Zing’s reached the end of her adventure around the UK and it’s time for her to make a decision: does she want to give up her Singaporean passport for a British one? Has touring the country and having frank and difficult conversations about nati

“Geordies - we’re a tenacious bunch of people!”

1 May 4th, 2020 23m 3s

Something that still occasionally baffles Zing about life in the UK is the British sense of humour. Why does it often involve taking the piss out of the people you love most, or jokes about the bleakest things imaginable? This week Zing puts he

“Glasgow’s creative, contradictory and rough around the edges”

1 Apr 27th, 2020 29m 35s

Zing’s first trip to Glasgow has to wait because of the coronavirus lockdown. Luckily, Glaswegian poet and performer Kevin Gilday has the perfect antidote to Zing's cabin fever: a virtual tour around the places, culture and history of his home

“Our patriotism is quiet and subtle”

1 Apr 20th, 2020 25m 7s

Zing is in York chatting to student and political activist, Dominique Samuels. Dominique is the president of Orthodox Conservatives, a new conservative pressure group. Zing hasn’t met too many young Brits with conservative views and she’s keen

“Elbow deep in cow muck – and I love this!”

1 Apr 13th, 2020 21m 42s

Zing heads to Lytham in rural Lancashire for a trip to Tom Pemberton’s farm. Tom’s the fifth generation of farmers in his family and he’s one of very few young people in the UK working in this tough industry. He’s also something of a farming in

“This is British now. What are you gonna do about it?”

1 Apr 6th, 2020 25m 39s

Zing speaks to poet and photographer Nabeelah Hafeez about what being from Bradford means to her and why the city’s arts scene is thriving now. Nabeelah feels that negative news stories about Bradford being a segregated city are exaggerated, bu

“Speaking Welsh is vibrant and cool”

1 Mar 30th, 2020 25m 43s

“People have had to really fight to keep the language alive, which is why it’s vibrant now”. Zing heads to Cardiff to meet Lisa Angharad, host of possibly the first ever sex podcast in Welsh – Siarad Secs. Lisa wants to provide young Welsh spea

“British drag is slapdash and hodgepodge”

1 Mar 23rd, 2020 25m 11s

When RuPaul’s Drag Race launched in the UK last year Zing noticed lots of fans saying the show made them feel strangely patriotic. The contestants were bawdy, slapdash, raucous and not as earnest or polished as the queens of the original Americ

"Essex has given me my ballsiness"

2 Mar 16th, 2020 33m 28s

Zing heads to Witham to meet self-described proud Essex girl, councillor Chelsey Jay. Chelsey was elected last year to the local town council at the age of 28. For Chelsey, being from Essex is all about being "ballsy" and ignoring snobbish ster

"Maybe Liverpool isn't real, maybe we just dreamed it"

1 Mar 16th, 2020 26m 12s

Zing Tsjeng, Executive Editor at VICE UK, is on a journey around the UK trying to figure out what being British is all about. After living in the UK half her life, she wants to decide whether to trade her Singaporean passport for a British one.

Welcome to United Zingdom

Mar 9th, 2020 3m 16s

Zing Tsjeng, executive editor at VICE UK, can apply for a British passport. But there’s a catch. She’s already got one from Singapore, the country where she was born and raised, and she’s not allowed to have both – it’s either a British passpor

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