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Mixed Up

Oct 25, 2023

The one where you put the key in the door and you're home

The theme for this year's Black History Month is Salute Your Sisters, and this week Emma and Nicole are joined by the highly celebrated Kit de Waal for Mixed Up Book Club. Kit's critically acclaimed novel, My Name is Leon, about a mixed-race, nine-year-old boy...


Oct 18, 2023

The one where it looks like everybody has 'Allychip' fatigue

The theme for this year's Black History Month is Salute Your Sisters, and this week Emma and Nicole can't help but salute the original babygirl, Kelechi Okafor - author, actress and public speaker. Her debut book Edge of Here aims to bring Black women a sense...


Oct 11, 2023

The one where we talk to a Black British icon born of a Black British icon

REPLAY: This Black History Month, Emma and Nicole speak to actress Lenora Crichlow - a Black British icon herself and daughter of Black British icon Frank Crichlow, owner of the Mangrove and one of the Mangrove 9. You may have recently connected...


Oct 4, 2023

The one where you're descendant from escaped enslaved Africans who joined forces with the Seminoles in the 1700s

Emma and Nicole speak to Caitlin Bellah, a photographer and artist who shares the story of her linage and how she was inspired to investigate it by this very podcast.

She is a descendant of the Freedmen who...