We All Want To Be Kiera Knightly (feat. Brown Girls Do It Too)

We're still in Edinburgh on Stay Hydrated and on this episode we're joined by podcasters, broadcasters, boundary-breakers and all-round legends — it’s Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani from Brown Girls Do It Too!

Poppy and Rubina aren't just the "funniest women in Britain" (according to The Times) and the creators of the multi-award winning BBC Sounds podcast Brown Girls Do It Too... they've also created the hilarious and hard-hitting show "Mama Told Me Not To Come" which played in Edinburgh, and is at Soho Theatre Walthamstow from the 9th-13th September 2025!

On this episode of Stay Hydrated, Chris, Lizzie, Poppy and Rubina getting into everything from sex and shame to breaking taboos, the joys of saying the unsayable and why talking about pleasure can be radical. They chat about family expectations, cultural clashes, dating disasters and how comedy helps them process the chaos.

The girls also open up about the whirlwind success of Brown Girls Do It Too, the responsibility of representing British Asian women in the media and the importance of making people laugh and think at the same time.

Expect honesty, hilarity, and maybe a little oversharing... just the way we like it.

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