166: Ben Hunte | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Homo Sapiens would like to offer our very own candidate for the new James Bond : Vice Senior Reporter, Ben Hunte. From stories of being kidnapped in Malaysia, to undercover LGBTQ+ investigations, this former BBC LGBT Correspondent has led the life of an international man of mystery from a young age. And I’m pleased to say that he’s picked up an encyclopaedic knowledge of musicals and a brilliant sense of humour along the way. We sit down this week to find out more about all of the above… and more. Chris x
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
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| 0:30.5 | Listeners, I'm sitting in my garden, it feels lovely and sunny, I feel like I'm on holiday |
| 0:36.8 | from Honest, which is very apt because I've got some more holiday reading for you. This |
| 0:42.0 | episode of Homo sapient is sponsored by Better Left Unsaid from Tufayel Ahmed, author of |
| 0:47.3 | the acclaimed novel This Way Out. Better Left Unsaid is about three siblings navigating life |
| 0:52.4 | after their mother's death. They're all living separate lives trying to live up to their |
| 0:56.6 | last promises they each made to their mother. Until a viral news piece throws an unwanted |
| 1:02.0 | spotlight on the family and forces the siblings back into each other's lives. Three siblings, |
| 1:07.2 | three promises, three lifetimes of saying all the wrong things. Gosh, it feels familiar. |
| 1:11.7 | I'll leave it at that for now, it's a really good read. The novel is available at amazon.co.uk |
| 1:18.3 | forward slash Homo sapiens. I love it when they do a little URL for us. Those with a Kindle |
| 1:23.6 | Unlimited subscription can read no additional extra cost. That's www.amazon.co.uk forward slash |
| 1:29.5 | Homo sapiens. Better Left Unsaid is available 20th September in ebook, paperbook and audiobook |
| 1:35.4 | editions. Mmm, get involved. Hi, hi, hi, everybody sitting down. Good, this is part two of our |
| 1:43.9 | lovely chat with Ben Hunt. So go and listen to part one if you haven't. Car approaching, |
| 1:50.0 | is this my eb buyer? No driving past. Yeah, this is part two of Ben so much more to learn and grow. |
| 1:59.2 | Here we go. So you're teaching confidence. Yeah. Where did your confidence come from? |
| 2:06.2 | I'm leaving the country. Yeah. Okay, genuinely. Like I was so lacking in confidence before I |
| 2:18.5 | moved abroad on my own for university. I went to Malaysia. I got a full scholarship to study abroad |
| 2:24.9 | and I took it and moved to Malaysia. A country that admittedly I probably didn't Google hard |
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