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Sam and Ava
Every year, people all over the world hold noise demos outside prisons on New Year's Eve to remind those inside that they are not forgotten.
Bring instruments, pots & pans, and anything else that makes noise to Brixton prison, NYE, 6pm! via Prisoner Solidarity Network @psn_ldn
On this week's show Ava is in conversation with comedian Dana Alexander and Sam and Ava talk to activist Belinda Washington about the campaign to save children's centres. Find out more on Instagram SOS Lambeth Children's Centres or Twitter@LambethSOS
We spoke to Labour councillor and health educator Joshua Garfield about Fairfield school, Section 28, sex education, antisemitism in the Labour Party and where we all go from here.
Ava chats to the guys behind I AM HUMAN who are raising money for 3 charities, MIND, PCRF and ALD life by cycling approx 1,400 miles over 2 weeks! More info and support them here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/london-to-barcelona
Sam iinterview actor Stephan James on Barry Jenkins' radical empathy, James Baldwin, black love stories and British slang! Sam and Ava will be back in a new studio and with fantastic new guests in April!
IF BEALE STREET COULD is out in UK cinemas on 8th Feb
'Like James Baldwin’s Best Work, If Beale Street Could Talk Contains Multitudes Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to Moonlight, starring KiKi Layne and Stephan James as a pair of lovers torn asunder, is a triumph.'
'Barry Jenkins makes movies about black love. His 2008 debut, Medicine for Melancholy, chronicled a one-night stand turned burgeoning romance in a maddeningly gentrifying San Francisco. Moonlight, his wonderful follow-up and 2016 best-picture winner, is a coming-of-age story about a fatherless queer boy set among the impoverished Miami neighborhoods that were once home to Jenkins himself. Its endgame isn’t sex, or even necessarily sexuality, but something even more rare in movies: pure, loving intimacy between black men, sexual and not.
Now comes If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins’s extraordinary adaptation of James Baldwin’s soulful 1974 novel. It’s a lush, courageous black melodrama set in 1970s New York, a story about love defying injustice—or trying its damndest to. Tish (newcomer KiKi Layne), 19, and Fonny (Stephan James), 22, were once childhood playmates—chubby, laughing babes taking baths together, being raised alongside one another, despite yawning differences between their families’ social and religious beliefs. Fonny’s mother is extremely devout, as are his sisters. Tish and her sister, Ernestine (Teyonah Parris), are more modern: well-raised, hard-working women who nevertheless curse in front of their parents.' Vanity Fair
SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com
BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison.
Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management
'Shareefa Energy is a London-based spoken word poet and rapper. Her lyrics encapsulate brown girl power.
She brings together poetry and hip-hop in such an articulate manner, that you can’t help but get mesmerized by her work. She’s pop culture meets romanticism, desi meets angrezi, art meets power.
Not only does she bring her presence to a stage, but she expresses important issues involved with being brown, and living abroad.' Maheen Humayun , The Tempest,
SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com
BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison.
Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management
Marc Thompson, strategic lead health improvement at the Terrence Higgins Trust, co-founder of Team Prepster and co-editor of Black Out UK joins Sam and Ava for an interview about sexual health, HIV and stigma in black communities.
VIDEO Terrence Higgins Trust: https://www.youtube.com/user/THTCommunity
MUSIC Little Simz - Offence Jay Z - Lucifer Inspiration Information
SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com
BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison.
Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management
Editor in Chief of Media Diversified joins Sam and Ava for an episode dedicated to the legend, Whitney Houston!
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WHITNEY HOUSTON I Will Always Love You - it's Not Right But It's OK One Moment In Time My Name is Not Susan Saving All My Love
Poison - Bel Biv Devoe Correct - MNEK Roni - Bobby Brown
This week's guess is investigative journalist Mark Watts!
Topics covered by Ava, Sam and Mark include:The freedom of information act which Tony Blair said was his "biggest mistake", Britain's culture of secrecy and the Official Secrets Act + billionaire registered sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein and the difference between FOI in UK and USA. Our usual #HereandFabulous and #GetintheBin segment features too!
Mark Watts is a journalist who has worked for a range of national newspapers and broadcasters and is the co-ordinator of the FOIA [pronounced similar to “foyer”] Centre, a specialist research company: www.foiacentre.com. The FOIA Centre uses open-access laws, including the Freedom of Information Act and Data Protection Act, to help unearth stories for the media and uncover evidence for campaigners or legal cases.
Mark was the editor of Exaro, the investigative website, for five years. Exaro closed in 2016 because of financial problems in the group that owned it. The website exposed how senior civil servants were working off-payroll to enable them to avoid tax, sparking a huge Whitehall review and a ban on the practice. Exaro revealed a secret recording in which Rupert Murdoch admitted knowing about bribery at his newspapers for decades, a story that made waves around the world. And Exaro led the way in uncovering evidence of sexual abuse by politicians and other establishment figures, forcing the government to order the overarching inquiry into child sexual abuse.
Mark has previously worked for The Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Express as well as World in Action, where he helped to expose Jonathan Aitken, the former defence procurement minister, and has written for just about every national title. Twitter handle: @MarkWatts_1
MUSIC Little Simz - Offence Linda Lewis - Sideway Shuffle Jay Z - Lucifer Inspiration Information Fela Kuti - Confusion
SPONSOR WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com
BIOS Ava Vidal is a British comedian. She became more widely known after taking part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show. Before her television career, Vidal worked as a prison officer for five years in London's Pentonville Prison.
Samantha Asumadu is a former documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the founder of Media Diversified, the co-founder of Bare Lit Festival and CEO of Edmalia Limoted: TV., Talent and Crisis Management
A bi weekly podcast with attitude. Hosted by Ava Vidal and Samantha Asumadu With No Dickheads Allowed 😘
SPECIAL GUEST Journalist Assed Baig Assed is an investigative journalist and reporter. His stories have gained international coverage and millions of views worldwide.
He has worked in Syria, Central African Republic, Myanmar and Libya. Currently working as an international correspondent in London for TRT world, he has previously worked as a reporter for Channel 4 News and the BBC. www.assedbaig.com Twitter: @AssedBaig
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MUSIC Little Simz - Offence Linda Lewis - Sideway Shuffles Jay Z - Lucifer Inspiration Information Franco - Heritier
SPONSORS
WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com
A bi weekly podcast with attitude Hosted by Ava Vidall and Samantha Asumadu and guests talking relationships, stalkers, NDAs & politics. With No Dickheads Allowed 😘
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MUSIC Little Simz - Offence Linda Lewis - Sideway Shuffles Jay Z - Lucifer Inspiration Information Ms. Mohammed - Alibi Franco - Heritier
SPONSORS FunkyNChunky is a London based accessories brand formed in 2014 after a visit to Ghana. They work alongside local makers and entrepreneurs to produce statement jewellery and bags.
They sell handmade african print products that are made by women. Our slogan - empowering through fashion.
A percentage of their profit will support a new Saturday School in South West London (Lambeth). www.funkyNchunky.co
WAX PRINT FILM is the story of one fabric and how it came to symbolise a continent, it’s people and their struggle for freedom. A feature documentary directed by Aiwan Obinyan www.waxprintfilm.com
BOOK How to Rule the World - A handbook for the aspiting dictator, by Andre De Guillaume