Miss Me? - Introducing... Miss Me?

Episode Date: March 8, 2024

Join friends since birth Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver twice a week for their transatlantic catch-ups, discussing everything from the highs and lows of their lives to the biggest cultural moments of t...he week.Every Monday, Lily and Miquita will throw the show open and invite questions on a theme; celebrity weddings, indie sleaze, orgasms, lies… Then on Thursdays, they’ll pick apart the world around them with unfiltered conversation on everything from intimacy to interiors, from exercise to elections.This episode contains strong language and adult themes.Credits:Producer: Matt Thomas Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith Production Coordinator: Hannah Bennett Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford Assistant Commissioner for BBC: Lorraine Okuefuna Commissioning Editor for BBC: Dylan HaskinsMiss Me? is a Persephonica production for BBC Sounds

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the BBC. This podcast is supported by advertising outside the UK. per month on Rogers Internet. Visit rogers.com for details. We got you. Rogers. BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts. Hi. I'll start. Hello. I'll start.
Starting point is 00:00:36 No, I'll start. No. Go on then. I'll start. Go on then. Why? Because you've got experience being a presenter.
Starting point is 00:00:41 You think that you lend yourself more naturally to this kind of format than I do. Yeah. Obviously. Hello, I'm Mikiita Oliver. No way, that feels too... No, no, no, no, no. Oh my God, no.
Starting point is 00:01:02 I'm Mikiita Oliver. And I'm Lily Allen. So this is Miss Me, the brand new podcast for a self-presenting. Still sounding presentary. Still sounding presentary. Okay, sorry, sorry. This is Miss Me. We're going to be talking to each other, two best friends,
Starting point is 00:01:16 a transatlantic conversation through the technology that allows us to do so. Because you live in New York and I live in London. I don't want to be like, I'm a single girl in East London and you're a married mother in Brooklyn. But that is kind of what the truth is. Basically what we're doing here. Yeah. It's nice. I like that our lives look different. But yet we still have that bond. Sexless in the cities. Sexless in the cities. No. No.
Starting point is 00:01:46 But yes. But yes. But yeah. But yeah, that might come up. That might come up. Every Thursday morning, you will be getting the meaty drop. The meaty drop. Which is the heart of the show, really.
Starting point is 00:02:05 It's where we're really going to get to the crux of the matter. Matter at hand. The meaty middle. Meat off the bones. Really get our teeth dug in. I'd like the truth to be a big part of our podcast. Oh yes. And it will be. Absolutely central. Two people that have
Starting point is 00:02:22 worked in these industries of broadcasting and the music industry and the acting industry. I mean, I'm mainly going to use it as a place to vent about my children. No, I'm joking. No, true story. We're also going to try and do something each week with some cultural significance and report back to you. So whether it is like reading a book or going to see a play or seeing a film or going to a concert or something like that. And then we will talk about it. Okay, Nanny.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Someone laughed at me the other day for using the word program. I said I'd watched a really interesting program last night. They went program. That is so sweet. We will. We'll be watching a lot of interesting programmes and reporting back. Did you watch that programme last night? And then on Monday,
Starting point is 00:03:15 it'll be Lisan, bitch. Which is where we all come together as a family and we take your questions with a different theme every week. One week, the theme could be pubs and you could ask us, what's the biggest fight me and Lily have ever had in a pub? Oh, I know that one.
Starting point is 00:03:30 I think I do too. Yeah, the theme of the questions will be set by us, and you will send those questions in by email at www. No, not www. You don't have to say www. BBC. It's a programme, and you can get it on the interweb. No, not www.bbc.co.uk. It's a programme and you can go on the interweb and you send us a message.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Miss me at bbc.co.uk or on WhatsApp. You can find the number in the show notes. Go to the show notes. So that's two episodes a week. Every week. I think that's more than anyone else has got. What do you mean more than anyone else has got. Woo! What do you mean more than anyone else has got?
Starting point is 00:04:08 On BBC Sounds. On BBC Sounds. On BBC Sounds. You know what? You can just say that for the whole podcast because that's where you're having the most fun. On BBC Sounds. On BBC Sounds.
Starting point is 00:04:21 First episode coming through thick and fast. Can't wait. I'm excited. March 14th, is it? March 14th. And it's going to be a big day. Get ready to miss me. I quite like that.
Starting point is 00:04:33 Get ready to miss me. Yeah? Kind of doesn't really make sense. No, not really. To listen, search Miss Me on BBC Sounds. We'll see you on Thursday. I'm so happy you're all coming. Bye.
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