Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

Bonsu and JujuA colourful and refreshing start to the day with breaking news stories, interviews, debate, fun, music. 

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Bonsu and Juju

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Henry
Best known as the man axed by BBC London for being “too intellectual”, Oxford graduate Henry has been a journalist since 1990, working as a staff researcher and producer on BBC radio and TV programmes like Today, World at One, Public Eye, and Black Britain. He became a freelance journalist and broadcaster in 1997, anchoring several programmes on BBC London 94.9FM, including Breakfast, Lunchtime, and Drivetime, interviewing leading politicians, businesspeople and a range of London personalities. Henry was also a popular panellist on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, and has appeared as a news commentator on Radio 5 Live and Sky News for several years.

Not so well known for his print journalism, he has nonetheless has written for the Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, The Voice, New Nation, Pride Magazine, and the London Evening Standard. He is also UK correspondent for Black Entertainment Television, and presents regular discussion programmes on Press TV and Vox Africa.

Juju
An Actress for over 15 years Juanne Fuller (aka Juju) has appeared in some of the UK's most popular TV programmes, including Kavanagh QC, Brookside, Eastenders, and The Bill. Now an aspiring writer, she has already been published in the Daily Telegraph, the London Paper, New Nation and the First Post. Juju is currently working on her first script for an original TV drama.

Juju brings an element of danger to the studio, as her pampered ex BBC colleagues Calum and Bonsu never know what to expect especially when class warfare, Gaza, and Goody are on the agenda. Lately she's has formed an unlikely alliance with that other Breakfast firebrand Toby Kell-Ogg on the subject of Jade's treatment by the sneering middle classes. There may be trouble ahead...


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Morning all!
Have been listening from my bed. What is it with voting and closing schools and libraries for the day? Still at least the Reprobates get a day with their godfather so that I can work. Loved the show. Mars xxx ...
Mars Lord - Thursday, May 03, 2012
Mr Hodgson
Agree with your interviewer. The English media are typically suspicious of any person who is intelligent, experienced (especially overseas) and multi-lingual. The masses are ignorant of Mr Hodgson's experience. ...
r - Monday, April 30, 2012
The In&Out Tunes
Morning princess hope all is well with you and yours. Can you please play the best baby making big people tune of all time. Billy Preston & Syreeta Wright - With You I'm Born Again. Let me see if you can roll wid dat young Lady.............x bless o ...
Tony Plumber - Friday, April 27, 2012
enlightening
Listening to Colourful for the first time this week. Good to hear your dulcet tones Bonsu, it has brightened up my morning. ...
Dawn Payne - Wednesday, April 25, 2012
DWAIN CHAMBERS
Morning Juju Hadn't even heard of Colourful when Dwain gave is interview, so didn't hear any opinions. Time on... what is YOUR view now. Come on, share please. I had very very strong views against personally. He will always leave a sour ...
Jen - Friday, April 20, 2012

Programme Notes


Surveys mean prizes...

Bonsu and JujuGreetings, Colourful community. Yes, it needed something powerful to tempt me back into the blogosphere, and I think this is it. We're fast approaching our sixth birthday and we're thinking of ways to celebrate this landmark, which falls on May 30th. An ob ...
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4/24/2012: Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

The Power of Prayer

Bonsu and JujuIt's one our busiest postbags of the year so far - dozens of you got in touch to offer your opinion on whether it was prayer power or modern technology that saved the life of Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba. Most of you thought it was a combination of ...
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3/22/2012: Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

Happiness

Bonsu and JujuOn the surface it looks really positive. Despite the economic pain, the fact that banks aren't lending, and that unemployment is soaring, we're officially a "happy nation". That's what around 80,000 of us have told the Office For National Statistics. On to ...
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2/29/2012: Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

Police and Thieves...

Bonsu and JujuIt was one summer's day in the mid-80s (can't remember which year exactly) when I heard that D had joined the police force. The news spread like wildfire among "the boys" in my part of North Manchester. This guy was the biggest, the strongest, the most han ...
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2/17/2012: Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

Thinking about Whitney

Bonsu and JujuIt's 0730, just getting the show on the road, and am reading some of your tributes to fallen Whitney on our Facebook page, and contrasting their tenderness with the brutal tear-up on our front pages. The tabloid frenzy has now moved from speculating whethe ...
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2/14/2012: Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

Do all political careers really end in failure?

Bonsu and Juju Yes, it may not be fashionable to quote him for obvious reasons, but for all his signs Enoch Powell was a pretty bright man (which made his failings all the more damning!). For it was he who once said: "All political careers end in failure". For evidence ...
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2/3/2012: Breakfast with Bonsu and Juju

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Contributor


Christabel Nsiah-Buadi

Christabel
US correspondent for Colourful Breakfast, Christabel Nsiah-Buadi is also the host of the show, 'Home, from Home' (www.hfhshow.com), which profiles stories from the Global Black Experience. The show is produced by her production company, My Lens Media (www.mylensmedia.com) and is currently broadcast on the Los Angeles-based station KPFK, and can be heard around the world, via www.hfhshow.com.

Christabel has worked both behind and in front of the mic. She has produced popular shows for some of the world's most famous broadcasters. As the Senior Supervising Producer for News and Notes on National Public Radio, America's equivalent of the BBC, she was responsible for setting that show's editorial direction. Under her tenure, the show became a 'go to' destination for African-American focused news, entertainment and analysis. In addition to Supervising production on this show, Christabel lent her talents to other news and talk shows, including 'Weekend All Things Considered' and 'Radio Nation with Laura Flanders'.

On air, Christabel has hosted segments for the popular BBC Radio 5 Live show, Up All Night and reported for the BBC TV series, LifeSchool. As the afternoon news anchor for Air America Radio News, Christabel became so popular that one fan wrote a song in her honour! She has reported from the devastated Gulf Coast for the network, following Hurricane Katrina, for Chuck D's late night talk show, 'On The Real', and reported from Ghana, when that nation celebrated it's 50th year of independence, in 2007.Visit My Website

Lindsay Johns

Lindsay
Lindsay Johns is a writer, broadcaster and cultural commentator.

He has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard and New Humanist magazine on socio-political and racial topics. Having had various features on BBC Radio 3’s Nightwaves and been featured in several Channel 5 history docs, his recent polemic against bling culture was a Channel 4 “Three Minute Wonder” in August 2008.

After reading French and Italian at Oxford, and a period of postgraduate work in medieval Latin philosophy in London, he is now the resident cultural critic on Colourful Radio.

A devotee of Dante and Shakespeare as much as of Beenie Man and Big Daddy Kane, Lindsay seeks to unite the academy and the street. His expertise lies in the fields of classical, medieval and Renaissance history and literature.

In his spare time he works as a volunteer mentor with young people on a leadership scheme in Peckham, South London.

An erudite but funky “Craig David with brains” for 2009 and beyond, relishing his ability to oscillate effortlessly between the classical canon and the contemporary cutting edge, Lindsay tells it like it is in his own inimitable way.

Awards


2009 Best Weekday Show (as voted by listeners)



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Candy Staton
Hi Brad, Remember me? I'm the lady you were talking to outside of the Candy Staton show on Friday night. Just wanna say your right, the show was electric and Candy looked fabulous at 72 years of age. Keep playing the music your making this grey, sun, ...
sharonna - Monday, May 07, 2012
Soul2Soul
Firstly let me say maximum respect to the whol S2S posse who've been a massive influence on me musically. I bought the t-shirts(& other clothes) from the shop in Camden & spent a small fortune on records from there, bought all the S2S records U.K. & ...
Lee Croft - Monday, May 07, 2012
jazzie q
Hi elayne great to hear you in the studio with one of the most genuine people in the music industry....young Mr Jazzie Q welcome and continue doing the great work you do both on the radio and in the clubs you are truly an inspiration. Dee ...
denise - Monday, May 07, 2012
hannah williams
cant wait to hear hannah williams and the tastemakers !!!! saw them supporting the great charles bradley . They were the icing on the cake !!!! thanks for a good choice !! ...
big p - Monday, May 07, 2012
Great show Dom
a show with a difference. loving it. Blessed Peace L ...
Lloyd - Monday, May 07, 2012