Revisited: a conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. With a really sad news today of the death of Benjamin Zephania, the British poet, musician, and professor, |
| 0:18.0 | we're revisiting an episode he made with us and George the poet from 2020. A statement released earlier by his family |
| 0:26.2 | said that Zephyr Naya died at the age of 65 in the early hours of Thursday morning |
| 0:31.2 | after being diagnosed with a brain tumor eight weeks ago. |
| 0:34.8 | You can read full coverage of the tributes to his life and his work over on the |
| 0:39.6 | guardian.com. In the meantime we hope you enjoy a listen back to one of my favorite episodes. Attention to all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
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| 1:17.0 | Wicked touch your bastard, |
| 1:21.0 | that's your whole idea too so. Any time. We keep touch a bastard touch a ho I hear you so anytime that you say stop be sure that I will go if one class is inferior and one class is on top |
| 1:31.2 | then it is plain to see clearly that government must drop. |
| 1:35.2 | That's Benjamin Zephania. It's 1980. He's in his early 20s with a scarf hanging |
| 1:41.1 | around his neck in the raster colours of green, red and gold. |
| 1:44.6 | His dreadlocks are hanging below his shoulders and he is performing passionately. This is 1989 at an anti-apartite concert in Poland. Two years later Benjamin travelled to six continents in 22 days to perform his increasingly popular poetry. That was the same year, 1991, that another artist was born in |
| 2:19.6 | Northwest London who would come to be known as George the Poet. He would also start performing young. |
| 2:25.6 | That's hard in theory so we approach it more practical. |
| 2:28.8 | And that is cool until we now go and act a fool like I'm has a shaved head, mustache and goty. He's dressed in a blue t-shirt staring at the camera. |
| 2:38.0 | George has a shaved head, mustache and |
| 2:43.7 | goatee he's dressed in a blue t-shirt staring straight at the camera. |
| 2:45.1 | But Grandfeld a man helped to colonize the land |
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