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The Marvyn Harrison Podcast: Culture, Identity & Fatherhood
by Marvyn Harrison
Culture, identity, masculinity, relationships and fatherhood, in honest long-form conversations hosted by Marvyn Harrison, founder of Dope Black Dads and TV commentator (BBC, LBC, Channel 5). Formerly the Dope Black Dads Podcast. Guests include Sadiq Khan, Michelle Gayle, Marlon & Shawn Wayans, DJ Semtex, Christine Lahti, Johnny Nelson, Tyler West, Kate Ferdinand, Poppy Jay, Dane Baptiste and Bridget Phillipson. Each episode opens with photos and early memories, works through the turning points that shaped the guest, and closes with game segments that show their unexpected side. Topics: music, sport, film and TV; love and dating; men's mental health and the manosphere; ADHD and neurodivergence; race and identity in Britain; parenting, co-parenting and the father wound; and the UK politics that hits families. Watch full episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd2CF9uBPHy91ASAMWqDSOQ Partnerships and sponsorship: [email protected]</
Episodes
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Mak 10: The DJ Who Built Grime Then Nearly Lost Everything
He built the sound of a genre from pirate radio. Then addiction almost took all of it. Mak 10 — the DJ behind Nasty Crew — on the rise, the fall, and coming up to three years clean. He talks about why "I had to be a bit delusional" to make it, the ADHD he's still waiting 18 months to have...
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The Guilt of Black progression w/ Amy Jephta, Playwright & Romantha Botha
Marvyn Harrison and Samantha Porter sit down with South African playwright and screenwriter Amy Jephta to unpack her acclaimed play "A Good House." The conversation covers gentrification, class mobility, colonial language, the psychological cost of being "the first" in predominantly white spaces,...
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Oscar Nominee Christine Lahti on Surviving Hollywood's Misogyny
Christine Lahti the Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe and Emmy winner sits down to unpack the autobiographical solo play that's been packing out London's Marylebone Theatre this summer: The Smile of Her. Known for Chicago Hope, Swing Shift, Running on Empty, Law & Order: SVU, and CBS's Evil and...
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DO YOU KNOW BALL? ⚽ Margz (Filthy Fellas) Takes the Football Quiz Hot Seat
Margz (No Behaviour Podcast, Filthy Fellas) sits in the hot seat for a rapid-fire football quiz — Premier League trivia on Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland, West Brom, Derby County, Portsmouth, Wigan and Blackburn, played under a 10-second clock across two escalating rounds. The episode closes with a...
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Anti-Intellectualism, Trump and Andrew Tate with Romantha Botha and Kaira Ahmed
Andrew Tate is trending again, but the bigger story isn't him, it's what made him possible. In this episode we break down anti-intellectualism: why comprehension is collapsing, why people trust vibes over evidence, and who actually benefits from keeping populations uncritical. We go back to...
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Are Young People Mollycoddled?
Every generation gets called soft by the one before it. But is this time different? We dig into the case that young people have lost resilience — less unsupervised play, more helicopter parenting, safe-space culture — against the case that the real story is economic: unaffordable housing…
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Should Benefit Claimants Be Forced to Pick Up Litter?
A UK campaign group wants Universal Credit claimants to do four hours of litter picking a month or risk losing their benefit. Supporters call it fair contribution. Critics call it workfare — a policy with a documented history of failure, unpaid labour, and exemption gaps for disabled claimants.…
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So you fell in love with someone who is Neurodivergent?
Your partner isn't ignoring you, isn't cold, isn't careless — they might just be wired differently. This episode breaks down 7 neurodivergent traits (ASD/Asperger's, ADHD, ADD, OCD, NVLD, sensory processing differences, alexithymia) with plain-language explanations, phonetic pronunciations, and...
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Michelle Gayle: Why I Quit EastEnders At The Peak Of My Career
Michelle Gayle actress, singer, and one of the most recognisable black British faces of the 90s, joins Marvyn for a conversation spanning her Harlesden childhood, her friendship with a young Naomi Campbell, the Jodeci vs Boyz II Men debate that defined 90s R&B fandom, and the real story behind…
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"I Was Sat On The Kitchen Floor With A Bottle Of Wine And Drugs Coming." — James Sutton
He was in your living room every night. He played the first gay character most of us ever saw kiss another man before watershed on Channel 4. Men still message him today saying his character saved their life. Behind the scenes, he was drinking alone on his kitchen floor on a Tuesday afternoon,...
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Raneem's Law: How One Family's Loss Is Changing 999 Forever
In August 2018, Raneem Uday and her mother Khaula Saleem were murdered in the West Midlands despite multiple 999 calls made that night. The system failed them — not through a single act of negligence, but through structural gaps in how those calls were handled and risk was assessed. What followed...
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Keir Starmer Has Resigned. What Does It Mean For Us?
This morning, Keir Starmer walked out of Downing Street and resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In this solo episode, Marvyn Harrison cuts through the noise and asks the questions the rolling news cycle won't slow down long enough to answer. How does a landslide majority of 172…
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Sickle Cell, the NHS, and the Fight to Be Believed — with Prof. Arlene Wellman MBE
It's World Sickle Cell Day, and the NHS Modernisation Bill, which proposes a single patient record bringing together a patient's full medical history in one place, has just reached committee stage in Parliament. In this episode, we speak with Professor Arlene Wellman MBE: a senior nurse leader…
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I Was In The Room When The UK Banned Social Media For Under-16s
Two days' notice. One email. "Are you available on the 15th at 7:30am to talk to Liz Kendall about some work she's doing." That's how this started. What followed was a morning inside Downing Street watching Keir Starmer announce a ban on social media for every child under 16 in the country —…
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The Most Chaotic Food Game Show ever!
Marvyn Harrison is joined by Paige Lewin and Brandeis for the most chaotic, most fun, most opinionated food game show in podcast history. No earnest deep dives today, just diaspora food debates, Caribbean heritage on the line, and Marvyn as the sole judge, jury and point-giver. They go in on: the...
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Nearly 1million people locked out of the economy - Here is what the government is doing about it
The crisis: 948,000 young people aged 16–24 in the UK — 1 in 8 — are not in education, employment, or training. In the US, it's worse. Youth labour force participation has been collapsing since 2000. That's 25 years of failure. The experiment: The UK government is running a £45 million test…
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Manosphere Messiahs: Inside the Global Spread of Misogyny Online with BBC's Jacqui Wakefield
BBC investigative reporter Jacqui Wakefield spent a year inside the global manosphere — travelling to Kenya and Mexico to track how Western influencer culture is radicalising young men at scale. She shares what she found in the data when young men handed over their full social media histories…
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Gareth Southgate: The Crisis Facing Young Men No One Is Talking About
Gareth Southgate joins Marvyn Harrison for a rare and honest conversation about the crisis facing young men and boys in Britain today — and what we actually do about it. In this episode, Gareth discusses his new BBC One documentary Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men (airing 8th…
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Marvyn x Mayor talk Manosphere: Sadiq Khan on Big Tech and Radicalisation
In this follow-up conversation from South by Southwest, Marvin Harrison sits down with the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to address the influence of the "manosphere" on young men and boys. Mayor Khan discusses the urgent need to hold big tech companies accountable for algorithms that prioritize...
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Sadiq Khan and the Manosphere and What Men Must Do Now
This week, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan delivered a landmark speech at SXSW London, warning that manosphere influence online risks creating a lost generation of young men. In this solo episode, Marvyn breaks down what the Mayor actually announced, what the research tells us, and why the real...
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5 Hot Takes: Başak Erten - Dopamine is cheap!
Başak Erten is a creative strategist, radio and brand consultant, and founder of The Art of Audacity — a cultural platform for women in creative industries, as featured in Forbes. She's spent over eight years producing content across the BBC, Sony Music Entertainment, and branded work for Vanity...
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Marvyn Harrison on the No Strings Podcast with Kojo Anim
Marvyn Harrison and Kojo go back. Two decades of parallel paths, community builders, event makers, fathers, who were never quite in the same room long enough to have the real conversation. Until now. In this episode, they cover everything. The g:hop era. The Sunday Show years, Ed Sheeran…
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“I Couldn’t Leave My Bedroom” — Tyler West, Dr Amos & Marvyn Harrison on Anxiety, PTSD & Men’s Mental Health
Tyler West opens up about PTSD, witnessing violence at 14 & going back to therapy. Dr Amos explains anxiety conditions. NHS Talking Therapies: https://www.nhs.uk/talk In this episode of The Marvyn Harrison Podcast, Marvyn sits down with Dr Amos Ogunkoya and Tyler West for a raw, honest…
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Why Marvyn Harrison Refuses to Be the Black Messiah And Why That's the Most Radical Thing He Could Say
Show details: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDayAfterTNB You probably know Marvyn Harrison from Dope Black Dads. Or from Jeremy Vine. Or from Good Morning Britain. But do you know where he started? In this episode, Marvyn takes the room on the full journey — from g:hop, the lifestyle movement that...
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Arsenal Are Champions. I Was There. And I Can't Stop Crying
Arsenal Football Club are Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years. A generation of fans who weren't born the last time this happened are now old enough to drink, vote, and cry in the streets of North London. And that's exactly what tens of thousands of them did on the night of May...
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Marvyn Harrison Meets Marlon & Shawn Wayans | ‘SCARY MOVIE IS ONLY IN CINEMAS JUNE 5’
Scary Movie didn't just parody horror it gave a generation permission to laugh at the things that scared them. Then the Wayans left. And we all felt the difference. Now they're back. Marlon. Shawn. The original crew. And in this conversation, Marlon reveals the moment that made it happen: a…
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Julie Adenuga vs Marvyn Harrison: Top 5 TV Mums & Dads — No Filter
Julie Adenuga and a South African guest join Marvyn for the most chaotic, unresolved, and genuinely entertaining TV parents debate you'll watch this year. Aunt Viv. Claire Huxtable. Peggy Mitchell. Moira Rose. Jack Pearson. Uncle Phil. Logan Roy. Walter White as a dad candidate. Nobody agreed....
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DJ Semtex | The Man Who Broke Kanye & Drake In The UK Before Anyone Cared
He broke Kanye West in the UK before College Dropout dropped. He filmed Drake's first ever UK interview in Hyde Park — paid the cameraman £50 out of his own pocket because the station didn't care. He flew to New York to sign Fatman Scoop and got aired for a week until a 4am diner meeting sealed…
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Dane Baptiste: "I Had Chappelle At My Club And They Wouldn't Let Me Meet Him"
View the images in order, here! https://canva.link/4eacwrp87m3qfxh I've known Dane Baptiste for 20 years. I watched him find five minutes at the beginning of my Sunday Show when nobody knew his name. I watched the crowds not get it. I watched him come back anyway. This conversation is the full...
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Lalalaletmeexplain: Dating Apps Lost 600,000 Users. The Woman Who Predicted It Explains What's Coming Next.
She trained as a social worker. Spent 15 years watching what happens when relationships destroy people. Built a community of 250,000 women on Instagram. Wrote a Sunday Times bestseller. And then sat across from me and said: "I don't know if this is working. Nothing's changing." This is Layla,...
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Marvyn Harrison Meets Poppy Jay: Diagnosed With ADHD 24 Hours Before This Interview
Poppy Jay arrives with no prep. What follows is one of the rawest conversations on this channel. Director, writer, comedian, and co-host of the cult podcast Brown Girls Do It Too, Poppy walks me through ten photos from her life, and each one opens a door she wasn't planning to open. We talk about...
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Sadiq Khan Gives £30 Million. Every Borough. Youth Clubs Are Back. - A message to Justin Pickett
Sadiq Khan just announced £30 million to put a youth club in every single London borough. They're called Youth Lates — open evenings, open weekends, with food, mentoring, music, mental health support, all under one roof. The biggest investment in youth clubs by any Mayor. Ever. Marvyn grew up in...
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I Asked the Government's AI Minister 5 Questions Every Parent Wants Answered | Kanishka Narayan MP
The UK government opened the biggest consultation on children's digital safety ever attempted. Social media age bans. Overnight app curfews. Restrictions on infinite scroll. Controls on AI chatbots. They want to hear from parents directly. So when the Department for Science, Innovation and...
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He Sent N-Dubz a Myspace Message and Became Their Agent at 19 | Billy Wood — HAUS23
This man sent a Myspace message to N-Dubz after seeing them on Channel U. Within a month he was their agent. No business card. No corner office. Just conviction and speed. Billy Wood is one of those names in UK music that if you know, you know. 20 years. Three of the biggest talent agencies in…
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The Health Secretary Exposed The NHS's Biggest Secrets On My Podcast
The Health Secretary sat down with me. And he didn’t hold back. Wes Streeting the man responsible for the entire NHS talks about surviving cancer at 38, the crisis hiding inside Britain’s maternity wards, why Black women are still dying at catastrophic rates in childbirth, what’s really happening...
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Childcare Costs Just Got HALVED — Here’s What Nobody’s Telling You
Childcare in this country just changed. Permanently. New government data shows that the cost of a full-time nursery place for a child under two has DROPPED by 52% in just two years — from £305/week to £149/week. Families are saving an average of £8,000 a year per child. Half a million households...
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I Was In The Room When It Happened | BAFTAs, Racism & What Nobody Said
In this episode of The Marvyn Harrison Podcast, three guests — Richie Brave, Manga St Hilaire, Nii Odarte and Rehema Muthamia sit down for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we've had. The BAFTA N-word incident is dissected by someone who was actually in the auditorium when it happened....
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Is The Internet Killing Love?
In this episode of The Marvyn Harrison Podcast, we unpack one uncomfortable question: is the internet killing love? From religion and existential doubt to seasonal depression, trauma bonding, toxic relationship dynamics, and the rise of online healing culture, this conversation goes deep into how...
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Love Isn’t Mechanical: Stop Dating Like a Checklist
Most people say they want love, then date like they’re configuring a device: height, income, politics, trauma level, texting cadence, therapy status, “emotional intelligence,” travel appetite—tick, tick, tick. It feels safe. It feels efficient. It feels like control. But love isn’t mechanical....
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I’m Not “Exposing” Anyone — Here’s The Line I Won’t Cross
This episode sets the rules of the room. This podcast is committed to protecting the dignity, safety, and wellbeing of anyone whose stories, experiences, or submissions may be referenced. We don’t publish allegations as fact without appropriate verification, context, or public record. We…
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GAME Went Bust… So I Rebuilt It Into Britain’s Home of Gaming Culture
An old workplace game brand went bust—not because people stopped gaming, but because retail changed: downloads replaced discs and the UK high street kept shrinking. The fix isn’t “sell more games.” The fix is rebuilding the purpose. In this episode I lay out the full turnaround blueprint: Accept...
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The Wildest Week in My Camera Roll (No Filter)
This is the no-padding weekly panel episode: 12 stories, 4 perspectives, rapid-fire pitches, and then we go in. Each contributor gets 30 seconds to make the case, then the table tests it—facts, incentives, hypocrisy, and what it means for real people. Today’s agenda (12): [Topic] — the 30-sec…
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We Had to Say This Out Loud
This episode is different, and it had to be. As this podcast grows, so does the responsibility that comes with telling stories about real lives, real harm, and real people. In this episode, I explain why we’ve added a safeguarding and responsibility notice, what it means, and what this podcast…
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Why I Hate Sainsbury’s Local
This episode is a forensic breakdown of Sainsbury’s Local as a system, not a shop. What’s sold as convenience is friction. What’s sold as efficiency is unpaid labour. What’s sold as design is psychological manipulation that fails the moment you’re tired, parenting, or in a hurry. From hostile...
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Rickie Haywood-Williams On Sleep, Stress And Lifestyle Changes
Rickie Haywood-Williams sits down with Dope Black Dads to talk honestly about health, fatherhood, lifestyle changes and the NHS Healthy Choices Quiz. In this episode, Rickie breaks down what life really looks like behind the microphone and the Instagram posts. Late nights, early mornings, family...
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Black Adoption Stories: Building a Welcome Home Through Food & Family
What does a welcome home really feel like? with @MarvynHarrison https://www.youcanadopt.co.uk/blackadopters In this special episode, we sit around the dinner table to talk honestly about adoption, family, culture, and belonging. Over food that reminds us of home, we explore what it means to…
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My Day with Kier Starmer, ERA 2025 & the Biggest Shift in Workers’ Rights in a Generation
This episode takes you inside 10 Downing Street for a rare, direct conversation on power, policy, and dignity at work. Marvyn Harrison meets Keir Starmer to unpack the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) — described as the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation. We break down what…
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I’m Intervening: The Parenting Line We Can’t Cross
This is a safeguarding episode, not a comfort episode. Children are not collateral damage for adult frustration. They are not background noise. They are not “tiny adults” who should just get over it. And they are not content. This episode pulls apart the most dangerous lie we repeat: “Kids are...
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Why Your New Year Goals Keep Failing
Most New Year goals fail for the same reason: they’re fantasies, not systems. In this episode, Marvyn Harrison breaks down why “New Year, New Me” thinking collapses every time — and what actually creates change. This is not about motivation, manifestation, or vague intentions. It’s about identity...
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Anthony Joshua Survives Nigeria Car Crash: RIP Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele
Anthony Joshua has survived a serious car crash in Nigeria that killed two close friends and long-standing members of his team. Physio Sina Ghami and personal trainer Latif “Latz” Ayodele were pronounced dead at the scene after a collision on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway. In this emergency news...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Culture, identity, masculinity, relationships and fatherhood, in honest long-form conversations hosted by Marvyn Harrison, founder of Dope Black Dads and TV commentator (BBC, LBC, Channel 5). Formerly the Dope Black Dads Podcast.
Guests include Sadiq Khan, Michelle Gayle, Marlon & Shawn Wayans, DJ Semtex, Christine Lahti, Johnny Nelson, Tyler West, Kate Ferdinand, Poppy Jay, Dane Baptiste and Bridget Phillipson.
Each episode opens with photos and early memories, works through the turning points that shaped the guest, and closes with game segments that show their unexpected side. Topics: music, sport, film and TV; love and dating; men's mental health and the manosphere; ADHD and neurodivergence; race and identity in Britain; parenting, co-parenting and the father wound; and the UK politics that hits families.
Watch full episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd2CF9uBPHy91ASAMWqDSOQ
Partnerships and sponsorship: [email protected]</
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