In part two of the podcast with Professor Gus John, entitled ‘Global Majority,’ we continue to explore the concept of the people of the Global Majority. Starting with his move to Manchester, Gus continues to share real examples in which he was deeply involved of friendship and collaboration between people, often from different cultures, who had more that connected them as human beings through their colonial past than divided them.

Professor Gus shares his experiences of striving for racial and class equity in England, including eight years as the first Black Director of Education in the UK. His dry sense of humour will have you cracking up!

Hi, you are listening to Blue Note Narratives, conversations on love, light, life, and all in the key of blue.

I’m your host, Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, and today, in part one of episode four, Spiritually Well Heart, I am in rich and deep conversation with one of our icons, the one and only walking historical encyclopedia that is Professor Gus John.

Bring your notepads for this unfettered, unfiltered walk through the very full and colourful life of this scholar/activist. In this part one of a three-part episode, his eloquent reflections on his early life as a child in Grenada, and how this grounding led him, via the circuitous route of a graveyard, towards the priesthood and activism in the UK are in equal measure instructive and delicious.

This episode of Blue Note Narratives, is a conversations on love, light, life, and all in the key of blue. I’m your host, Rosemary Campbell-Stephens, and today, in episode three, Education and Troubled Hearts, I am in conversation with the deeply wise Elaine Foster-Allen, my mentor before mentoring was a thing, and former Permanent Secretary to three different administrations in Jamaica. Join us as we journey through her life stories about political activism and advocacy in the UK and Jamaica.