Fear & Loathing in Southend-on-Sea: Episode 77
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Drugs, guns, wannabe gangsters. A depressing combination seen all over the UK but in this episode we concentrate on one story from Southend in 2001, with devastating consequences for so many people. And still it goes on….
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 77 of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast. I'm Adam. |
| 0:06.9 | When you hear the East Coast town south end on C mentioned, what do you think of? |
| 0:12.5 | The longest pier in the UK at 1.3 miles long? Or if you grew up in the extent of London, |
| 0:18.6 | you might have childhood memories of visits to the seaside, |
| 0:22.2 | needing jelly deals or pie a mash by the beach. Or you might just have watched that on |
| 0:27.0 | EastEnders or only Fawz and Horses. I live nearby and it's an interesting town, |
| 0:32.9 | lying only 40 miles east of central London and undergoing significant redevelopment at the moment. |
| 0:39.3 | But in today's story, we explore the cdia parts of town and some of the people involved in the |
| 0:44.9 | drugstrade who distribute their misery and collect their money around south end and other parts of |
| 0:51.8 | southeast Essex. But before we begin, a big thank you to my supporters on Patreon and especially |
| 0:58.6 | my new supporters, that's layer and Rainer Amir. Bonus episode 15 will be released this week, |
| 1:05.2 | which will be awesome, of course, and I'm so grateful for all your support. This is why I'm |
| 1:11.0 | today able to record weekly, even if a tad late this week. Look, I'll just blame on technical |
| 1:17.1 | issues and I'm sure you find that one hard to believe. Number one in the charts in February 2001 |
| 1:24.3 | was a atomic kitten with hole again, keeping outcasts with Miss Jackson off the top spot, |
| 1:30.9 | as if I would make a Kerry Katona gag. As if. And number one in the US was Joe featuring mystical |
| 1:39.6 | with stutter. I must say a big thank you to my Australian listeners who introduce me to the |
| 1:45.4 | joys of Darryl Braithwaite after I confessed to not knowing him last week. Wow, how did I miss |
| 1:51.7 | this guy? For those of you who still don't recognise him, you can't fail to be entranced and |
| 1:57.2 | moved to tears by some of his lyrics. For example, from his existential masterpiece The Horses, |
| 2:03.6 | Darryl explores the nature of being totally alone in the world with lyrics such as, |
| 2:09.0 | we'll be riding on the horses, yeah, way up in the sky, little darling. Hell, what is the not to |
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