S1 Ep3: Where's Home Really... for Big Zuu?

03/16/23 • 34 min

“I gave Harry Redknapp plantain. The man who fielded the most African players, and not one of them ever said “Here’s some stew?!” That was my ting.”
Jimi welcomes the larger-than-life rapper, musician, and star of the award-winning TV show, ‘Big Zuu’s Big Eats’ to the podcast.
Alongside his trademark humour, Big Zuu gives an insight into why he took on the responsibility of finding his family a home aged just 14, his experience of race and class in the TV industry, and why his BAFTA speech was more important than the award itself.
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S1 Ep2: Where's Home Really... for Asma Khan?

"I was fat and dark and not very pretty and not graceful. And that was so very different to how girls were supposed to be in my family.”
Star of Netflix's Chef's Table, author, and acclaimed restaurateur Asma Khan is known for London’s popular Darjeeling Express - where her all-women kitchen breaks taboos in Indian culture.
She joins Jimi to discuss how her refusal to accept the traditional place for women in her birth country has driven her UK success. Plus, we discover the part The Beatles, and discovering ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ on VHS play in developing a love and understanding of her home-from-home.
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“I fell in love with Wetherspoons when I discovered ‘Steak Club’. I then took my parents and my dad loved it so much that he tried to steal a menu to show his friends!”
Stand-up comedian, writer and actor in films like ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’, Evelyn Mok takes Jimi on a colourful journey through her mixed Chinese, Indian and Swedish heritage.
A self-confessed Anglophile, Evelyn reveals how she was shaped by her resilient grandmother who worked as a “backstreet dentist”, her beloved pilgrimages to IKEA, and the impact a certain hit US sitcom had on her own understanding of growing up as part of a minority culture.
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