The subject of today’s conversation is racism and sport’s relationship to it. And our guests are Sanjay Bhandari and John Amaechi. 

Sanjay is chair of Kick It Out, the charity campaigning to end racial and ethnic discrimination in English football.   

John Amaechi OBE is a psychologist and founder of the APS Intelligence consultancy. 

The context for the podcast is English cricket and specifically the accusations of institutional racism made against Yorkshire Cricket Club  by Azeem Rafiq, the former player, who detailed his experiences at a highly charged and very emotional meeting of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee on November 16th. 

The conversation took place before the publication yesterday of the ECB’s action plan to tackle the issues raised by the controversy.

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