Time To Talk with Alex Holmes

Ciaran Thapar is a youth worker, social activist, and writer based in London. His journalism on serious youth violence, austerity politics, British multiculturalism, and contemporary music culture can be found in the Guardian, British GQ, Vice, and Pitchfork.

He has experience developing and delivering charity programmes in secondary schools, youth clubs, and prisons. As Founder of RoadWorks, music, and social education charity, Ciaran has advocated on behalf of young people in both Houses of Parliament, on national television and radio, and in legal court proceedings

His book Cut Short: Youth Violence, Loss and Hope In The City is out now.

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Glassy Riddim - Raf Saperra

Hold Up - Tolu Shorts

Time To Talk Bookclub:

Hero of A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

The Corner - David Simon

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Co-Produced by Alex Holmes and Ryan Nile

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Welcome back to another episode of Time To Talk, the home of conversation around mental health, masculinity, and healing. This week, I am speaking to my esteemed guest, Riaz Megjhi. Riaz is a human connection expert, based out in Canada. 

We talk about all things human connection, journalism, and what it means to have a good and wholehearted conversation to get the best out of the person as well as learn something new about ourselves. After the year that we have had behind screens, in isolation, and away from family and friends, I'm sure we would find it hard to disagree.

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Hosted by Alex Holmes

Co-Produced by Alex Holmes and Ryan Nile

Audio Engineering: Pure Creation Media 

Executive Produced by Alex Holmes 

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Welcome back to another episode of time to talk the home of conversation around mental health, masculinity, and healing.

This week, I'm exploring the conversation around empire with the one and only Professor Kehinde Andrews. Andrews is a Professor of Black Studies in the school of Social Sciences at Birmingham City University.

He is the founder and director of the center of critical social research founder of the Harambe organisation of black unity, which houses, the blog - Make It Plain. We come together to chat about his new book, New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule The World.

Today, we chat about the psychosis of whiteness and global psychology, the intersections of mental health, masculinity, and racism, and what we can learn about Western racism from the enlightenment and traditional philosophical thinkers.

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Hosted by Alex Holmes

Co-Produced by Alex Holmes and Ryan Nile

Audio Engineering: Pure Creation Media 

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This week, I speak to Eugene Ellis. He is the founder of The Black, African, and Asian Therapy Network, which has been an amazing resource for me and my own mental health. However, this conversation is focused on his new book The Race Conversation: An Essential Guide To Life-Changing Dialogue. We have a chat about how the body holds trauma, healing, and what we can learn about this to become better people going forward.

We also speak about his time as a practicing Buddhist, and his experience working with Soul II Soul in North London in his twenties.

Get his book: The Race Conversation

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Hosted by Alex Holmes

Co-Produced by Alex Holmes and Ryan Nile

Audio Engineering: Pure Creation Media 

Executive Produced by Alex Holmes 

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Today's guest is Justin Baldoni. 

He is an actor, director, producer, and co-founder, and co-chair of both Wayfarer Studios and the Wayfarer Foundation, and the heartthrob star of Jane The Virgin. Over the last ten years, Justin has been on a journey to explore masculinity and reimagine what it means to be a man, and human, in the world today. He has spoken about his journey with masculinity in his wildly popular TED Talk and in his series, Man Enough.

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