35. Jamaican DemAhCrazy

Have You Heard George's Podcast?

BBC

Drama, History, Fiction

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When keeping it real goes…wrong? For a moment in the seventies, Jamaican democracy produced an ambitious plan to end inequality between countries. But when the island’s socialist leader, Michael Manley, flew too close to the sun, he got burnt. What was the New International Economic Order? Why did it rattle Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan so much? On this fast-paced tour of Jamaican history, George looks back at the rise and fall of the Third World’s biggest political project. Written by George the Poet Produced by Benbrick and George the Poet Original score composed by Benbrick and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts.
0:05.0	Music Radio Podcasts.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to episode 35 of Have You Heard George's podcast. This is the seventh episode of the fourth
0:16.0	chapter after empire. We got a guest. So I'm going to tell you about in my day, okay? Now you knew kids won't know nothing about this, but when I was a teenager my favorite playlist were dominated by
0:35.4	Jamaican flavors but the rise of Afro music may have changed this is the new favorite
0:41.6	for de Jays and Ravers.
0:43.0	Now for the first time in a long time, the song of the summer this year was a Jamaican one.
0:49.0	If Byron Messiah can keep providing this fire...
0:52.0	Yeah, bro, it's gonna have an amazing run. 9 sign. Halesk, z-tec.
1:05.0	D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah,
1:10.0	somebody say for me, somebody say for me.
1:13.0	Get it up.
1:14.0	Say your back from which back.
1:15.0	The lock so see when a run dip that.
1:18.0	Like Chinese, why?
1:19.0	So the clip dial.
1:20.0	Show it up and make a file from your distag.
1:22.0	You know why and on a disguise,
1:24.0	I'm a piece.
1:26.0	Throughout the 80s and 90s,
1:28.0	Jamaican Dance Hall came close to silence in the critics.
1:32.0	I used to think that was a good thing until I started to
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