No Country For Young Women
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No Country For Young Women
Life, love and work in a white man's world. Let's help each other figure it out!Presenters: Sadia Azmat and Monty Onanuga
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68 episodes
Laughter, learns and our last episode…
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 l...
Celebrating black women, Kelechi Okafor and Monty
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 ab...
Interracial dating, Ayesha Perry-Iqbal and Athena Kugblenu
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 s...
Money, mindset and Monty
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 Financie...
Sudan, Netherlands and Gaidaa
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 t...
Stripping, Samantha Sun and April Fiasco
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 familie...
Notting Hill Carnival, what it means to us in 2020
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 tensi...
Women in Sport: The Netball Sisters
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 importan...
Travelling: Solo, Black & Female
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 tra...
Black, British and Jewish
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 ra...
A book for summer with Kiley Reid, Sarah Shaffi and Black Girls Book Club
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...
Redefining dance music, getting paid and Aluna Francis
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 w...
Healing, Grace F Victory & Coco Khan
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...
Intersectional veganism, Riyadh Khalaf and Tomi Makanjuola
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 bett...
Dating, Sex and Scotty Unfamous
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 Unfa...
White Women’s Privilege, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Dr Charlotte Riley
I wanted to explore privilege, specifically white women’s privilege, and was joined by the CEO of Chicken Shop Date Amelia Dimoldenberg and historian...
Monty, my family and black lives matter
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 bro...
Outrage, Lockdown and Dotty
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 interv...
Ramadan, Thanna Alghabban and Mobeen Azhar
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....
Family Photos, Passing and Jade Thirlwall
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...
We're back together again… almost!
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...
Festive feels, love eggs and Vir Das
‘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 come...
Androgyny, Accra and Amaarae
‘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 conti...
Begging, benefits and Solomon Smith
"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 a...
Virginity, disability and the Triple Cripples
Cancelling dudes and sharing your pubes with Kym & Jay, who use their YouTube channel the Triple Cripples to talk being black, disabled women.
P...
Gentrification, change and Joy Crookes
Being punched in the face by gentrification with singer-songwriter Joy Crookes. How she stays humble and keeps control, plus who should we change for?...
Paris, racism and Rokhaya Diallo & Grace Ly
The très fantastique Rokhaya & Grace, aka Kiffe Ta Race podcasters, chat race and racism in France. Plus we hit the streets of Paris to talk burqa ban...
Westernising names, worst dates and Ahir & Emily
We go deep with comedian Ahir Shah on drinking and depression and force Asian Network presenter Emily Lloyd-Saini to share her worst dating story… and...
Therapy, county lines and Ashley Madekwe
South London girl Ashley is over from Hollywood to talk about County Lines, her new film on child drug trafficking in Britain. Plus, what happened whe...
Food, foreplay and Ainsley Harriott
Icon alert! We’ve got Mr Ready Steady Cook himself, Ainsley Harriott on food as love, food as foreplay, and being one of the first black chefs on TV....
Motherhood, Michelle and Phoebe Robinson
We’re with no ordinary B and Michelle Obama’s BFF, Phoebe Robinson. She teaches us how to beat the gatekeepers, why she’s done schooling us on sexual...
Culture vultures, empire and Phil Wang
Our favourite Wang, Phil gets personal about open relationships and his take on empire. Plus Wiley vs Ed… who’s a culture vulture?
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Cults, Hollywood and Rose McGowan
Honey, we’re home!! The BBC has given us a third series and we're going big with Hollywood legend and #MeToo silence breaker Rose McGowan.
Rose...
No Comedy For Young Women! Part 1
We've gone on holiday and we're bringing you with us! We're getting up close and personal with the hottest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival....
No Comedy For Young Women! Part 2
We've gone on holiday and we're bringing you with us! We're getting up close and personal with the hottest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival....
Big, blue and back
For one night only join us for a live showcase of comedy from the hottest talent in Edinburgh! We're bringing you stand-up from our new favourite come...
Fasting, feels and finales
The last time you’ll hear our fresh, sexy, horny voices this season! We answer your questions and crush on all the queens (and kings) we’ve had on the...
Wives, girlfriends and Sadia Azmat
It’s my turn to go solo, or should I say go poly? I share with Monty some tales of multiple partners as I explore polygamy and polyamory with the help...
Nonna, Nigeria and Monty Onanuga
I’m ditching Sadia and heading home for some jollof, jokes and feels with my fam to figure out what you miss out on when your nonna lives in Nigeria.
Dudes, dungeons and Desiree Burch
It’s UK vs USA as we eat cake with comedian and ex-dominatrix Desiree and talk finding home and losing dudes. Plus Stormzy and stereotypes.