VENT Weekly

For the last two days of our VENT Daily mini-series on family, we've been taken over The Blueprint Collective: a creative group of young people at the heart of Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture. This conversation, facilitated by Lauren Adeyemi, is about what it's like growing up in a bi-cultural family. You'll hear from Nellie, Boaz, Livio, Shreya, Sophie, Tyrique, Xhes, Abdal, Eunice, Loshini and Lauren.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington, with help from Amanda Fernandez, Dhiyandra Natalegawa, and the Blueprint Collective. 

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For the last two days of our VENT Daily mini-series on family, we've been taken over The Blueprint Collective: a creative group of young people at the heart of Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture. This conversation, facilitated by Lauren Adeyemi, is about family businesses. You'll hear from Livio, Xhes, Tyrique, Shreya, Abdal, Sophie, Eunice, Loshini and Lauren.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington, with help from Amanda Fernandez, Dhiyandra Natalegawa, and the Blueprint Collective. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, all on the theme of family. Today, guest host and friend of the show Kamiah Chae joins us with a question: As a queer person, what are the options for starting a family? Kamiah and Amelia talk to journalist and trans father Freddy McConnell, who hosts BBC Podcast Pride & Joy, all about how queer people have kids.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington.

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This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, and they're all about family. Today, Suprina has invited her uncle Umesh, otherwise known as NepHop rapper Mr KC, and journalist Arun Budhathoki to talk about the birth of Nepalese Rap.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington.

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This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, and they're all about family. Today, Amelia speaks to Nuradean and his cousin, Yaqoub, about their experience of accidentally going viral. They also speak to writer and filmmaker Oobah Butler about how he made going viral into an art form.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington.

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This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day. We're taking some time to talk about family and today, we're talking twins. Amelia has invited her twin sister Amber, and musical duo and identical twins J-Unity onto the show, to talk about what it's like growing up as a twin.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington.

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This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, all on the theme of family. To start us off, Santos and Nuradean speak to Vivi, Santos' mum, about her experience of breast cancer. They also speak to Cancer Counsellor Alice Bulman about the importance of communication about cancer in families.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington.

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In the second part of our conversation about the human cost of the pandemic in the UK, events move closer to home. In this episode, 27 year old Harlesden Councillor and Brent local, Joshua Murray,  shares the impact of COVID19 in Church End, where 36 people have died of the disease. Also featuring Sam Knight of the New Yorker and young Brent resident Maryam: with host Amelia the conversation turns towards change. 

This episode is part of our bonus Covid-19 Fact Checkers mini-series which aims to answer your questions and anxieties around Covid-19.

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The UK has one of the highest death tolls in Europe and, for 19 year old Brent resident Maryam, some of those numbers were people she knew. With the input of New Yorker Journalist Sam Knight and Harlesden Councillor Joshua Murray, she and VENT host Amelia hold the UK’s response to Covid-19 to account.

Part of our new Covid-19 Fact Checkers mini-series which aims to answer your questions and anxieties around Covid-19.

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Today we're thinking about who we see in the media and who we don't. We invited founder of South Asian Creatives (and one of the VENT Production Team!) Moeed Majeed, and broadcaster, writer and actor Mim Shaikh to talk about the underrepresentation of South Asian people int the British and American media.

This episode was produced by the VENT Production Team: Jess Lawson, Emilia Gill, Moeed Majeed and Arlie Adlington.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.