Brown Baby Podcast
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsHow do we raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain and – let’s face it – increasingly bleak times?
This is the question explored in weekly podcast Brown Baby, hosted by writer (and dad of two) Nikesh Shukla. Inspired by his forthcoming memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home, each week Nikesh invites fellow parents of brown babies - writers, musicians, chefs, comedians, actors and more - to talk about their parenting journeys and the highs and lows they’ve experienced along the way.
A frank, funny and poignant look at parenting, Brown Baby will spark honest, self-effacing conversation about how we tell our kids about the world. Featuring parenting fails, plus the best (and worst) advice Nikesh and his guests have ever received, this is the comforting, uplifting podcast for anyone who’s ever found themselves searching for answers in a sleep-deprived Google hole.
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Episodes
Season 2 Episode 6: Meredith Broussard and Your Own Minecraft Server
September 14, 2021 23:16 - 50 minutes - 49.4 MBThis week's guest is Meredith Broussard. Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and the author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.” Her academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting and ethical AI, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. Sh...
Season 2 Episode 5: Tahmima Anam And Scary Dads
September 07, 2021 23:02 - 55 minutes - 57.5 MBThis week I talk to the incredible author Tahmima Anam. Tahmima is the author of four novels. Her most recent one, The Startup Wife, is a hilarious skewering of the sexism of the tech industry. It follows Asha Ray, the inventor of a new utopian app, who soon finds herself sidelined in her own work, and starts to wonder why. Tahmima is such a lovely, funny, brilliant warm person to talk to. We talk about letting our kids use tablets, if they understand what we do for a living and the tech ind...
Season 2 Episode 4: Andi Oliver And Dancing In Your Kitchen
August 31, 2021 23:02 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBWelcome to season 2 episode 4 of Brown Baby podcast. I am your host Nikesh Shukla. I’m a dad of two, the author of the memoir Brown Baby and a man who hasn’t touched his duolingo app in months. I’ll never learn Spanish. This week’s guest is Andi Oliver. We speak about her relationship with her daughter, Miquita Oliver, about her childhood, and her parents, and about the importance of food.Award winning TV Chef and Broadcaster Andi Oliver enjoys a rich & varied career, with food and music bein...
Season 2 Episode 3: Sarfraz Manzoor And The Lighter Side
August 24, 2021 23:02 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBWelcome to the Brown Baby podcast;This week’s guest is the journalist Sarfraz Manzoor.Sarfraz is the author of the recently released book, They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other, where he goes journeys around Britain in search of the roots of this division - from the fear that Islam promotes violence, to the suspicion that Muslims wish to live segregated lives, to the belief that Islam is fundamentally misogynistic.The Bruce Springsteen obsessed journalist is also the a...
Season 2 Episode 2: Ben Bailey-Smith And Shouting Out PC World
August 17, 2021 23:02 - 58 minutes - 41.3 MBWelcome to season 2 episode 2 of Brown Baby podcast. I am your host, Nikesh Shukla. This week's guest: Ben Bailey Smith. The rapper, the actor the writer. Known as Doc Brown, Ben has been a legend on the rap scene, an actor popping up in places like Law and Order UK, Des The Split and Four O Clock Club. He is a stand up. And now a writer of hilarious kids books like the recently released Something I Said, a hilarious book where or thirteen-year-old Carmichael Taylor, life is one big joke - i...
Season 2 Episode 1: Shobna Gulati And Football Team Crises
August 10, 2021 23:03 - 1 hour - 40 MBWelcome to season 2 episode 1 of Brown Baby podcast. This week's guest is actress and writer, Shobna Gulati. She is best known for dinnerladies, for Coronation Street, Loose Women, Celebrity Masterchef, and many more. She also wrote a memoir that came out this year called Remember Me?, which is a beautiful and sad book about losing a parent to dementia based on her experiences caring for her mother, who died in 2019.[9] During publicity interviews for the book, Gulati revealed that she had c...
Season 1 Episode 16: Josie Long And RomComs Starring Christian Bale
April 27, 2021 23:02 - 56 minutes - 55.2 MBThis week's guest is stand-up comedian, writer and actor, Josie Long. One of the funniest, more special people I know. Always there with positivity, soul, wisdom and jokes. Josie has been one of the most important people in my life and I get to chat to her in this SEASON FINALE of the Brown Baby podcast. We talk about climate change, the internet, why Christian Bale has never been in a romcom and the worst things we've done as parents. THIS IS THE SEASON FINALE SO IT'S MY LAST CHANCE TO PLU...
Season 1 Episode 15: Hari Kunzru And Gone-Off Melon
April 20, 2021 23:01 - 48 minutes - 59.4 MBThis week's guest is acclaimed award-winning novelist, Hari Kunzru. One of my favourite writers, someone who asks big questions about the world. Who better to get on to the podcast than someone as smart as him. We discuss internet surveillance, kids arguing about god, gone-off melon and his new novel, Red Pill, which is a paranoid novel about art and why we tell stories, and far right radicalisation. It's an exceptional book. Welcome to Brown Baby, a podcast about parenting and kids and fam...
Season 1 Episode 14: Mira Jacob And Floaty Parents
April 13, 2021 23:01 - 56 minutes - 42.5 MBThis week's guest is: Mira Jacob. Mira is an author that I absolutely adore. Her writing is funny, tender, close to my experience. When I was writing Brown Baby, I came across her graphic memoir, Good Talk, which is a series of conversations between her and her mixed race child, about racism in Trump’s America. She talks about losing her father, trying to make her white in-laws understand what is happening in the country and her journey to self-acceptance. It’s brilliant. (TW: grief, racism...
Season 1 Episode 13: Paterson Joseph And Swearing At Teachers
April 06, 2021 23:01 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBThis week's guest is the brilliant actor and writer Paterson Joseph! Johnson in Peep Show, Holy Wayne in The Leftovers. The star of so many television shows and plays, Paterson is an incredible presence onscreen and onstage, and a great thinker. This week, we talk about fatherhood, growing up, returning to the place you grew up in, raising mixed race kids in rural France and his obsession with Ignatius Sancho. Be warned, there is a lot of swearing at the start and end of this podcast, and th...
Season 1 Episode 12: Dr Pragya Agarwal And The Need To Talk
March 30, 2021 23:01 - 43 minutes - 33.7 MBThis week my guest is writer and thinker Dr Pragya Agarwal. She is the author of the amazing book about unconscious bias, Sway, and the super helpful and practical Wish We Knew What To Say, a book that gives parents the tools to have conversations with their kids about race. It’s a must-have. Not just for the parents of brown babies. But for all parents. We should all be having these conversations. She also has a part-memoir, part exploration about what it is to be a woman, out in summer 202...
Season 1 Episode 11: Anoushka Shankar And Tables Of Paper
March 24, 2021 00:01 - 48 minutes - 39.5 MBThis week I talk to Anoushka Shankar, multi-award-winning sitarist, composer, producer, activist. We talk about her life as a touring musician raising kids, raising two boys, her relationship with her father Ravi Shankar and how she has been talking to her kids about their identities. How do we raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain and – let’s face it – increasingly bleak times? This is the question explored in weekly podcast Brown Baby, hosted by writer (and dad of two) Nikesh S...
Season 1 Episode 10: Emma-Lee Moss (Emmy The Great) And Time To Wash Up
March 17, 2021 00:01 - 42 minutes - 47.3 MBThis week's guest is Emma-Lee Moss (Emmy The Great), a dear friend of Nikesh's. Emma and Nikesh talk about what it was like to tour with a newborn, how having a baby changed her life and excessive internet usage! Emma is an award-winning musician, film composer and writer, who has recorded four acclaimed studio albums as Emmy The Great, and scored films like Austenland and sitcoms like Sara Pascoe's Out Of Her Mind. Her latest album is April/月音 How do we raise our kids with joy and wonder i...
Season 1 Episode 9: Derek A Bardowell And Sporting Prowess
March 10, 2021 00:10 - 51 minutes - 53.3 MBThis week's guest is Derek A. Bardowell, author of the book, No Win Race, a deeply personal exploration into the complexities and biases implicit in being black in Britain, told through the prism of sport. It was a Sunday Times and a Financial Times sports book of the year. Derek is a great writer and a lovely person to talk to. We spoke about the power of sport, trying to get our kids to be into the same stuff as us and also, the things our immigrant parents went through. It’s a gorgeous ch...
Season 1 Episode 8: Kelechi Okafor And Creative Sparks
March 03, 2021 00:02 - 45 minutes - 37.7 MBThis week we welcome writer, actor, speaker and person behind Kelechnekoff studio, Kelechi Okafor to the podcast. We speak about being present, where Kelechi draws her creative spark from and how she establishes boundaries when it comes to social media usage when with her child. Kelechi is a recent contributor to the anthology, 'Who's Loving You', love stories by women of colour, edited by Sareeta Domingo, which is out now on Trapeze Books. She can be found at @kelechnekoff on most social m...
Season 1 Episode 7: Max Porter And Dickhead Dads
February 24, 2021 00:02 - 48 minutes - 38.3 MBThis week I talk to the incredible writer Max Porter about raising boys, about the responsibilities of a parent, social media paranoia, and what to do when your kids treat you like a dickhead. We're good pals so this is a chat between friends vibesy episode. Max is the author of the new book, The Death Of Francis Bacon as well as Grief Is The Thing With Feathers and Lanny. I am the author of Brown Baby and other things. How do we raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain and – let’s f...
Season 1 Episode 6: Courttia Newland And Inventors Of Robots
February 17, 2021 00:02 - 50 minutes - 48.1 MBWelcome to the Brown Baby podcast! This week, we talk to the legendary writer Courttia Newland about growing up in West London, being a 'firm father', kids and technology and curiosity. Also, Nikesh gets all tongue-tied trying to explain to Courttia the impact he has had on his life. Courttia was involved in the anthology that was first to publish Nikesh's work. And Nikesh gets all teary and tongue-tried trying to express this. Courttia was the writer of two Small Axe films including the ic...
Season 1 Episode 5: Kit de Waal And Seeing Yourself
February 10, 2021 00:02 - 39 minutes - 34.8 MBWelcome to the Brown Baby podcast! This week, we talk to award-winning writer Kit de Waal about growing up mixed race in the Midlands in the 60s, raising mixed race kids, adopting kids, the power of seeing yourself, and writing. An illuminating look at the creative genius of an exceptional writer. Kit is the author of My Name Is Leon, The Trick To Time, Becoming Dinah and the recent short story collection, Supporting Cast. She also edited the anthology Common People. Nikesh is a writer and ...
Season 1 Episode 4: Himesh Patel And The Line In The Sand
February 04, 2021 00:01 - 48 minutes - 36.6 MBSURPRISE PUBLICATION DAY EPISODE! Seeing as Brown Baby is published today, here's a second episode of the week for you to enjoy. This time it's week with new father Himesh Patel. Himesh is an actor who has been in Yesterday, Tenet, Eastenders and many other things. In this episode we talk about being a new dad, the chaos of parenthood and what it all means. It's a very intimate personal conversation between two dear friends. Enjoy. How do we raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain a...
Season 1 Episode 3: Nadiya Hussain And Pickling Everything
February 03, 2021 00:01 - 54 minutes - 45 MBThis week's guest is Nadiya Hussain, MBE. She is the author of six recipe books, the most recent being the delicious Nadiya Bakes. She has written a novel, a picture book and a memoir as well as hosting her own television shows on the BBC. She is one of the most gloriously kind and generous and warm hearted people in the world. She talks to Nikesh about establishing boundaries during lockdown, what it's like being an 'icon, her childhood kitchen and what her kids do in the kitchen. How do w...
Season 1 Episode 2: Meera Syal And Worlds Of Imagination
January 27, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 44.9 MBThis week, we talk to the incredible Meera Syal about being a parent to two kids of different ages and how each one presented new challenges and ways of being a parent. She talks about raising one as a single parent and another as a boy. She talks about her childhood in the Midlands and the world of imagination she built for herself, about role models in the industry and the impact of her work through the years, whether it be Goodness Gracious Me or her novel Anita And Me. She offers advice ...
Season 1 Episode 1: Jay Sean And Goofy Dads
January 20, 2021 01:00 - 54 minutes - 46.4 MBIn the first episode of Brown Baby, Nikesh talks to international pop star Jay Sean about being a fun dad, cracking jokes with your kids, discipline and how sometimes when you spot parents doing bad parenting, it's probably none of your business, pal. Jay Sean is a singer, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for the hits 'Down', 'Ride It' and 'Eyes On You'. Three platinum records, many number ones and a legion of fans, Jay is one of the most famous popstars on the planet. N...
Brown Baby Trailer
November 18, 2020 06:30 - 2 minutes - 2.52 MBSeason 1 of the Brown Baby podcast, hosted by Nikesh Shukla is coming in January 2021! Subscribe now! How do we raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain and – let’s face it – increasingly bleak times? This is the question explored in weekly podcast Brown Baby, hosted by writer (and dad of two) Nikesh Shukla. Inspired by his forthcoming memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home, each week Nikesh invites fellow parents of brown babies - writers, musicians, chefs, comedian...