Marc Fennell
speaker
1,887 appearances
18 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Marc Fennell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 5.
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Yes, when Ghana got independence, Kwame wanted to pay tribute to Garvey's idea.
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I'll tell you what, right now, Google the Ghana flag and tell me what you see.
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Smack bang in the middle of that flag.
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Yes, a single striking black star.
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Do you regard Marcus Garvey as a criminal?
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and they threw it out.
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In 2005, the outgoing President of the United States, Joe Biden, posthumously pardoned Marcus Garvey for male fraud, ending a decades-long campaign to restore Garvey's reputation.
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Obviously,
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I guess one way of reading the the story of the Black Star line is as a failed experiment, right?
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But if you take a step back, as a symbol, it does seem to mean something much bigger.
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Big thank you to Daryl Blake there.
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And this episode was produced by Zoe Ferguson and Rebecca Metcalf.
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If you'd like to know more about Jamaica, the new series of Stuff The British Stoll is streaming right now on ABC iView.
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The last episode, the Zong, is all about Jamaica and how it became the world that Marcus Garvey inherited.
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Do check it out.
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And of course, if you've been enjoying no one saw it coming, hey, make sure you leave a review or rating wherever you get your podcasts at Mark Fennel.
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And I'll be back next week with a brand new episode of No One Saw It Coming.
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It is 1907 and you are in Paris.
It's a bright, beautiful morning in the city of love.
You're at a cafe with a coffee and a croissant, and you casually turn to the newspaper sitting on the table.
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