In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Martin (he/him) joins me to talk about being Wasian and what it means to claim that identity rather than slip between two halves.

In just over half an hour, we get into his experience growing up around the top 10% of Beijing, what the real China looks like from someone whose family is only on the periphery of it, and whether being Wasian is the kind of identity that needs to be affirming in the UK.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Gobi (she/her) joins me as half Singaporean and half Hongkonger. With what's been ranked the most powerful passport in the world, to talk about what brought her to the UK and what she's noticed since arriving.

In just over half an hour, we get into the strange culture shocks of British life (regional accents, the clubbing scene), the McDonald's shake-shake bags that don't exist outside Hong Kong, and the slower, harder work of building community when you arrive somewhere new.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Anmol (he/him) joins me to talk about growing up Asian in the northeast of England and what that experience looks like when most of the British Asian conversation defaults to Birmingham or London.

In just over half an hour, we get into the small ways your Asianness gets shaped by where you grow up, his unexpected love for Mahjong and East Asian culture, and a proper deep-dive into Indian classical music, which Anmol now teaches.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Yusrah (she/her) joins me to talk about what it means to be British Pakistani and how that identity sits differently for someone who didn't grow up in Pakistan.

In just over half an hour, we get into the small customs that quietly mark us as Asian. Like taking off your shoes, always sharing food the unspoken rule about giving seconds and the way her mother turned hospitality into an art form allowing it to shape her own instincts when she left home for university.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Samah (she/her) joins me to talk about growing up in Pakistan, moving to Dubai, and landing at a UK university and what each of those places taught her about who she is. In just over half an hour, we get into the FOB accent, the obvious "international" one, the strange exposure of cooking your own food for the first time at uni, and the privilege you don't quite see until you've left it behind.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Mithun (he/him) joins me to ask the question Asian families don't tend to: why don't we talk about how we feel?

In just over half an hour, we get into the strange contradiction at the heart of South Asian culture. The cinema full of love stories. The lived reality of arranged marriages and quiet grief. The joke culture we inherit: funny, sharp, often loving and sometimes cuts deeper than we admit. And we end on Mithun’s thoughts: on Kendrick, art, and whether any of it can actually move us.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Linh (she/her) joins me and at one point, turns the conversation around on me.

We get into what it's like to travel the world on one of its weakest passports: the visa applications, the airport security stories, and the quiet anxiety of borders that don't open as easily for some of us as for others. In just over half an hour, we also touch on Linh's life in the UK, what assimilation has felt like from her side, and somehow… frogs.

In this episode of the British Asian - Other Podcast [BAO], Kelli Wu (she/her) joins me on what it's been like to acclimatise to the UK as a Hongkonger and what she's noticed about British Asian identity from the outside looking in.

In just over half an hour, we get into the things you can only really say in Cantonese, why so many British Asians can't speak the language their parents grew up with, and the bigger question hanging over Kelli's generation: what happens to Cantonese and to Hong Kong culture itself... in the years to come.