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The Receipts Podcast has amassed over two and a half million listens and recently joined BBC Radio 1Xtra
It starts with a topic and a conversation.
Or at least, that’s how it began for the individuals behind web series BKChat, The Receipts Podcast and Halfcast Podcast.
In the age of the internet, the opportunity to create and share content has increased rapidly.
This has seen more black faces, more black voices, and a rise in popularity of the chat show format among a young black audience.
It’s a demographic British mainstream media has struggled to represent in the past.
Both the BBC and Sky have pledged to increase their diversity in recent years, and Project Diamond was launched in November 2015 as an industry-wide attempt to monitor diversity across the BBC, Channel 4,…
