equality and inclusion trainer with specialism in disability awareness and hate crime, a programme lead with Equality Together and an equality, diversity and inclusion champion.

The second part of the unmissable interview with Saorsa. 

Saorsa is one of the UK's greatest advocates for trans rights. In a climate where hate crime is growing against the trans community at an alarming rate, Saorsa tells the reality of daily life for trans people and why the rhetoric surrounding gender is contributing to that. Part 2 to follow......

Daniel Balaz from Connecting Roma talks to us about his life growing up in Bradford and the work he does to support and connect the Roma community across the district, as well as their new role as a hate crime reporting centre. 

Our conversation with West Yorkshire Deputy Mayor Alison Lowe is a must listen. She speaks with searing honesty about her own personal experiences with hate crime and her advocacy for the work we do is so evident. 

To coincide with Restorative Justice Awareness week, Kate Brooksbank, from Restorative Justice West Yorkshire, one of our strategic partners in fighting hate crime, popped in for a chat to tell us all about the fantastic work that they do and how restorative solutions might just be an option for people who are victims of hate crime. 

For our first episode, Charles Dacres tells us about his experiences growing up in Bradford as well as the journey that took him to Bradford Hate Crime Alliance and his vision for the future.