The Black Sterring

Happy Tweny Tweny Thrive Sterrings! Firstly, they've put us in front of a camera and in the studio so please have a look at us over on Spotify Video and YouTube! We return with thoughts and things on the masterpiece that is Shaka llembe courtesy of Bomb Productions.  Cheers, Tjerries!  #BSRadio #ListenToUs #BlackSterring  

Welcome blacks! We're trying out something new and having a peak into the richly neighbourhood of South African production houses. Who are they? What have they done? Who have they worked with? Why do they do what they do, and most fascinatingly, how do they make the pots?  First up are the siblings over at Burnt Onion!  Listen. To. Us.    #BlackSterringRadio #BurntOnion #HowToRuinChristmas #TV 

"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'...

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.