Summer Comedy Festival - Daliso Chaponda

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

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Comedy

4.2 • 13.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Expect a summer festival with a difference as some of the nation's favourite comics turn curators and host a virtual festival featuring their favourite performers from the worlds of comedy, literature and spoken word. They'll be in control of everything (even the weather) as we're taken along for the ride to not only hear some great performances but also to get an insight into the cultural radars of our celebrity hosts. In episode 3 it's Malawian comedian Daliso Chaponda's turn as host as he wanders round his own fantasy Festival of Protest. Black Lives Matter, Me Too, climate change, cancel culture and social mobility are all explored by Daliso and his passionate guests. Host... Daliso Chaponda Guest... Athena Kugblenu Guest... Scott Bennett Guest... Kate Lucas Guest... Russell Kane Producer... Carl Cooper Production co-ordinator... Caroline Barlow Sound... Chris McLean This is a BBC Studios Production

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	From the one relays, behind the mounting.
0:08.0	Imagine you're living a very different life on the other side of the world.
0:12.0	You'll feel I cannot do anything.
0:14.0	You live silently in the shadows.
0:16.0	Just stay home, bring children, make food.
0:20.0	And then someone takes your child,
0:23.0	disappears into the night with your little girl,
0:26.0	and you can't stay silent any longer.
0:29.0	And you'll do whatever it takes.
0:31.0	Travel thousands of miles across the globe to find your missing daughter.
0:35.0	This is my child. I look after this child.
0:38.0	Like, I'm tired of you. Just go everywhere.
0:42.0	Join me, Sue Mitchell, for this gripping new BBC Radio 4 Podcast series.
0:47.0	Subscribe to Girl Taken on BBC Sounds.
0:53.0	Testing, testing. This is me, Taken.
0:56.0	Hey, how are you doing?
0:57.0	I am Malauian Stand-Up comedian, Delisertroponder,
1:00.0	and I've been to lots of festivals.
1:02.0	I've done the Cape Town Festival, the Melbourne Festival,
1:05.0	the Just for Last Festival, and many others.
1:07.0	But this is the first festival that I am organizing.
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