Benjamin Zephaniah • Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #353
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
Without a doubt, an episode that’s been a long time in the making - at last, Pip catches up with national trasure, poet, writer and lyricist BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH!
Pure enjoyment from the Birmingham legend as he and Pip catch up and talk about all things poetry but so much more… Beginning at the beginning of time itself, they move through viruses, “unpredictable” times, nature, the meat industry, finance and politics, squashing Twitter beefs, Bob Marley, doing gigs and slowly finding his crew, Life & Rhymes and everything contained within, finding and celebrating music in the words, performance poetry vs page poetry and of course, Peaky Blinders! Amazing. Commence listening immediately.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 353. It's a lot of podcasts, isn't it, man? |
| 0:07.9 | Hope you're holding up okay, whichever side of the Atlantic you're on and whichever |
| 0:14.1 | Week of madness you've had you've either had that election week or you've had a lockdown to start so |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, perfect time for some podcasts, right and some podcasts that will distract you |
| 0:27.8 | Beautifully before we get into it. I thought it's worth mentioning |
| 0:31.7 | Over on my Instagram as a weekly thing on Wednesdays and a few other little extra bits, but I've started to |
| 0:38.8 | upload spoken word performances of mine on Wednesdays onto Instagram TV kind of as a |
| 0:46.0 | Realising that this this pandemic is never ending at the moment |
| 0:50.3 | I mean largely because of how it's been handled, but let's not get into that now |
| 0:54.9 | But I thought I'd give you something free to distract you so yeah, there's like |
| 0:59.7 | Three up so far. There'll be another one going up today |
| 1:03.4 | So yeah head to at screwbius ppio and click on Instagram and look at the little TV bit |
| 1:09.8 | There's a little TV icon that you can click and there's a load of of live spoken word on |
| 1:15.9 | There this week's podcast is with a guest that people have been requesting for ages and I've wanted on for ages |
| 1:22.4 | I was nervous about to be completely honest because |
| 1:25.1 | It's Benjamin's F and I and he's the one kind of |
| 1:28.9 | Person on the spoken word scene that I never cross paths with really |
| 1:34.3 | We talk a little bit about John Cooper Clark who's a previous guest and we cross paths a few times |
| 1:40.0 | We got on well. He's a good guy. Obviously people like Kate Tempest polar bear all previous guests Tim Claire |
| 1:48.5 | Mark grist Ross |
| 1:50.3 | Saveland all these |
| 1:52.0 | spoken word scene people who have previously been on the podcast all people I know and friends with but |
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