Listen to Season One of ‘White Privilege: Radio Play’ Podcast

The first season of the White Privilege: Radio Play podcast is available on major podcast platforms including Spotify, Apple, and Stitcher. The fictional narrative series tells the story of Ashley Allen, a Black and Jewish woman who passes for white while working for an ultra-conservative news network. The series was written and directed by Natasha Lewin, who is Black and Jewish, a The New York Times Best Selling author, and former managing editor for High Times magazine.

Produced by Creating, Etcetera, White Privilege: Radio Play, the series comprising six 10-minute episodes, chronicles Ashley's struggle to be accepted by her Black media peers, cope with finding success as an on-air personality for Sly News while keeping her Black heritage a secret. Lewin explains her character. "She's given the keys to a cushy carefree world most races and religions will never have access to," she says. "As she slips further into the undertow of entitlement, Ashley is called to speak up and speak out against bigotry and hate, starting first with a career she worked so hard to build. And then with her own relationships and family."

The riveting podcast series released during a pandemic, heightened racial tension, and social unrest has parallels to Lewin's real-life experiences as the daughter of a Jewish father and African American mother. "White folks can be their worst when they think they're among their own," she explains. "If you ever meet me in person, ask about my six days in Kentucky in 1995. The last words my parents said as they dropped me off: 'Just don't tell anybody what you are.' Sorry Blumhouse, your horror stories don't even come close."

Listen to the podcast HERE.