From 2020: Rebeccamead_NYC writes about an unconventional—and unpredictable—British podcast that is delivered mostly in rhyme.
,” by George Mpanga, a British spoken-word artist and activist, does just that, as evidenced by the nominations received for its first season at last year’s British Podcast Awards. It was nominated in six disparate categories: Best Current Affairs, Moment of the Year, Best Arts & Culture, Best Fiction, Best New Podcast, and Smartest Podcast, the latter four of which it won, along with a special award as Podcast of the Year.
Formally, the podcast is unpredictable, moving between memoir, reportage, fiction, even comedy. At one moment, “Have You Heard George’s Podcast?” offers consciousness-raising exhortation; at the next, consciousness-streaming self-examination.
As a child, Mpanga was set on a different path by his own parents, who were discovering that the education system had lower expectations for their children than they did. Mpanga was accepted at eleven into Queen Elizabeth Boys, a selective secondary school in a more affluent area that entailed a three-hour round trip by bus from his home. “My mum obviously wanted me to go to Q.E.
Mpanga’s consideration of his relationship with his parents’ homeland of Uganda, and with his own homeland of Britain, fuels the podcast’s profoundest inquiry. At a moment when it seems that the entire country, having finally Brexited, is engaged in a painful process of figuring out its identity, Mpanga’s journey through his own story offers unexpected resonances for listeners of quite different backgrounds from his own.
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