Independent British Muslim media — Est. 2026

The story ofMuslim Britain,told properly.

Documentaries, journalism and evidence-led stories — distributed on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, with every factual claim sourced on the record, here.

4 films in productionSources published on release3 formats, 1 voice
Reported Shorts
Researched Essays
Every Claim Sourced
Full Transcripts
Corrections on the Record
Platform-Native
Reported Shorts
Researched Essays
Every Claim Sourced
Full Transcripts
Corrections on the Record
Platform-Native
Reported Shorts
Researched Essays
Every Claim Sourced
Full Transcripts
Corrections on the Record
Platform-Native
Reported Shorts
Researched Essays
Every Claim Sourced
Full Transcripts
Corrections on the Record
Platform-Native

Now in production — our first feature film

The Untold Story of Blackburn

Why do so many Muslims live in Blackburn — and why are some of Britain's largest Muslim communities concentrated in former industrial towns across Northern England? The answer begins not with religion, but with cotton.

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The Untold Story of Blackburn
IN PRODUCTION

Two formats, one voice

Shorts build the canon. Essays build the audience.

Monthly • 10–20 minutes

Documentary Shorts

Reported, archival footage, interviews, voiceover. One topic per film, from the sailors of South Shields to the mosque Victorian England forgot. Made to be cited in twenty years.

Bi-weekly • 6–10 minutes

Video Essays

Host to camera, a researched script, data on screen. Responsive to the news cycle — when Muslim Britain is in the headlines, we read past the headline.

The archive

Every episode, fully sourced

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Every claim sourced

Every factual claim made on camera links to a primary source on the episode page — census tables, archive files, monographs, FOI returns.

02

Full transcripts

The complete, human-edited transcript of every episode, published with chapter markers. Accessible, searchable, citable.

03

Corrections on the record

When we get something wrong, it goes in the public corrections log with a full account of what changed and why. No silent edits.

The Drop

New episodes and the research behind them — first.

Behind-the-scenes notes, episode drops, and the source lists before anyone else sees them. Twice a month. No noise.

Bayaan

An independent British Muslim media platform telling the story of Muslim Britain — documentaries, journalism and evidence-led stories. Every claim sourced. Every transcript published. Every correction on the record.

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New episodes and the research behind them. Twice a month.

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