Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Daliso Chaponda is back for a fourth series. Episode 1 - Monsters Under The Bed. In this new series, Daliso is in a more philosophical mood. We find him working through his thoughts, feelings, and opinions by sharing his stories with a live audience in his hometown of Manchester. Since his last series, Daliso has become a British Citizen and is looking forward to talking about anything other than being a migrant. To prove he’s no longer a 'Citizen of Nowhere', he’s decided to write silly jokes about animals, Hobbits, and monsters under the bed! But Daliso soon realises that he won’t get to truly enjoy his spoils just yet, because anti-immigrant sentiment has become unavoidable… In fact, what Daliso really finds in his first show since becoming a Brit is that those monsters under the bed have started to crawl out and take on a different meaning altogether. Seeking advice from his father, a former refugee who worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees before returning to Malawi and becoming a politician, he gets his expert opinion on the current migrant crisis and gets to the bottom of whether his dad really did try to ban farting in Malawi. Writer... Daliso Chaponda Additional Material... Meryl O'Rourke Production Co-Ordinator... Katie Baum Sound Manger... Jerry Peal Theme music by Lawi Image by Steve Ullathorne Producer... Carl Cooper This is a BBC Studios Production for Radio 4. -- Daliso Chaponda shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent, making it to the final of the 2017 series and establishing himself a firm favourite with the judges and the British public. He became a Facebook and YouTube star amassing over 200 million views of his performances. He's also appeared on the Royal Variety Performance. He has performed around the world and at the Edinburgh, Melbourne, Singapore, and Cape Town comedy festivals. He has also toured the UK and Africa to sell out audiences and rave reviews. In addition to standup comedy, Daliso is also a prolific fiction writer. He has published science fiction, murder mysteries and fantasy fiction in numerous magazines, and anthologies. He is currently working on his new novel and a children’s book. This is this fourth series of his Rose D'Or nominated Radio 4 series.

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0:00.0	Hello, Gary Lednika here with Alan Shira and Michael Richards to say the match of the day top 10 podcast is back
0:07.4	We'll be ranking our footballing top 10s and debiting. It was right. Well, it's don't be me. Not a champ, it's Gary
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0:39.4	Please welcome to the stage Deliso Chappanda
0:42.4	Thank you, thank you. Welcome to episode one of series four of citizen of nowhere. So first thing I will tell you that is I am not going to talk about the illegal immigration bill or the small boats thing
1:07.2	Like I know with the title citizen of nowhere that there is a high chance you'd imagine that's what I was going to talk about but that's not what I want to talk about
1:15.7	For the first two series it was all about Africa and the UK. That's the only way I could get it commissioned
1:23.4	No, literally I realized pretty early on in my career that if I want something I have to Africa it's up
1:31.8	I literally did like a television show and I talked about love, family, religion, and Africa and the only stuff that made it on air was the bit about Africa
1:43.8	So the next time I had an opportunity I talked about Africa for eight minutes
1:48.8	And I loved having the opportunity, but sometimes I'd almost feel hemmed in and then you'd hear people complaining about oh these black comedians
1:56.8	They're always banging on about race and I'll be like I talked about other things, but they added it out
2:03.8	And so I felt very limited and I was looking forward to talk about other stuff and so when in the third series they'd heard me talk about this
2:11.8	And like oh you can talk about what you want it was very liberating and I was able to talk about other things
2:15.8	I wrote silly jokes
2:17.8	I found out a story this week, I want to talk about in the show, there is in Huang Zhu Zhu a bear
2:26.8	That people think is a human dressed up as a bear
2:31.8	This is my favorite story in the world
2:35.8	But what I don't understand is this has come out because people are complaining about it
2:40.8	If I went to the zoo and saw an animal which seemed to be a human pretending to be an animal
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