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THEY CAME. THEY SAW. THEY LOOTED.
Marc Fennell.
The second season of the award-winning history podcast, Stuff the British Stole, produced in collaboration with CBC Podcasts, launched recently.
In it, creator and host Marc Fennell explores the not-so-polite history behind artifacts housed in museums around the world.
Fennell believes it’s an important part of history and that’s why it resonates so strongly with listeners around the world. The series shot to #1 on Apple Podcasts Australia and garnered widespread international acclaim.
Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today, those objects are housed in museums and cultural institutions across the UK and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. Each episode, Fennell picks one artifact and takes listeners on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adventure of how it got to where it is now. Ultimately, this isn’t really a series about the past. It’s about making sense of the world we have today.
The award-winning international journalist and documentary maker has worked across the globe reporting on everything from the Hong Kong protests to a $10 million heist of Californian nuts (yes, nuts). On television, Fennell is currently the host of the Australian edition of the quiz show Mastermind, the groundbreaking documentary series The School That Tried to End Racism and national current affairs programs The Feed and Dateline. In 2019, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians.
Fennell has also written two books, has two kids and he usually lives in Sydney, Australia.
He also happens to be Singaporean/Irish/Indian/Australian – basically a colonial cocktail, liberally free-poured direct from different corners of the British Empire.