The Black Sterring

"The world changes, revolutionaries die and the children forget..." It is the turn of a sheer rock star! Join us as we chat about Sankofa and try to peel our jaws off the floor about a Thandiswa Mazwai in life hey.    #KingTha #Music #BlackSterring #BSRadio #BlackPodcast

We couldn't put Supacell down! These South London darkies go from super regular to super heroic but will their superpowers really save anything? This podcast may or may not have the answers, sway.  Listen. To. Us.   #BlackSterring #BSRadio #Supacell

"A white woman can have your sorry ass!" Robin Stokes You guessed it, we went back in time and looked at the seminal melodrama that is Waiting To Exhale, back when eff bois were respectfully called philanderers.  Listen. To. Us.  #BlackSterring #BSRadio

Queenie lives a life, okay. Much like you. From being dumped to being the only black. Why mama why!!    Listen. To. Us.  #BlackSterring #BSRadio #Queenie

We're reporting live from Ogilvy Pride for this one!    #BlackSterring #BSRadio #Pride

Are there any queers in here? Happy Pride to ya! Pride month may nearly be over, but not before we add our 50 pence.    #BlackSterring #BSRadio #Pride

They've finally made the Bob Marley movie ya'll. Join us in the comments section as we weigh in on the lifetime of a much-loved revolutionary in the music biopic One Love. Listen. To. Us.  #BlackSterring #BSRadio #OneLove

Just a normal day at work here as the official Zoe Modiga stan account. We're listening to her third album Nomthandazo alongside her enchanting body of work.  Listen. To. Us.  #BlackSterring #BSRadio #Jazz #ZoeModiga

The Vince Staples Show is what comes out when you unpack the ice cream truck song. We don't know what's happening but we're listening...   Listen. To. Us #BlackSterring #BSRadio

Wozani la! We're sat at the comments section chatting and getting distracted by all things current, cultured and cooked. Get in already!    Listen. To. Us.   #BlackSterring #BSRadio #PopCulture #CatchUp

Happy 50 episodes Sterrings! In da ghetto is where they'd like to keep us, in their imaginations. We look at American Fiction and why black stories can't just catch a break from the incredibly gaslighting white gaze.    Listen. To. Us. #BlackStering #BSRadio

Mea Culpa! If there is a Black card, then Tyler Perry made it by folding white A4 paper in half and scribbling on it with a permanent marker because who cares about good writing? We finally down tools and go through the case of TP, the black history icon of our time on the one hand, and an entire writers-room-in-one on the other.  Listen. To. Us. #BlackSterring #BSRadio

That's right, it's BS. Seducing and scheming is cancelled and they've taken Rap Shit away from us. But, as you know my dhiye, they've stolen much more. Why Sway?     Listen. To. Us.  #BlackSterring #BSRadio

Welcome to 2024 blacks! It's definitely not the first of Jan but it's the month of black people and love somewhere in the world.  As such and the like, we're looking at the big one; Black Love in Film and why it exists alongside pain and terror? drink up!    Listen. To. Us.  #BlackSterring #BSRadio

From the Robert Glasper we deserved to the one we got, we go off several questionable tangents on here today because who needs another long ass catch up? We do. Us and you. Let's!    Listen. To. Us.

...and is The Blackening the only Horror movie where a black ain't the first to die? Seriously world?    Listen. To. Us.

We watched Painkiller on Netflix and now we're judging the local chemist from behind our spectacles, frankly.   $h!t's bad and $h!t sucks   Listen. To. Us.

A lot can happen in a month like rediscovering Barbie as a feminist icon for us millennial elders chile. Join us as we catch up, mix it up, work it out, sit on it.    Listen. To. Us.

Whether we're tiktoking about it, watching it or bearing the brunt of it, we all seem to be adulting at varying degrees of chaos? We weigh in on Showmax Original, Adulting, for some answers.  Join us for this special episode as we talk our sh$t into the mics of Spotify's Greasy Tunes Cafe. Check out their superb pop up of chats, live music, quiz nights and more at the old Great Dane for the vibes's.    #SpotifyGreasyTunes #Adulting #blacksterring #podcast

Interview with Stephané Alexandre. Black British culture stays on our minds, from the film to the music to the glow. Stay till the end as we chomp it up with writer/director based in the UK, Stephané Alexandre. She's also talks The Perfect Knight, her new EPK - a black British romcom set for production and release soon!

Black British culture stays on our minds, from the film to the music to the glow. Stay till the end as we chomp it up with writer/director based in the UK, Stephané Alexandre. She's also talks The Perfect Knight, her new EPK - a black British romcom set for production and release soon!

We're here and queer, having a close to perfect Pride month! Finally sitting down with the Barry Jenkins, Academy award-winning masterpiece, Moonlight. Happy New Moon!

"La musique est mon sweetest tabou" - Tabou by Les Nubians The music is always so sweet, even when it isn't. This week we escape into ditties old and new. If only we could actually press play on air. But you can, so go ahead and press repeat:)      Listen. To. Us.

It's not right and it's not okay and writers will not make it anyway! Let's talk about the Writers Strike, shall we?

...or rather, where is the line with you?  This week we hop scotch over the minefield that is SWARM! Eminem gave us the Stan the Fan. Now we meet Dre.    Listen. To. Us.

Y'oll the rumours are true, we're a radio ting now. Nothing much's changed, just more carrying on, but sometimes dedicated to music, art and other stories we like.  To start us out, we're talking firsts. Stay! Phuzani lapho?

After many twists and turns, we're finally having look-see at Wakanda Forever next to The Woman King.  S/O to all this gaddam black pigment, okey?  Get into this gossip.

We're taking a sexy tangent this time as we put our private eye on Showmax Original, This Body Works For Me.  This one is only for fans.   Listen. To. Us.

Our two penny-farthings on the Grammy's, but mostly everything else.    Listen. To. Us.

1st off, 2 things...  "Happy New Year everybadeh! Happy New Year to the gworls out there!" - Happy Summer Song TKZee "Every nigger is a star!" - Boris Gardiner Get in to the material mngerr. We're catching up and talking awards.  Welcome to Black Sterring Radio. Let's go.

A round  up... well, round about of what we fux'd with this year.  Clap for us, we appropriated the cool lingo of the kids today, yay!    Merry merry you Black Stars!

What happened to theme music? We sure do miss a good old title track. The famous era of UPN sitcoms like Moesha, Girlfriends, Fresh Prince (you know, the ones we're always carryin' on about) gave us jingly bops, but we also talk stylistics and the many devices that add value to screen play. Lez gow!   Listen. To. Us.

Phrases like "melting pot" and "multicultural" have been used (to death) to describe our entertainment industry. The way we watch TV has changed, but has it changed along with the first world? Does it even need to? Is it even all that deep?    Listen. To. Us.

Gather around now children, it's a teaching moment. Starring the hilarious, laugh out loud cast of ABC's Primetime Emmy Award winner, Abbott Elementary, it's our first peep into mockumentary as genre. Created by Quinta Brunson. What a stand up, stand out cast!    Listen. To. Us.

One thing about that Issa, Miss Rae... she's a giver. Back with another fighter. HBO original RapSh!t transports us to the black side of Miami where palm trees meet a hustling-ass reality for Mia, Shauna, Chastity and the girls.   Seduce, schemers!  #Issa #RapShit

Bazalwane, our journey today brings us to the end, to endings. But also to beginnings.   "We spend the rest of our lives looking back, trying to be back in time." -Jack Pearson  This Is Us, it's a wrap. When did you not cry?    Listen. To. Us.

Show runner and #Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil is a black woman as well as a writer, which means we're already on the same winning team. But, even as we look up to her, we take a look at the comrade's body of work and ask Mara why? and other bad puns.    Listen. To. Us.

Rotten Tomatoes calls Run The World (Starz) a series about black women striving for world domination but wethinks Beyonce left out the part about how tricky it is for us to get in formation! Okay enough. Listen. To. Us.

Rebooting the eighties and nineties is a tall ask. But when you replace boots with imagination, Fresh Prince spin off Bel Air is what you get. Lez diggy in!

Another two-parter, in this episode we take a closer look at the new wife and the politics of the matriarch. What does it really mean to be a wife in this very South Africa context? It's a long story ya'll.    Ziyakhala more!    #TheWifeShowmax #Hlomu

We are gathered here today, to witness a marriage of wives, their abusers, a brotherhood and other tales from Showmax's hotly original, The Wife. Adapted from Dudu Busani-Dube's Hlomu Series.  Ziyakhala la!    #TheWifeShowmax #Hlomu

Can the real master please stand up?  We're looking at Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang's Master Of None and the grey areas that gave birth to even more grey areas. Love a good set of grey areas!  ~ consent, love, modern romance,    Listen to us everywhere: linktr.ee/blacksterring

"if you knew the end was coming, how would make the most of your time left?" - Kelli Prenny insecure, endings, beginnings

Season five is here and almost out of the door! But before the end, we look back at our day ones, their arcs, lows and pivots... and reflect. It's a long goodbye in three parts. For part three, we're looking at the family that carried us through. Where would we be without Kelly, Tiffany, Derek, Chad, Ahmal and lest we forget, Daniel? We've been spoilt!    Listen to us everywhere: linktr.ee/blacksterring   Follow us on @blacksterring   #InsecureHBO

Season five is here and almost out of the door! But before the end, we look back at our day ones, their arcs, lows and pivots... and reflect. It's a long goodbye in three parts. Next on the hit list is Molly Carter! Now, was she always the best friend from hell or what?   Listen to us everywhere: linktr.ee/blacksterring   Follow us on @blacksterring   #InsecureHBO

Season five is here and almost out of the door! But before the end, we look back at our day ones, their arcs, lows and pivots... and reflect. It's a long goodbye in three parts. Starting us out is the man with(out) a plan Lawrence Walker (did you know he was related to the whiskey? Hmm...)   Listen to us everywhere: linktr.ee/blacksterring   Follow us on @blacksterring   #InsecureHBO

A lot happens on Jiva. We sit down with the Netflix Mzansi original and wonder out loud whether we should be dancing rather? Either way, we break it down. Listen to us!   Listen to us everywhere: linktr.ee/blacksterring   Follow us on @blacksterring   #JivaNetflix

Blood gets messier than water on season 2 of homegrown Netflix whodunnit, Blood & Water. All our homegirls put on their Sunday Best and gave us some answers and a whole lot more. Please note: there are spoilers everywhere so proceed with bravery!   Listen to us everywhere: linktr.ee/blacksterring follow us on @blacksterring #BloodandWater

New season, who det!?  Like sands through the hour glass, so are our rambles on this award-winner!    PS. The Black Sterring awards are cooking in kitchen...

New season, who det!? Childhood is where it begins and ends. We explore family vs selfhood in this award-winning series many have rightly called emotional porn. So, for the love of feels (and sex?), let's rock!

We are dusting down our precious first season with none other than Pose, which also wrapped up their third and final season (SCREAMING). Can the community please stand up?

There is a method to Shonda Rhymes' madness. We zoom in on the self-proclaimed titan's award-winning stress-inducing dramaverse. S/o to Phetha, who is a huge nerd for Shondaland! Let's rock!

It's the turn of the sitcom. This time around we're looking back at the OG on which many formats and their Friends (gerrit?) were built. Join us we pay homage to the beautiful black women of Living Single.

We go fire pon di mic on episode 7 with Little Fires Everywhere starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon. It's a deep dive into what motherhood and childhood look like across the intersections of race, class, neurosis and loss.

There's nothing quite like a teen drama because, honestly, that's where all the drama began. On episode 6 we go back to high school with Netflix original, Blood & Water starring black women in lead roles. We had some thoughts (and confetti!).

Showrunners are up! On episode 5 we take stock of Kenya Barris' universe of black identity, politics and culture in Black-ish, Grown-ish, Mixed-ish and Black AF.

Take a shot of something strong and zero in on I May Destroy You with us on episode 4. We're unpacking consent via the The HBO-BBC show by the outstanding Michaela Coel.

The plug may've been pulled on Dezemba but SA's Netflix Original, How To Ruin Christmas, kept the current up. On episode 3, we look at homegrown nostalgia and all the black-women tropes we're used to in this feel-good mini-series that feels like home.

On this second episode of our Insecure deep dive, we look at endings. We unpack the friendships between black women through the trials that Molly and Issa face as well as romantic cross-roads via Lawrence and Issa. Issa lot.

Welcome to The Black Sterring! It's our first episode and we're coming in hot and little tongue-tied;) We're talking being seen as human onscreen while being a black women. How does that go bazalwane?