We look back on our favourite episodes including some of our biggest and best guests and what they taught us. Plus we say thanks to you, our amazing listeners, for the things you’ve taught us along the way! No, we’re not crying, you’re crying.

Celebrating black women, Kelechi Okafor and Monty

Oct 6th, 2020 39m 37s

We’re hilarious, we’re resilient and we’re a force to be reckoned with, according to actor, dance studio boss and podcaster Kelechi Okafor. We talk about how pre-colonial Yoruba spirituality inspires how she sees herself, the misconceptions of

Interracial dating, Ayesha Perry-Iqbal and Athena Kugblenu

Sep 29th, 2020 36m 56s

I’ve never dated outside of my race and I wanted to hear stories from people who are. We chat about why interracial and interethnic dating isn’t the same thing, model and TV presenter Ayesha says that being British in LA actually makes more of

Money, mindset and Monty

Sep 22nd, 2020 38m 2s

Conversations about money should be really simple, so why don’t we talk more about it? Monty asks Bola Sol and Franklin Asante (aka The Urban Financier) what the receipts really are for drip culture, to share hacks for your bank balance and abo

Sudan, Netherlands and Gaidaa

Sep 15th, 2020 35m 3s

Life for people of colour varies hugely across Europe. We hear what growing up in the Netherlands was like for Dutch-Sudanese artist Gaidaa compared to living in the UK. We talk about outdated Christmas traditions, the Dutch response to Black L

Stripping, Samantha Sun and April Fiasco

Sep 8th, 2020 37m 27s

We rarely hear from strippers who are women of colour, so I wanted to find out how they feel about being eroticised for their race, what their families think of their jobs and why my preconceptions of their job are wrong. And I learned we have

Notting Hill Carnival, what it means to us in 2020

Sep 1st, 2020 53m 30s

This Bank Holiday weekend in the UK marks the first in 61 years that we haven’t celebrated Notting Hill Carnival. Originally set up to ease race tensions between black and white Britons and to celebrate Caribbean culture, I wanted to take a dee

Women in Sport: The Netball Sisters

Aug 25th, 2020 53m 29s

Sasha and Kadeen Corbin are more than just sisters, they play Netball for England. I wanted to speak to this very talented duo to discuss the importance of sport and exercise for our mental wellbeing and to see what their experience has been li

Travelling: Solo, Black & Female

Aug 18th, 2020 44m 2s

Lockdown has had us all dreaming about holidays and wanting to get away. I wanted to speak to travel guru, journalist and the first black woman to travel to 195 countries, Jessica Nabongo, along with award-winning podcaster Tolani Shoneye (aka

Black, British and Jewish

Aug 11th, 2020 53m 29s

I wanted to speak to Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, a podcaster and journalist and black Jewish female who recently got caught up in Wiley’s latest Twitter rant in which he made some anti-Semitic comments. Nadine joins me to speak about what it’s like

A book for summer with Kiley Reid, Sarah Shaffi and Black Girls Book Club

Aug 4th, 2020 33m 56s

Such A Fun Age is a novel which starts with a racist misunderstanding and kickstarts our chat about race and class, the “pet to threat” phenomenon in business and why we don’t need any more slave movies. With author Kiley Reid, journalist Sarah

Redefining dance music, getting paid and Aluna Francis

Jul 28th, 2020 35m 13s

Should we recategorise dance music to be more racially inclusive? How did it become disconnected from its black queer origins? And why are black and women of colour consistently underpaid in music? Aluna Francis joins us to talk about her open

Healing, Grace F Victory & Coco Khan

Jul 21st, 2020 31m 47s

I'm often seen as a strong black woman, so how can I make space to heal? Grace F Victory and Coco Khan join me to discuss how going to a protest could be seen as self care, why Grace is training as a therapist and Coco explains how even the con

Intersectional veganism, Riyadh Khalaf and Tomi Makanjuola

Jul 14th, 2020 34m 25s

I’m asking how you can make vegan food using recipes from your own culture, learning what intersectional veganism is and wondering if I should be better at cooking Indian food. Chef Tomi Makanjuola aka The Vegan Nigerian and Celebrity Masterche

Dating, Sex and Scotty Unfamous

Jul 7th, 2020 39m 19s

I wanted to explore what it’s like for fat, black women navigating the treacherous world of sex and dating. Joining me to discuss this was Scotty Unfamous, one third of the sex positive Laid Bare podcast. We swapped stories about our dating exp

White Women’s Privilege, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Dr Charlotte Riley

Jun 30th, 2020 39m 9s

I wanted to explore privilege, specifically white women’s privilege, and was joined by the CEO of Chicken Shop Date Amelia Dimoldenberg and historian Dr Charlotte Riley from Southampton University. We talked about diversity in the media and aca

Monty, my family and black lives matter

Jun 23rd, 2020 44m 14s

I talk to three generations of my family about life in Britain. My parents describe moving to an all-white area and facing down my headteacher, my brother talks about the realities of growing up as a black man and my 15 year old niece tells me

Outrage, Lockdown and Dotty

Jun 16th, 2020 42m 43s

We chat all things outrage with the BBC Radio 1Xtra breakfast presenter who’s just written a book all about it. We also talk about ‘that’ Wiley interview, virtue signalling, activism, female rappers, lockdown and feminism. By the way, our inter

Ramadan, Thanna Alghabban and Mobeen Azhar

Jun 9th, 2020 41m 2s

Sadia’s first solo episode of the series, exploring the different ways to be British and Muslim with Mobeen Azhar and dating expert Thanna Alghabban. We chat fasting, dating experiences, generational and regional differences, secret relationshi

Family Photos, Passing and Jade Thirlwall

Jun 2nd, 2020 43m 43s

Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall joins us in lockdown to talk about growing up mixed race in North East England. We ask her how her being bullied at school affected how she portrayed herself when she joined Little Mix, how she’s exploring her Arab h

We're back together again… almost!

May 26th, 2020 2m 31s

We’re so excited to be back for Series 4. We’re reunited lockdown-style to share our plans for this season – we have some big guests and exciting news to announce!As ever we want to hear from you this season – you can send us your FAQs to NoCo

Festive feels, love eggs and Vir Das

Dec 10th, 2019 43m 35s

‘Let's say 400 people are offended by a joke… so?’It’s our final episode of the season and our festive special! We pull some crackers with comedian Vir Das and find out what women want. Plus we ask how to have fun when you don't celebrate Chris

Androgyny, Accra and Amaarae

Dec 3rd, 2019 31m 2s

‘You have to be sensual, you have to sell sex… or they try to present you as the African queen’We’re in different countries and different continents, but that won’t stop us from chatting with singer-songwriter Amaarae about cultural respect and

Begging, benefits and Solomon Smith

Nov 26th, 2019 30m 5s

"Literally, the day I started… it’s never been the same."We take a trip to the Brixton Soup Kitchen to meet some sofa surfers, rough sleepers and its founder Solomon Smith. He talks feeding the homeless with rice and peas, failing at school and

Virginity, disability and the Triple Cripples

Nov 19th, 2019 43m 40s

Cancelling dudes and sharing your pubes with Kym & Jay, who use their YouTube channel the Triple Cripples to talk being black, disabled women.Plus how men control our hymens: from T.I. and his daughter’s virginity, to our cherry popping.