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The Documentary Podcast

In the Studio: Nikita Gill

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The poet Nikita Gill has written several volumes of poetry, and enjoys engaging poetically with her audience using social media. Her work often explores Greek myths, and her latest project is a series of four books, each one focusing on a single goddess. For this episode of In the Studio, we join her as she starts with Hekate, often called the goddess of witchcraft, and about whom little is known, other than that she was brought up in the underworld by Styx. Nikita describes Hekate as a dark anti-feminine goddess and a protest against what is expected of women, which is what appealed to her. But how do you go about creating a life for someone who is so mysterious? And as Nikita will also be illustrating her work, how will she decide how to visually portray her? Follow Nikita across several months as she works towards completing her first draft of this exciting new work. Presented and produced by Rebecca Armstrong for the BBC World Service

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0:00.0

At normal transactions.

0:03.0

It's a kind of cyber attack on a bank.

0:05.0

Ten of millions of dollars.

0:07.0

Something I don't think anybody has seen before.

0:09.0

The cyber criminal group.

0:11.0

From the BBC World Service.

0:12.0

The Lazarusized is back for season two.

0:14.0

It was really like in the movies.

0:16.0

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

0:20.0

Hikati is the goddess of necromancy.

0:31.0

And necromancy is the ability to raise the dead.

0:36.0

Which is such a cool ability for a goddess to have.

0:40.0

I have to say.

0:41.0

But then her mom is very cool.

0:43.0

And that's like the beauty.

0:44.0

There's a lot of love between mothers and daughters.

0:47.0

A lot of love between women in this book.

0:52.0

There's so many stories and books which are written where there is a love story.

0:55.0

And I do not want her to have love story.

0:57.0

I do not because she is a virgin goddess.

1:02.0

Meet Nikita Gill, Britain's most followed poet.

1:06.0

Known to many through posting her poetry on various social media platforms.

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