It's 2003 in Birmingham.

Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here.

They were capable of murder.

Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies.

The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore.

We're going to be even more violent than you.

Before turning on each other.

I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys.

Listen first on BBC Sounds.

How did you think that I could read your mind at times?

Maybe that's normal.

It's not.

Obsessed with normal people. Oh, Connell, Connell, Connell, you absolute beauty of a man.

But he's doing my head in Havana. He's just not communicating.

I just want him to say more words. that so much to ask I know he is very much a typical Irish teenage boy no

offense to them but no offense no no no I mean I one myself. Hi there by the way my name is Riyadh. I'm an author and presenter and I'm

Ivana Lynch and I'm an actress and podcaster and we are obsessed with normal

people. So normal people is sort of the love story of our

generation. I know so many people read it and saw themselves in those

characters and in that that relationship it reminds us of like our first love or maybe the one that got away or the love of our life or something.

It's just these two people who meet each other and then weave in and out of each other's lives as they go through

so many things and we're going to embrace every facet of this story in this podcast.

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