15. Who Am I?

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

BBC

Drama, History, Fiction

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

George finds himself torn between different audiences at a crossroads in his writing. Written by George The Poet. Produced by Benbrick & George The Poet. Original music by Benbrick. Featured songs: Who Am I by Beenie Man, Step Out by Busy Signal, I Really Mean It (feat. Cam’ron & Jimmy Jones) by The Diplomats, When I’m ‘Ere by Roll Deep Featured guests: Diggy, and Conroy. We read an extract from The Guardian / The Observer article Yardie Terror Grips London published on Sunday 18th July 1999, and accessible online. We took elements from DJ Target talking about Grime from the “Welcome to the World of George The Poet” live event. Have You Heard George’s Podcast? is a George the Poet production for BBC Sounds. Commissioning Executive for BBC: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Editor for BBC: Jason Phipps

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.0	I'm not gonna lie, this podcast does contain a bit of strong language and some adult themes, so.
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to episode 15 of Have You Heard Trudis podcast.
0:18.0	Once again you find me reflecting on my success something we all like to do.
0:24.0	And once again, I'm going to be blunt if that's all right with you.
0:32.0	All I want to do is perform and write for you, but I might be enough more than I can true.
0:38.0	Spending every day and every night in studio with Benbrick recording like we do. So far we've given
0:45.2	you six more episodes that's just under three hours in the music industry that's
0:50.0	like three albums and in this chapter we got about two hours left now. You got to
0:56.8	keep a steady pace in any race if you don't want to run out of breath. So
1:01.4	before I dive into this episode I need to make a was about the commodification of black trauma. I used it to explain Reagan's neoliberalism
1:16.4	and how people suffered from his decisions. I needed this to be the starting point because it's
1:22.4	relevant in ways we can't avoid.
1:26.3	See when it comes to stories they're expected to tell our young people often feel they lack choices.
1:38.0	So throughout this podcast I've offered different ways of presenting black voices.
1:51.0	In episode 10 I did the romance thing to show intimacy on a grown man thing because the depiction of relationships in our music can sometimes be a bit cartoonish. There's a lot of focus on sex and melodrama, never just a young Barak and Michelle Obama.
1:57.0	I don't write about relationships much, but when I do, I'm the worst offender there's always
2:04.2	disappointment or a burst of temper but that doesn't fully reflect my own experience
2:08.9	and it definitely doesn't reflect my work's agenda. I also included a bit of fantasy because I want young
2:17.6	writers to think expansively. When I was 15 years old writing bars it never occurred to me to talk about flying cars.
2:25.0	I learned from the oldest who focused on certain aspects of this life of ours,
2:30.0	but it does get repetitive, and it's always a bit self-absorbed and negative which you
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