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Suspect

Five Shots in the Dark | Escape in the Song | 10

Suspect

Wondery | Campside

True Crime, Chameleon, Arpana Jinaga, Over My Dead Body, Matthew Shaer, The Shrink Next Door, Exhibit C, Eric Benson

4.26.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Music is a central part of how Leon Benson experiences the world around him. Suspect sound designer, Garrett Tiedemann, sits down with Leon to discuss his lifelong musical journey.

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0:00.0

One of the things I learned about Leon Benson when I first spoke to him almost a year ago

0:15.6

was that music was absolutely central to his life.

0:19.4

He was a rapper, and not just an enthusiastic guy would drop a few verses now and then.

0:24.6

He'd secretly recorded music while in prison, managed to smuggle the recordings out, and

0:29.7

then collaborated with a production company called Die Jim Crow Records, which was set

0:34.6

up specifically to release music by prison-impacted artists.

0:39.4

His first album is out now, and it's powerful.

0:42.5

It's called Innocent Born Guilty.

0:47.4

Hip-hop is a big part of how Leon sees the world, and we'd always wanted listeners to

0:51.9

hear his music, and to hear Leon talking about his music.

0:56.2

We didn't feel like we had enough of that in the first nine episodes of this show.

1:00.5

So for our second bonus episode, we wanted to interview Leon about his art, and how it

1:05.8

connects so deeply to his life.

1:10.3

From campside media in Wondery, I'm Matthew Shere, and this is Suspect, five shots in

1:16.5

the dark.

1:17.8

This is the second bonus episode, Escape in the Song.

1:27.2

This episode is sponsored by the new documentary, Colleen Rooney, The Real Wagatha Story, streaming

1:32.4

exclusively on Disney+.

1:34.7

There have been many variations of the Wagatha saga, and now it's time to uncover her truth.

1:39.6

In this three-part, original series, Colleen will tell her story in her own words for the

1:43.8

first time.

1:45.3

Tune in to learn how Colleen figured out who was leaking her stories to the press, get

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