If I Speak is a podcast from Moya Lothian-McLean and Ash Sarkar where the personal meets the political. Every week they tackle social dilemmas, cultural phenomena and the frustrations of modern life.
Ash wants to cultivate a relationship with nature, but Moya detects a deeper problem with burnout. Plus: a listener who’s lost sexual interest in her partner.
Tough love for a listener in a situationship. Plus: Ash and Moya sink their teeth into Wuthering Heights discourse.
It’s a dilemmas special! (Because our listeners have a lot of problems.)
Our audience of Special Ones ask us anything – from the personal to the political to the completely potty.
Moya asks Ash how to trust your gut when it comes to leaving or staying in a job, friendship or romance.
Ash and Moya offer their own strategies for worrying less about what other people think. Plus: an ex who’s found God and turned rightwing.
Ash has a big theory about what makes someone into a proper adult. Plus: can you make a casual hook-up turn serious?
Ash and Moya start the year with a tough conversation about the beauty regime that rules over us all.
Culture writer Lanre Bakare talks to Ash and Moya about the precarious state of culture in post-Covid Britain, live in Manchester.
Ash and Moya are joined by Rizzle Kicks star Jordan Stephens to talk about changing attitudes to gender and relationships.
Ash and Moya debate the pros and cons of feeling shame and advise a listener whose best friend has a mean streak.
Moya wonders if politeness is stopping us from seriously addressing women’s shrinking bodies and changing faces.
Ash and Moya talk about the urge to beautify and shopping as a numbing mechanism.
Moya and Ash talk to Dr Annabel Sowemimo about STI stigma, period trackers and how to afford another baby.
A mystery question leads Ash and Moya into conversation about whether their politics are changing as they age.
After listening to the new album by Lily Allen – the patron saint of oversharing – Moya and Ash debate the ethics of spilling your guts in public.
Moya and Ash tackle a quiz about the culture that shaped them, and offer advice to a fiance who’s losing interest in his partner.
Moya and Ash offer a thought for spooky season and solve a dilemma about a mentoring relationship.
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