Rivers of Chud ft. Rohan Banerjee

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Riley (@raaleh) and Rohan Banerjee (@RBanerjee23), who co-hosts the podcast No Country for Brown Men (@NC4brownmen), sit down to talk about the enduring, rotten legacy of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech, which is being re-broadcast in full by the BBC today for reasons utterly beyond any of us. We talk instead about why racism is not a thing of the past, and the hypocritical approach to history taken by the British establishment. Listen to this instead of the dumb BBC thing.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to a very special, I was going to say broadcast.
0:18.5	I guess it's more of a podcast of Trash Future, the podcast about how
0:23.2	the future and today the present is trash. This is a special Saturday edition. This is an extra.
0:34.5	My name is Riley. You may remember me from every previous episode of this podcast. And today, I am joined by Rohan Banerjee, who is a journalist at the New Statesman and is also the co-host of No Country for Brown Men, which is a podcast that he made and will be
0:57.6	relaunching soon. Yeah, myself and Hussein Kisvani, who has obviously appeared on this show before,
1:02.9	we are relaunching the podcast. We have been asked, when is it happening? The answer is soon,
1:08.0	very non-committal stance, but it is happening. We are coming back. We're
1:11.6	going to be better than we were before. And yeah, we look forward to it. But we are definitely
1:15.5	coming back. And, you know, for those of those of you have been tweeting us, you know, it is happening.
1:19.9	We promise. It's just a matter of time. Finally, the country will be specifically for brown men.
1:25.6	Exactly. Exactly that. Rohan and I are sitting down today because the BBC has taken the bizarre decision to re-broadcast
1:36.1	a basically fascist speech from Britain's checkered past.
1:43.7	And they've decided to rebroadcast, re first airing of the speech on British airwaves in full ever in history.
1:54.4	Again, I don't know why that's considered to be good or significant, but they appeared to say it.
1:59.6	And it has high production values and it has commentary,
2:02.6	but it's still being represented.
2:04.6	And we think that's basically a bad idea.
2:09.6	So we've decided that we're going to do something a little bit different.
2:13.6	We are going to talk about this speech. It is the Rivers of Blood speech,
2:21.2	famously as is called, given by Conservative MP Enick Powell. We're not really going to quote it that
2:27.0	much. Instead, I think we're going to talk about its sort of rotten legacy and sort of resitusituating it in history to try and you know
2:38.2	give an alternative before we launch into commentary I'm just going to briefly
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