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Young people from one London Borough, getting to the bottom of issues they care about. A collaboration between VICE and Brent 2020, London Borough of Culture. Hosts: Santos Da Silva | Amelia Mya Alleyne | Suprina Thapa | Nuradean Arreythe. VENT Production Team: Senior Producer - Jess Lawson | Assist...
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77 Episoden#75 It's Over... For Now
For our final episode of VENT Weekly, Nuradean, Santos, Amelia and Suprina come together to look back over their favourite episodes of the series. Sta...
#74 'The Western media imagines it as deserts and bombs'
Today we’re joined by fellow Brentonian Maryam Almakhzoumi and Documentary Photographer Emily Garthwaite to talk about misconceptions of Iraq and Shia...
#73 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #11 The Old Normal?
Let’s be real. This year, everything since March has been soooooooo shit.
People suffered tragic losses, millions lost their jobs, and heroic k...
#72 'When I was 17 that was when I gave my life to Christ'
Nuradean is Muslim and Suprina is Buddhist and Hindu, but being young and religious isn't always the most straight forward thing. Today we've invited...
#71 VENT Daily: Teachers Can Do Better 2
It's the beginning of September, which means school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish we'd learnt at schoo...
#70 VENT Daily: Teachers Can Do Better 1
It's the beginning of September, which means school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish we'd learnt at schoo...
#69 VENT Daily: Authors of the Estate
It's the beginning of September, which means school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish we'd learnt at schoo...
#68 VENT Daily: Overlooked History 2
It's the beginning of September, which means for a lot of people, school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish...
#67 VENT Daily: Overlooked History 1
It's the beginning of September, which means for a lot of people, school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish...
#66 VENT Daily: Standing Up For Yourself at Work
It's the beginning of September, which means for a lot of people, school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish...
#65 VENT Daily: The Freelance Life
It's the beginning of September, which means for a lot of people, school is starting again. Everyday this week, we're making a show about what we wish...
#64 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #10 Has the media behaved responsibly?
Has the news media behaved responsibility when covering the COVID-19 pandemic, or is it guilty of playing on people’s fears just for more clicks? Bren...
#63 'Everyone has the right to be who they truly are'
This episode, we've had a request from another young person in Brent. 17 year old Rain is a genderqueer lesbian, but it took them a long time to fully...
#62 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #9 How Did We Get Here?
So, did this really all begin with a bat?
It’s pretty impressive how quickly we’ve all adapted to living in a global pandemic, but it’s time for...
#61 'These were young men doing really long sentences for something they didn't do'
Today we’re joined by Tracey Ford, Founder of JAGS Foundation, Fellow Brentonian Anjali Joshi, and Writer and Speaker Oumou Longley on to talk about o...
#60 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #8 Grade A Confusion
It’s GCSE results day... except this year - no-one sat the exams. After grade A, A-Level confusion with students finding themselves down-graded by an...
#59 'How are you going to tell my dad not to cry at his own son's funeral?'
Death is one of the only definite things in our lives, but it’s something that a lot of people find hard to talk about, and hard to process. Today we'...
#58 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #7 What's gone under the radar?
The News Media’s lens has been squarely focussed on the COVID19 pandemic for months, but what else has happened that's gone under the radar? Brent res...
#57 'You are a young activist, you're not an embassy'
A lot of what's happening in the world lately has left Nuradean and Suprina feeling really powerless. As individual young people, it can sometimes fee...
#56 ‘Who cares? We got another million pills over here’
This week, Santos and Amelia talk to VICE Global Drugs Editor Max Daly about how Covid-19 has impacted the global drug trade.
This episode was p...
#55 VENT Daily: Bi-Cultural Families Blueprint
For the last two days of our VENT Daily mini-series on family, we've been taken over The Blueprint Collective: a creative group of young people at the...
#54 VENT Daily: Family Business Blueprint
For the last two days of our VENT Daily mini-series on family, we've been taken over The Blueprint Collective: a creative group of young people at the...
#53 VENT Daily: Kamiah and Freddy
This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, all on the theme of family. Today, guest host and friend of the show Kamiah Chae joins us wi...
#52 VENT Daily: Suprina and Mr KC
This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, and they're all about family. Today, Suprina has invited her uncle Umesh, otherwise known as...
#51 VENT Daily: Nuradean and Yaqoub
This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, and they're all about family. Today, Amelia speaks to Nuradean and his cousin, Yaqoub, about...
#50 VENT Daily: Amelia and Amber
This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day. We're taking some time to talk about family and today, we're talking twins. Amelia has invit...
#49 VENT Daily: Santos and Vivi
This week, we’re putting out an episode every single day, all on the theme of family. To start us off, Santos and Nuradean speak to Vivi, Santos' mum,...
#48 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #6 Why was Brent hit so hard?
In the second part of our conversation about the human cost of the pandemic in the UK, events move closer to home. In this episode, 27 year old Harles...
#47 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #5 Why is the UK’s death rate so high?
The UK has one of the highest death tolls in Europe and, for 19 year old Brent resident Maryam, some of those numbers were people she knew. With the i...
#46 'I want to see a Nepalese uncle behind the camera'
Today we're thinking about who we see in the media and who we don't. We invited founder of South Asian Creatives (and one of the VENT Production Team!...
#45: Elle
This week, we're taking a break from VENT Weekly to let you know that Series 2 of our sibling podcast: VENT Documentaries, is out NOW! This series is...
#44: 'I saw a man put down his gun and come and play football'
We've had to give up a lot of things during lockdown in order to contain the spread of Covid-19. One of the things Nuradean's been missing the most is...
Coming Soon: VENT Documentaries Series Two
Series Two of our sibling podcast, VENT Documentaries, is coming soon. This time, we're talking about sex, love and relationships. Subscribe to VENT D...
#43: 'They know we can conquer the world, they’re afraid'
Nuradean studied Economics at uni, and it was super white. Now he's wondering what this means for the industry itself. We speak to Fast Stream Economi...
#42 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #4 School's Out
Though primary schools started re-opening at the start of June, most primary and secondary school students in the UK won't be back in the classroom un...
#41 'You know there's like a possum in someone's ceiling'
So many people our age and younger use TikTok all the time, and it's changing the way we discover and listen to music. We've invited VICE Associate Ed...
#40 WTF NHS
Today is National Windrush Day, so we're sharing an episode from our sibling podcast: VENT Documentaries. In WTF NHS, Foos sets out to find out what's...
#39 'Who decides?'
This episode of VENT Weekly, we have a guest with a question. 20 year old Abdul Riaz wants to know why he never hears about Kashmir on the news anymor...
#38 Bonus: Covid-19 Fact Checkers #3 What About the Economy?
Since lockdown began over two months ago all non-essential businesses have been shut, people are losing their jobs and our livelihoods are threatened....
#37 'Everything is Too Much Right Now' Part 2
Everything is too much right now, especially for black people. We need a minute just to process what’s going on. This is the second part of our conver...