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Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

15: Paapa Essiedu

Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...

Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

At just 25 Paapa Essiedu became the first black actor in the history of the RSC to play Hamlet.
Since then he has performed in a number of Shakespeare productions and can currently be seen in the acclaimed BBC drama ‘I May Destroy You’ and Sky Atlantics latest hit ‘Gangs of London’.

All the music in this episode is by ‘Waiting For Smith’, go and check out more from ‘Waiting For Smith’ on Spotify and follow him on social media. and

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This episode contains strong language.

Produced by Dan Quick

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Tax credits are coming to an end and most people will be asked to apply for

0:08.1

universal credit instead. The Department for Work and Pensions is writing to Tax Credit claimants.

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And there's also lots of support to help you make the move.

0:22.0

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0:25.2

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0:28.2

Eligibility criteria apply. My guest today is the prodigiously talented young actor Papa Sia Du, a man who almost begun his career with Hamlet.

0:47.0

We discussed Des Island Zoom's Black Lives Matter and bringing Shakespeare to the masses

0:51.9

and it was my utter pleasure to spend an hour of him.

0:57.0

Yes it's true.

1:01.0

When I'm darling I'm blue. How's it going?

1:05.0

it going.

1:06.0

Yeah I'm not too bad. I'm sorry I think I was in the wrong waiting room.

1:09.0

I don't even know how that works.

1:11.0

I don't even know how that's possible. How many people can be in a

1:14.6

waiting room at the same time? I think it's actually limitless. It's a brave new world.

1:26.4

Okay if you would be in a Zoom waiting room with anyone, top five pick. Let's begin with that. Is this like a budget desert island is? It is. It's for the COVID generation. Just right, you're in an

1:37.8

internet waiting room, the screen is black, you don't get to see it, but you just feel

1:41.9

their presence. who are they?

1:43.2

Oh wow so it's really about it's really about aura right?

1:48.0

Yeah the audio goes off the audio everything's off.

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