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The Guardian's Token

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Starting in Australia and now in the UK, Token is a podcast about marginalised identities. But it's fun - we promise. We talk about race, gender, sexuality, culture, politics and whatever el...

Episodes

20 of 33 episodes

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast

Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking wel...

00:39:46Jul 1, 2021

Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series

The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible storie...

00:25:34Feb 8, 2021

Innermost: another episode of our new series

We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how t...

00:20:21Aug 3, 2020

Innermost: episode 1 of a new series

The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on...

00:16:34Jun 25, 2020

Why are there so few BAME leaders in Britain?

The Colour of Power project has shown that just 3% of Britain’s most powerful people are non-white. What can be done to change this?

00:30:03Sep 29, 2017

End of season 2 – Token podcast

Leah and Freddy bring you a quick update on Token. Unfortunaly it’s going to have to be put on pause because, among other things, there’s a...

00:04:20May 12, 2017

The 'why do you walk like that?' episode – Token podcast

This week Leah Green and Freddy McConnell are joined by Gideon Goldberg, their colleague and token disabled person. They discuss ‘when to as...

00:30:06Apr 12, 2017

The 'I Am Not Your Negro' episode - Token podcast

Leah Green and Freddy McConnell are joined by Raoul Peck, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary I am Not Your Negro. They talk about t...

00:25:34Mar 31, 2017

The 'can you be an atheist Jew?' episode – Token podcast

Freddy McConnell and Leah Green are joined by LA Times columnist and host of the Unorthodox podcast, Mark Oppenheimer

00:31:48Mar 14, 2017

The 'I got the job because I'm Asian' episode – Token podcast

Freddy McConnell and Leah Green are joined by the Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana. She talks about her experience of being a chi...

00:28:59Mar 3, 2017

The Valentine's Day sex advice episode – Token podcast

Leah and Freddy are joined by sexpert Alix Fox to answer listeners’ sex and relationships questions. Their discussion spans novice polyamory...

00:40:05Feb 14, 2017

The 'Why is black hair a thing?' episode – Token podcast

It’s Freddy McConnell’s turn to be ignorant this week as Leah Green and guest Grace Shutti lament the ups and downs of being born with Afro...

00:40:29Feb 3, 2017

The gender quiz episode – Token podcast

Tinder now lets you state your gender in your own words, and provides a list of options in addition to ‘female’ and ‘male’. We thought the o...

00:41:18Jan 18, 2017

The Christmas vulva episode: part 2 – Token podcast

Leah and Freddy talk about more things vulva related with Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi, who also produced and presented The Vagina D...

00:33:06Dec 27, 2016

The Christmas vagina episode: part 1 – Token podcast

Leah and Freddy are joined by Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi to talk about all things vulva related, for a festive, slightly-tipsy, en...

00:33:58Dec 22, 2016

The 'are racial preferences racist?' episode - Token podcast

Leah and Freddy are joined by film-festival organiser Jack Casey, to discuss the explicit racism sometimes found in the contemporary LGBTQ c...

00:27:36Dec 9, 2016

Transparent and trans parents – the Token podcast

Leah Green and Freddy McConnell are joined by TV journalist Rebecca Nicholson for a chat about Transparent, the Amazon Prime show that had i...

00:33:34Nov 15, 2016

The gay cake episode – Token podcast

Freddy McConnell and Leah Green are joined by columnist Owen Jones to discuss the case of the ‘gay cake’

00:26:35Nov 1, 2016

The ups and downs of strength – Token Podcast

Comedian Tom Ballard joins Leah Green and Freddy McConnell to talk about strength in all its forms: women’s strength and Hillary Clinton; ma...

00:33:26Sep 21, 2016

How far should an ally go? - Token podcast

This week we’re talking about allies: white allies, straight allies, male allies - all the allies

00:30:53Sep 14, 2016