Human Resources

A podcast that explores the simple complicated task of being a person

Human Resources is a podcast mini-series in three parts, with each part posing a question that seems too simple to ask: How do we deal with our mistakes? Is friendship fundamental to our survival? How do we keep breathing through a crisis?

Through storytelling, documentary and poetry, Hannah and her various collaborators open up a space of care and creative challenge in which they invite their listeners to consider the unlikely sources of potential resource in their own lives, and how they might use them a little differently.

Created during the Covid pandemic — a time when life has shrunk to what is inside our homes, with more time to reflect and less real engagement — Human Resources explores the relationship between performer and audience, reconsidering how theatrical ideas work at a distance and without a live audience. Immersive, conversational and accessible, the podcast is a way of creating space for listeners to enjoy a cultural experience.

Listen to Human Resources via the embedded players on the right, or find all the episodes on Apple, Spotify and other podcast apps.

Created by: Hannah Jane Walker, with Chris Thorpe, Rachel Mariner and Ross Sutherland. Sound design by: Hana Walker-Brown. Outside eye/mentor: Ross Sutherland. Artist wellbeing practitioner: Lou Platt.

Episode 3 commissioned by Cambridge Junction as part of HOME Manchester’s Homemakers series 2020.