Brown Baby Podcast

By: Nikesh Shukla
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  • 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, 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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  • Season 2 Episode 6: Meredith Broussard and Your Own Minecraft Server

    Season 2 Episode 6: Meredith Broussard and Your Own Minecraft Server
    Sep 14 2021

    This 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. She appeared in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias, all about the coded gaze in technology.


    This is a podcast about parenting. It asks the question how do we raise our kids to be joyful in bleak times that make us so sad and angry. Each week, I invite a parent on to chat to me about their parenting journeys, how they’re navigating these tricky times with their kids, how to have big important conversations and how to still have fun and enjoy the world. This is a hopeful podcast about parenting. It’s inspired by my memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race Family And Home, which has been out since February this year. I hope you have a copy.


    Buy Artificial Unintelligence here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/246/9780262537018

    Buy Brown Baby here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/246/9781529032918

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    50 mins
  • Season 2 Episode 5: Tahmima Anam And Scary Dads

    Season 2 Episode 5: Tahmima Anam And Scary Dads
    Sep 7 2021

    This 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 industry’s problem with women. It’s a great fun chat.


    This is a podcast about parenting. It asks the question how do we raise our kids to be joyful in bleak times that make us so sad and angry. Each week, I invite a parent on to chat to me about their parenting journeys, how they’re navigating these tricky times with their kids, how to have big important conversations and how to still have fun and enjoy the world. This is a hopeful podcast about parenting. It’s inspired by my memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race Family And Home, which has been out since February this year. I hope you have a copy.


    Buy The Startup Wife here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/246/9781838852481

    Buy Brown Baby here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/246/9781529032918


    Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/brown-baby.


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    56 mins
  • Season 2 Episode 4: Andi Oliver And Dancing In Your Kitchen

    Season 2 Episode 4: Andi Oliver And Dancing In Your Kitchen
    Aug 31 2021
    Welcome 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 being at the forefront throughout. Andi is a regular face on screen – Host of the BBC’s Great British Menu, Host of Sky Arts Live Book Club, Host of C4’s Beat the Chef, and Food Unwrapped and a contributing chef and host on Saturday Kitchen.I am doing London Podcast Festival on Saturday 4th Septembe at 10.30am. T My guest is Himesh Patel. We’ll be catching up on nearly a year of parenthood from him. Tickets: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/brown-baby-podcast/Buy Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race Family And Home: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/246/9781529032918

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    51 mins

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