Marc Fennell
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1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The year is nineteen nineteen and a young Jamaican man
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Has an idea, and it it's quite an audacious one.
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He decides to create something that is unheard of.
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He said he wants to create a global shipping company that is entirely black owned and black operated.
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is a fraud.
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I'm Mark Fennel.
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And what happens when someone is a hero, a fraud, a victim, and a visionary all at once?
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Well, in the case of this one, man, that's a lot of legacy to unpack.
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And no one saw it coming.
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So these days Daryl Blake spends most of his days taking people on tours around London looking at the often hidden African stories of that city.
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And a lot of that love can be traced back to the years that Daryl spent as a kid in Jamaica.
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He went to school in Jamaica and there was this one face he would encounter on the
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Marcus Garvey is one of the most interesting people in history.
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He's a political activist from Jamaica.
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A lot of people regard him as the country's first national hero.
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He's best remembered as this leading voice in something called the Back to Africa movement, which was this campaign, particularly in America, that encouraged people of African descent to move back to Africa, to reclaim a future there after centuries of slavery and colonization.
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But to really understand Marcus Garvey, you kinda have to understand the place that made him.
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So he was born in 1887.
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And Jamaica at that point had been a British colony for more than two centuries.
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