Episode 44
Trailblazer
How Michaela Coel became the most important talent in British TV
The Slow Newscast · Alice Sandelson
August 20, 202025m 44s
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Show Notes
Michaela Coel's TV drama I May Destroy You has just finished playing on the BBC and HBO. Based partly on her own experience it's an unsettling, sometimes harrowing, examination of sexual assault, consent, friendship, and the experience of growing up Black and British. It may come to be seen as a watershed moment in British television, and it's not Coel's first. Basia Cummings talks to journalist and critic Yomi Adegoke about Michaela Coel's remarkable talent.
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