Previous work | Nkem Ifejika

I made a documentary for Radio 4's Artworks strand where I tried to reconcile my love for hip hop music with whether I can share it with my teenage son. The music is incredible, but some of it is... spicy to say the least.

I speak to among others, Romesh Ranganathan and my childhood friend Babou Ceesay, to try and figure out what to do. Listen here!

I was a newsreader and presenter at Times Radio from 2022 to 2025. I wrote, edited and read my own national bulletins, made my own editorial decisions, and presented the Times Radio podcast The World in 10. Nothing beats the thrill of live news: I was on air a few hours after the death of Queen Elizabeth II was announced.

I made a documentary about "Digital Grief" for the Heart & Soul strand on the BBC World Service. It was a story close to my heart, as my mum died in June 2021.

Artificial intelligence, social media, and modern technology, will - in addition to everything else - revolutionise the way we grieve. You can listen to it here.

I helped launch a Friday evening radio show aimed at the African and Caribbean communities in the southeast of England, airing on BBC local radio in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Solent, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire.

It had been a while since I'd produced, but the presenter Kamilah McInnis, is a joy to work with, and the team is a supportive one. Have a listen!

I joined Newsday at its launch in 2012 as business presenter, and from 2014 to 2018 I was its main presenter, co-anchoring the World Service's live, double-headed breakfast programme. We built the show around the audience, weaving listeners' tweets, texts and messages into the broadcast as it happened. Highlights included the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 and the EU referendum in 2016. In 2018 I also presented on BBC World News television. In December 2014 I co-presented a special edition of Today on BBC Radio 4, guest-edited by Sir Lenny Henry, alongside Mishal Husain