1Xtra - Season 6 / Year 2022
Season 6 / Year 2022
Episodes
1Xtra's Hot 4 2022
1Xtra's Hot 4 2022 - Featuring performances from AMARIA BB, Gabzy, Enny, Jords, Knucks, Miss Lafamilia, Pip Millet and Rimzee alongside interviews with Remi Burgz.
These are the artists we feel will be doing big things this year.
Homegrown: 20 Years Of 1Xtra
The story of BBC Radio 1Xtra and how over the last 20 years, it has played a pivotal role in turning Black music culture into popular mainstream culture.
1Xtra veteran, DJ Ace takes us through the journey of the UK's first national Black music radio station - featuring previously unseen archive and exclusive interviews with DJ talent, past and present as well as successful artists such as Emeli Sande, Chip, Wretch 32 & Potter Payper - all of whom got their breaks on the station.
From the stations humble beginnings and the explosion of Black British music, to difficult conversations within the Black community and the station serving as a conveyor belt for talent. This is a look at how 1Xtra has embedded Black British music within wider British culture, permanently changing not just the UK music industry and the aspirations of young Black artists and creatives, but British society in general.
This Is Amapiano
From the streets of South Africa to dancefloors around the world, a look at one of the fastest-growing new music genres, amapiano. The documentary features the most important DJs, artists and producers in amapiano, such as Major League DJz, Felo Le Tee, DBN Gogo, Daliwonga and many more. Guest appearances include Davido, and 1Xtra's DJ Edu and Jermiah Asiamah.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Q&A
Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Letitia Wright talk to Ace about honouring their friend, the late Chadwick Boseman and "the legacy he created", extreme performance training, keeping Marvel secrets, empowering women to the food on set for the ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' film.
Family Face-off
Two teams of 1Xtra presenters go head-to-head in the Family Face-off gameshow hosted by Nadia Jae.
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Whitstable Pearl
With her son grown, single mum Pearl, pursues her lifelong dream and starts a private detective agency, which she runs from her family restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon flock to her with all kinds of cases. But when a friend dies suspiciously, Pearl finds herself in conflict with gruff new cop in town DCI Mike McGuire.
Expedition Bigfoot
For the first time in history, an elite team of investigators use an advanced data algorithm to analyze five decades of Bigfoot sightings to pinpoint when and where to encounter the elusive beast. Armed with the results and state-of-the-art technology, they journey deep into the unforgiving Oregon wilderness to prove once and for all that Bigfoot is real.
Ludwig
When John ‘Ludwig' Taylor's identical twin, DCI James Taylor, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother's identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts. John has never married; never had a family and never really ventured further than his own front door. Without a computer, mobile phone or even a television, he lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of ‘Ludwig'.
This genre bending detective series follows full-time luddite, John 'Ludwig' Taylor, as he assumes the identity of his missing twin brother in a bid to track him down and bring him home. However, filling the shoes of your identical twin is one thing - when your twin also happens to be a successful DCI leading Cambridge's busy inner-city major crimes team the stakes are much higher. John may be a master of all things cryptic, but can he crack the biggest puzzle of his life?