Welcome to the all Fem power podcast: Femina del Fuego.
‘Femina’ being the Latin for the feminine spirit, and here we celebrate the fiery ones - aka - 'del fuego'
This is a space of celebration.
I bring together fantastic feel good minds and meanings, speak our power, and focus on your best fierce inner fem life.
Straight forward back to back tunes - I like to specialise most episodes through themes.
For one episode I took my Chat Shit Show to Balamii Radio
On The Corner Records once took over Soho Radio for a whole week. I was invited to partake in the takeover, with my show ‘Electric Dish’.
I took over DJ Ritu’s A World In London to interview artists at WOMAD festival in 2018. In this takeover I interview tons of musicians, from Orchestre Le Mangelepa (Kenya) to Goldie (UK) - Amadou and Mariam (Mali) , Herbaliser (UK) My Baby (Amsterdam) and Tal National (North Africa Fusion) + more!
I went along to the BBC to catch Minyeshu on her journey from Ethiopia, where I took over A World in London for DJ Ritu, and interviewed her.
Here I took over DJ Ritu’s A World In London to interview sample based techno dudes Addictive TV
I took over DJ Ritu’s A World In London and interview cuban big band Son Yambu.
‘Listen to the Label’ is my collaborative podcast series with Rhythm Passport, where we work through our favourite global music labels - with feature length in depth interviews with their CEO’s who introduced the label and it’s music.
‘On Air’ is my podcast collaboration with Rhythm Passport - whereby we interview artists each month, coupled with global music new releases!
In this very special feature length podcast, I interview The following on behalf of DJ Ritu’s ‘A World In London’.
Hashmat Sultana (India)
Orchestre Le Mangelepa (Kenya)
Goldie (UK)
Amadou and Mariam (Mali)
Herbaliser (UK)
LADAMA (Latin America Fusion)
My Baby (Amsterdam)
Tal National (North Africa Fusion)
Executive Production Assistant
DJ Ritu has been pioneering the for front of the global music scene for over 31 years!
A World In London celebrates its thirteenth year as the UK’s definitive global music show, based in the heart of London and presented by DJ Ritu. The show has surpassed 500 episodes!
Now AWIL is hosted on Resonance FM & SOAS Radio, and is available on-line at iTunes, Mixcloud, and DAB.
Over the past three years, assisting on two live shows per week, my role with Ritu has expanded to include more and more responsibilities as faith, trust and mutual respect has grown between us,
I assist Ritu in any number of things from emailing and booking artists through their PR or directly, completing our online schedules, ensuring artists are sent their information packages, and the stations have received the artist tech specs.
I ensure the guests understand the studio rules before the show, and ensure their comfort. I then provide any technical assistance needed to Ritu throughout the shows, and ensure we take high quality pictures as well as a ‘Facebook LIVE’ video.
Furthermore, on AWIL SOAS Radio, I present the new releases we have that week.
On the occasion Ritu has to miss a show, she entrusts the presenting and maintaining of the shows quality and standards to me, and co-producer Norman Druker.
Below are some examples of when I have hosted A World In London on behalf of DJ Ritu.
Here I hosted ‘Zackiel’ for DJ Ritu.
In this episode, I was the guest along side ‘Strut Records’ owner Quinton Scott, to talk about my award winning dissertation topic, “Appropriate Appropriation? - An exploration off ‘record diggers’ and their connection to independent record labels”.
Whilst Ritu was in India, she entrusted Norman and I to host AWIL, presenting our favourite tracks from 2020 so far.
Here I interviewed ‘Addictive TV’ on behalf of Ritu
I conducted interviews at WOMAD festival 2018 on behalf of DJ Ritu for A World In London
Here I interviewed ‘Minyeshu’ on behalf of DJ Ritu
Here’s a selection of commissioned productions all themed around philanthropy or raising political awareness
Chat Shit Show is self-explanatory: Sophie Darling invites a pal for each episode, with a focus topic on which to Chat Shit, illustrated with musical tracks.
Expect profanity, expect satire and expect an awful lot of chatting shit. Buckle in - it’s a right laugh!
…and here was our second episode for Balamii, unfortunately during which, we had decided to cancel my show. I was told that it was because they had taken too many new shows on, and needed to back up. However, I have a feeling they didn’t like the name still…(rude?).
At this point, Chat Shit Show was taken onto Balamii Radio station. What exciting news, the first Sunday of every month 9-10pm!
However, they didn’t like the name of the show, so in between deciding how to rebrand it and what it’s shiny new name would be, Balamii uploaded the show incorrectly, and painfully named: ‘The Chat Show’ - (what?).
I edited these live performances into podcasts.
I take over A World In London - and interview Son Yambu
I help to introduce Espen
Yara Lapidus and Amira Kheir interview one another in the Studio
I interview Trinidadian poet - Anthony Joseph
WOMAD Special for A World In London in which I interview: Hashmat Sultana, Orchestre Le Mangelepa, Goldie, Amadou and Mariam, Herbaliser, LADAMA, My Baby and Tal National
Here I interview Minyeshu for A World In London
Here I interviewed Addictive TV for A World In London
I helped to form the idea for this show and thus produced all the episodes.
For this series, I simply produced the following episodes.
