Unpacked: Young People & Violence

Content warning: this episode contains references to attempted suicide. Until now the series has been shaped by the male experience - male fear, male stereotypes and male harm. This episode centres women and girls. Not just as victims, but as people navigating risk, silence, expectation and survival every day. With youth practitioner Ebinehita Iyere, barrister Ife Thomspon, poet and campaigner Lad...

In this episode, we challenge how policing is justified as safeguarding. Joined by the Runnymede Trust’ s own Sophia Purdy-Moore, Sayce Holmes-Lewis, founder and CEO of Mentivity , and JMF, a content creator connected to Mentivity, Richie Brave asks whether current policing approaches truly protect young people, or sometimes cause harm in the name of safety. Links: The Runnymede Trust, Keeping Us...

Violence isn’t the starting point. This episode explores everything that happens before violence appears. Joined by Jay Yambuya, co-founder of No More Exclusions , and Jenni Steele from Juvenis , Richie Brave looks at the factors before the spark that often don’t make the headlines. Links: The Runnymede Trust, History on Loop: Black and Asian British Children Are Locked Out of the Classroom , Lond...

There is a myth that youth violence has a face: Black and male. This shapes who gets stopped by police, who gets excluded from school, and who is automatically labelled as dangerous. In this episode, Richie Brave sits down with rapper KOJ and researcher and lecturer Dr Becky Clarke to understand how that image is conjured through history, policy and the media. By stripping violence of stereotypes,...

Living with violence is the reality for many young people, but who is the victim, and who is the perpetrator? Presented by Richie Brave and brought to you by the Runnymede Trust , this series encourages us to flip the narrative to question who gets forgotten, and how we can really keep young people safe. The statements made by guests on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Ru...