Ep 47: Whiteness and refugees - Hameed Amiri fled Aghfanistan as a child, seeking refuge in the UK. As an adult, he has dedicated much of his work to raising awareness around the plight of refugees. He is the author of the recently published autobiographical book “The Boy With Two Hearts”, which is partly a homage to his brother Hussein, but also to the NHS, which provided Hussein with vital treatment. The book was featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week and has since been turned into a play which recently opened in Cardiff, Wales. He joins me to talk British whiteness, the refugee label and how NHS workers helped him reconnect with his trust in humanity, following his struggle with PTSD.

Ep 47: Whiteness and Brick Lane - Dr. Fatima Rajina is a Legacy in Action Research Fellow at the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre at De Montfort University. She is a former Research Assistant at the Institute of Criminology, at the University of Cambridge looking at police and counter-terrorism and has taught at SOAS and Kingston University, London. She is a co-founder of the ‘radical’ Bangladeshi campaign group ‘Nijjor Manush’ which is part of the Save Brick Lane Campaign, a coalition opposing the construction of a corporate office building in the heart of London’s Brick Lane. She joins me talk whiteness and gentrification, radical action and being Muslim in a post 9/11 world.

Ep 46: Whiteness and the 'Orient' - An award-winning broadcaster and journalist who anchors the UK's Channel 4 News, Fatima Manji is best known for breaking stories with a global impact. She's also recognised as one of the first UK news anchors to wear a headscarf. She’s the author of the recently released “Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s lost love of the Orient” and joins me to talk whiteness in journalism, belonging and Britishness and why she thinks the Kew Gardens mosque needs to be resurrected.

Ep 45: Whiteness and hip hop – Prof Tricia Rose is often referred to as the world’s foremost academic on Hip hop. Her ground-breaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America went on to define what is now an entire field of study.

She joins me to discuss how whiteness reduces hip hop to entertainment, whether some music just isn’t for ‘white’ ears and that line, between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.

ep 44: Whiteness is a dangerous idea - Robert P. Baird is a freelance writer and editor, who has held editorial positions at The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Esquire, and Harper’s Magazine, and has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His recent Guardian Long Read titled: “The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea” delves into the history and more recent understandings of whiteness and how the term's growing usage hasn't always yielded the results many white liberals had hoped. He joins me to talk whiteness as religion, how whiteness has evolved, and whether there is such a thing as 'detoxified' white identity.

*TRIGGER WARNING: Some of the language in this episode may be upsetting to some listeners.

Ep 43: Whiteness and the police – Paul Wilson was one of the UK’s longest serving and most senior black police officers. From helping establish the Black Police Association, heavily influencing the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, discussing critical issues with a Home Secretary, a Prime Minister, and an American President, Paul has been at the heart of British policing at a time of intense scrutiny over its commitment to racial equality. Now retired, Paul’s memoir “Rocking the Boat: A Superintendent's 30 Year Career Fighting institutional racism” has been described as “a challenging read” by Trevor Hall CBE, the retired Race Equality Advisor to the Home Office, and “an important wake-up call in the Black Lives Matter era” by Lord Brian Paddick, the former Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police. He joins me to discuss his experiences within the MET, his efforts at challenging racism and how much has changed since he first joined.

Ep 42: Whiteness and schools - Do our schools teach whiteness? What exactly should be taught in "Black History Month"? And does our educational system have a white supremacy problem...? To discuss this and more is a man who bridges the academic and activist world. Dr Ornette D. Clennon is a Professor at the Federal University of Amazon (UFAM) whose research focuses on themes of decolonial community and liberation psychology. His most recent book explores the 'invisible' impact whiteness has on the lived 'black' experience in the UK. He joins me to unpack how whiteness is being taught to our kids.

Ep 41: Whiteness and fashion - What's the relationship between fast fashion and colonialism? What happens to my old clothes? And who is really paying the price for my fashion fix? Aja Barber is an American writer, personal stylist and style consultant whose recently published first book “Consumed: colonialism, climate change and consumerism” is an expose of the industry she was long a part of, and a rallying call to us all to change the ways in which we consume.

ep40: Whiteness and belonging - Born in Nairobi, raised in London and Norway, writer and presenter Nazneen Khan joins me to explore identity, belonging and why she decided to tell a new, different version of the history of London - the subject of her recent book - to pay homage to the many who despite making up the capital's life and soul, are so often erased from its story.

Ep 39: Whiteness and healthcare – What is the colonial legacy in healthcare? How does modern medicine replicate historically forged patterns of domination? And why are we all so “inflamed”?

Rupa Marya is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and faculty director of the Do No Harm Coalition, an organization of over 450 health workers committed to structural change to address health problems. Welcome Dr Marya!

And Raj Patel is a New York Times bestselling author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.

Together, one a doctor, the other an economist, they explore the link between health and structural inequality. And crucially, what we can all do about it.