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A quick note about our show.

We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your boring high school history class.

So while this story is based on actual events, certain characterizations, incidents, and other details are dramatized.

And a royal heads up, today's episode contains discussions of racism,

and we will be swearing about that.

So keep those earbuds in if you're at work, and please be advised.

It's March 6th, 1950 in London, and Sorette Kama is in his flat, or an apartment for us non-fancy speakers.

And that is me.

Yeah, I say flat.

Of course you do.

Well, you famously went to London, so.

And I famously know of it.

Yep.

A few hours earlier, Soretze learned that the British government exiled him from Bechwanaland for the next five years.

And that's if they keep their word.

So now, he's in his apartment along with a camera crew from British movie tone news.

The crew is rushing around his living room, adjusting lights and setting up their shot.

Sorretze looks sharp and solemn in a dark suit in tie.

He's sitting at his desk, rearranging papers, cool as a cucumber,

which is a far cry from how he was doing just a few hours ago.

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