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Have You Heard George's Podcast?

38. Once Upon a Time in Kampala

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

BBC

Drama, History, Fiction

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In Uganda’s capital city, a young cab driver forms an unlikely bond with a sex worker during the crippling lockdown of 2021. They are both forced to make tough decisions.

Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick & George the Poet Original Music and Sound Design by Benbrick.

Transcript

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0:00.0

B. way back in the 21st century.

0:14.0

Millions of people were going through it mentally.

0:22.0

The world was closed for business. A mysterious thing called COVID did this. Far,

0:31.0

far away in the West. they couldn't believe how well Africans were coping with this.

0:37.0

But even though Africa's working classes were used to working with shaky circumstances. They were still

0:45.4

trying to stay alive, yet they had to work to survive, which hurt their chances. This was bad enough in the rural areas, but it weren't just farmers. In the big cities,

0:59.4

the working class also faced urban dramas, because there was no avoiding certain hardships.

1:09.4

Hassan was an Uber driver.

1:12.4

Before this he was a retail supervisor. 29 years old but he felt much older.

1:19.2

Moved to Kampala once he graduated and he found a job market saturated.

1:26.0

See her son was trained in law, but he hardly got a chance to use his brain at all since he was on the roads all day. Yeah there was a curfew but he

1:36.6

never went home till late. Early in the pandemic this wasn't a problem because when you gandons wanted to go out

1:43.9

nothing would stop them. Fresh Right. Gee, baby, let me be your daddy,

1:54.0

O go bet you two phone some call it a video.

1:57.0

I really like your makeup.

1:59.0

The movement says this and gait what's up.

2:02.0

Sell us in the now with the way I can snap. So basically she's calling me a zangk what's up. Selle things and I was a kueninne.

2:05.0

So basically she's calling me immature.

2:10.0

She's calling me immature.

2:12.0

Yeah, I'm saying she's insecure

2:15.7

But Valentine's Day was three months ago. Tell me why this girl's messaging me unprovokes and she wants to know why I never got her nothing because my

2:24.5

Breger met her cousin after we started linking and he done the most.

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