![]() ![]() ![]() Congratulations to them and the whole production team.Fear is a natural and essential part of growth. Vent’s young presenters, aged 16 to 20, had never hosted before but made some fantastic shows on identity: touching, intimate and honest. ![]() There were some excellent winners, especially the overall podcast of the year: Vent Documentaries, the show from Vice made as part of Brent’s programme of events when it was the London Borough of Culture 2020. Just room to mention the British Podcast awards, which took place on Saturday afternoon in Brockwell park, Brixton. But this is a warm and welcoming show, with interesting interviewees (comedian Rosie Jones is next). A more specific description of what Bimini said about gender on Drag Race, for instance, or a more detailed set-up for Skin (I don’t think Skunk Anansie was actually mentioned once by name). The chats are intimate and revealing, though a little more signposting might be needed for listeners who aren’t quite as au fait as Fussell. His guests are people he finds inspiring, and so far he’s talked to Skin from Skunk Anansie and Bimini Bon Boulash of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK fame. Fussell isn’t massively well known outside the LGBTQ scene, though he has hosted the fab Radio 1 podcast Drag Queens’ Den and certainly knows how to be a wonderful host. Glyn Fussell, co-creator of inclusive, messy drag club night Sink the Pink and the excellent queer festival Mighty Hoopla, has a new interview podcast, We Can Be Heroes. And their definition of rich isn’t quite as money-oriented as I’d assumed. I am not at all like either of these exceptionally motivated women, but listening to them makes me think anything’s possible. Her first interviewee, Eshita Kabra, who set up the clothes rental site By Rotation, was similarly formidable. ![]() In fact no one came for several weeks, but Barlow continued until they did. Later, she realised she had no contacts, and indeed, no friends, so she set up a brunch for other entrepreneurial women. After university she applied for hundreds of jobs, but got nowhere: whenever she landed an interview, she was always told that she’d get bored within a few months. What elevates is Barlow’s upbeat honesty. This didn’t really stop throughout the whole show. Her opening salvo – that she’s here to tell us “how to get started, how to get ahead and, most importantly, how to get rich” – made me feel as if I was being blown off my feet by a hurricane of capitalist positivity. The BBC’s Asian Network has been going through a few changes, and her show, The Everyday Hustle, started last week. More determination to overcome the odds, this time from the fearsomely dynamic business coach Sonya Barlow. ‘A hurricane of capitalist positivity’: Sonya Barlow. Though it didn’t win any prize money, Le did a Kickstarter to raise funds for sound equipment and camping gear – and tada! – this is the result. This is such a great show, selected by Spotify’s Sound Up accelerator programme for aspiring women of colour podcasters three years ago. Later in the same episode, Le talks to Rocio Villalobos about why fewer non-white people from Austin go for walks outdoors: they were deliberately housed away from the greenbelt, for a start. One, Le describes why immigrant families won’t know that you have to book and two, when her ex-boyfriend’s mother later said “Ivy ‘took care’ of the Mexicans”, Le knew she didn’t want to be part of that family. But another family were using one of the barbecues – a Mexican family – and because Le can speak Spanish, she was asked by her ex-boyfriend’s mother if she could explain to them that that space was already booked. The family had reserved a couple of outdoor tables and barbecues so they could make a meal. In the most recent episode, Le opens with a story about going to a lake with an ex-boyfriend and his family. Why do black and Asian people feel that they have to change themselves in order to fit in with the right way of “doing” nature? What are they actually preparing or changing themselves for? Gradually, she starts to unpack just why it is that non-white Americans might be hesitant to venture into nature. But Le is doing something other than just cheering us up for half an hour. Her script and asides are hilarious, and she’s an immensely entertaining listen – she gets stuck in a sleeping bag, and feels sympathy for predators on David Attenborough programmes (“they probably have performance anxiety”). But Le, an Austin-based comedian, is so charismatic, funny and clever that Fogo turns into something else. ![]()
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