Podcards

This episode we return to Zimbabwe, via a Podcard by our storyteller Nomsa Mushambi, sent from her childhood there in the 1960s. Her story highlights the injustice, racial superiority and segregation perpetuated by white colonialism, but also the nuances felt by those who have been colonised. CONTENT WARNING: please be aware this episode includes descriptions of racial violence. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com

Lilia Bogle sends us a Jamaican Podcard from 1960s Britain, underlining the prejudice and judgement experienced by many immigrants from former colonies, when making a new life in their UK motherland. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com

This episode native Hong Konger, Michelle Wang gives us her perspective on her post-colonial home, with its changing national politics and vestiges of colonialism. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com

Growing up as a Brit abroad, Sally Byron sends us a podcard from her childhood at the end of the British Raj in India & Pakistan in the 1930s. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com

Shamiso Mushambi sends us a podcard from Zimbabwe in the 1990s, sharing her experience of race and identity while growing up in a post-colonial country. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com

This episode features a Podcard from 1950s Malaya, written and read by Wen Quek. Her story shows how a person’s name can provide a roadmap to both their experience as “the colonised” and their identity as a whole. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com

Join me, Sahiba, as I begin a storytelling journey through the legacy of the British Empire via the extraordinary experiences of everyday people, starting with my grandfather in 1940s India. Each Podcard is a short story that paints a vivid picture of a moment in colonial history through a true, lived experience. If you would like to contribute or help collect stories, you can find me on Instagram as @podcards. Theme music by John-Poul Ng-Blichfeldt. Scripts can be made available for hard of hearing - email podcardsfrom@gmail.com