Beverley Knight

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Society & Culture

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Born to Jamaican parents, Beverley Knight grew up in a dedicated Pentecostal household where church attendance and music performance were inextricably linked and singing was an act of devotion to God. By the time Knight was a young adult she regarded her passion as a serious professional prospect, and as she completed her philosophy degree her records played in the clubs of Cheltenham. She’s now starring in The Drifter’s Girl at the Garrick Theatre in London.

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0:00.0	Birmingham.
0:01.0	Being an actor, I find it easy to switch.
0:03.0	One minute, I am an impulsive detective.
0:06.0	Then...
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0:28.8	forward slash mobile. This is a global original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project that lets me spend a little bit more time
0:41.8	than would be available on the radio show with people that I want to spend a little bit
0:46.2	more time with than would be available on the radio show.
0:48.6	And we should be especially grateful this week to Beverly Night because, I mean,
0:52.1	you're squeezing me in between recording cast albums,
0:55.2	matinees, evening shows. Your new musical The Drifter's Girl is knocking it out of the park.
1:01.1	Pretty much like everything you've ever done, Beth, if we're honest. I thought I'd start with a hard,
1:05.2	I'd start with a hard question. Let's start with a toughie. Yeah. It's been a, God, yeah, the reception to Drifter's Girl has been incredible, really.
1:18.0	I wondered how it would be received.
1:20.9	I knew the songs would be received well because everybody knows the songs.
1:24.8	And yes, it is a jukebox musical.
1:30.0	But even if you parked the songs, the story of just how that group came to be,
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