Series Two, Episode Four - Cherrelle Skeete and Shiloh Coke (Part 2) SHILOH: We avoid this title BAME at all costs. CHERRELLE: The thing is, I understand why the term BAME exists. It has to be an umbrella term that kind of links people together who aren’t white, I suppose. But at the same time it only exists within the world of western institutions, because when I go to India, when I go to Sri Lanka, when I go to China, I'm not ‘BAME’. I'm black. My blackness is global. BAME is not global. It limits me only to America and the UK. I was saying to Shi, when I'm sitting in the taxi and the taximan who’s Southeast Asian asks us for the money upfront - SHILOH: And then doesn’t give us our cash back. CHERRELLE: He in’t my brother! I’m not saying, ‘But we’re BAME!’ I'm not BAME. No no no no no - I'm black! I'm having a black experience, not a BAME experience. But at the same time, I also understand that we're talking about our ind...

Series Two, Episode Three - Cherrelle Skeete & Shiloh Coke (Part 1) ( Part 2 will be released next Monday) LAURA: So if you could both give us a little bit of background about how you got into acting and what your start in the industry was. We’ll start with Cherrelle. CHERRELLE: So I’m from Birmingham, so I started off at the dance company. I started off making dance routines and then apparently I was doing something called “physical theatre”, then I thought, oh, okay. I sing as well, and then someone told me I should go to drama school. Ultimately I was like, I need to leave this city. I need to go to the Big Smoke, to London and I went to a community theatre company and they gave me a list of all these drama schools that I’d heard of but I thought only posh white people went to them. So I was like, ah, okay. So I managed, back in those days, to gets a grant to be able to afford a train ticket and to pay for my audition fees and to get to London because it’s e...