In this week's episode we explore marriage with Nickeeta Gordan and Amlak RedSquare of Music and Marriage podcast. In today's times it feels like people are moving further and further away from the ideal of marriage. What does love mean in the context of marriage? And how does corona times affect it? Music by Amlak RedSquare Official on YouTube and search for Music and Marriage podcast. A huge thanks to them both and be sure to check it out https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-marriage-podcast/id1505036637

In today's episode your host Kate Cheka goes on an exploration of the local finding what love during this time means to the people around here. It features the voices of Lance who works in a shop in Frome, Obby who is a glassblower and boater and Liz who comes to help my mother with the garden every week. With editing and music composition by Tim Maryon @timmaryon on Instagram. If you have a story you would like to submit then please reach out at [email protected]

It has been another exhausting week with the continued protests and momentum building for #BlackLivesMatter so this episode explores mental health, family history and sex as a means to cope. It features the voices of Sailesh Naidu @sailesh_n, Tobi Adebajo @tobiadebajo and comedians Gauri @be_gauri and Freddi @freddi_gralle. We talk love and sex in communities of colour, forgetting your porn premium password and posh dildos. Music and sound effects by Sams N, Podington Bear and Arnaud Coutancier. Find your host Kate Cheka @katecheka on Instgram, Facebook and Twitter or email us at [email protected]

In response to the events of the last weeks, the murders of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor and Tony McDade killed by police in the US, this episode continues with Love as Solidarity this time: #BlackLivesMatter. It features recordings from filmmaker and director Mhla Ncube @malelevision, the poet @humanityinpoetry, black women podcasters Rhea and Goitsy @tantitablepodcast, Edna Bonhomme from Decolonization in Action @bonhomme, Ropa @afrocombpodcast and Cassianne @tonesofmelanintv. Finally I check in with my friend Ina from episode one. Music by Sams N, song Crocodile Baby Boy. To all my black people out there, look after yourselves and one another #BlackLivesMatter #BLM

In this episode I reach out to my friend Samie to find out how different activist groups in Berlin have been dealing with the corona crisis. This is love as solidarity. Thank you to Kenneth Okonkwo at the Lagos Covid-19 Prevention Hygiene Project, Esther and Lydia at IJM, Jacque at  the Bloque Latinoamericano Berlin and Jane, Doris and Sarah at Women in Exile for their contributions. The music by Art Boys Collection, Ryoma Maeda, Carlos Carty and Tim Maryon. Protest sounds from the climate strike in Guildford and the demonstration in response to the assassination of Marielle Franco in Sao Paulo. Please share this episode using the hashtags #DecolonizeCoronaCrisis #LeaveNoOneBehind #SocialDistanceIsAPrivilege

This episode I return home and start to question what love means. So I invite three Berin-based artists who I personally admire for their thoughts on love and what it means in this moment. It features the voices of Júpiter who you may know as the drag queen Vanessa Júpiter, poet/comedian/yoga teacher Daddypuss Rex and historian of science, lecturer and writer (and host of the podcast Decolonization in Action) Edna Bonhomme. This episode features music composed by Tim Maryon, the song Kimberly's Mine by Son Little and the sound 'Train Passing, Left to Right' by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org.As usual you can find me @katecheka on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook and [email protected]

This episode continues the theme of platonic love and explores our relationships in the home. Featuring conversations with Lily at The Enoki Tribe and her housemate Ruta, an interview with my quarantine housemate Liliana Velásquez and a kind message from a faraway friend. To hear more of Lily and Ruta check out @enokitribepodcast on Instagram, for updates from Liliana and Sunday Slips follow @freudianslipclub and as usual you can find me @katecheka on Instagram and Facebook or send your stories to [email protected]. Our music is by Ketsa and our cover photo by Johanna Makowski.

The original non-sexual platonic gay couple Wayne and Alex interview each other about their friendship. As I referenced them so often I thought you all deserve to meet them properly for yourselves so hear they are answering my questions about their relationship. Our music is by Ketsa and the track is titled Mission Ready. You can get in touch with your stories of platonic love at [email protected] or find me, your host @katecheka on Instagram and Facebook.

This episode is all about the difficulties dating during Covid-19 and features comedian Ben Maclean, Rosie Wilby host of The Breakup Monologues podcast and author of Is Monogamy Dead? And Tyrone Stallone is the love doctor at his online show Crazy, Stupid Berlin ;) Our music is by KieLoKaz the song is called Alte Herren and is sourced from the freemusicarchive.org. As usual you can get in touch via [email protected] or find your host Kate Cheka @katecheka on Instagram and Facebook.

This episode is all about how to adjust to the new reality we're living in. First we have a piece written by Aïssa Sica who runs the project People Racializadas. Then a submission from Nick at Corner Späti and one from Jordana Del Feld about Domestic Violence, so careful if that is a trigger for you. FInally we finish up with a meditation from Lily at The Enoki Tribe another Berlin-based podcast. As usual you can get in touch via [email protected] or find your host Kate Cheka @katecheka on Instagram and Twitter