Poppy Jay

Poppy Jay is a self-shooting British-Bangladeshi producer-director and investigative journalist who does not shy away from provocative or challenging subject matters. Her strong journalistic credibility has seen her present and direct the likes of Young, British and Anti-Abortion (BBC One, 2024), Young, Black and Right-Wing (Channel 4, 2022) and Dispatches special Isis: The British Women Supporters Unveiled (Channel 4, 2015).

These varied subject matters demonstrate her range of skills, which include pitching for and reporting on such documentaries as Rescuing Ex-Muslims: Leaving Islam (VICE, 2016), Young and Sterile: My Choice (BBC One, 2017) and The Truth about Upskirting (BBC Three, 2017). Poppy’s tenacity and chameleon-like nature led to a BAFTA nomination for Emerging Talent: Factual in 2022 for documentary Queens of Rap (Channel 4, 2021), which she directed, produced and presented.

As one half of the award-winning podcasting duo Brown Girls Do It Too, Poppy talks candidly, informatively and humorously about sex, dating and relationships as a modern British South Asian woman. The show won AudioBoom’s Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards 2020 and Best Podcast at The Asian Media Awards in 2021 and has now finished a fifth season, with a sixth commissioned. It successfully toured in the UK in 2022 and will be returning to the stage at the Soho Theatre and debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2025.

Poppy also co-hosted the BBC Asian Network’s Group Chat, which won her an ARIA (Audio and Radio Industry Awards) for Best New Presenter in 2021.