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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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1997, and a group of disaffected teenage goths move into a shared house in Newcastle, embracing the macabre and melancholic goth lifestyle. But when you look into the darkness, sometimes it looks back…
Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: Alasdair Beckett-King and Evelyn Hollow Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard
A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.5 | The party is raging. |
| 0:09.8 | Drinks flowing, laughter echoing. |
| 0:12.8 | But this isn't your standard night out. |
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| 0:28.7 | You don't think it can happen to you, but it does. |
| 0:31.0 | Gangster presents sex, drugs and cell block parties. |
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| 0:44.9 | I am walking through the centre of Newcastle-upontine in the north-east of England. |
| 0:49.5 | It's a city that is full of history. Hadrian's Roman Wall starts here. |
| 0:52.6 | It's also the city that I grew up in. It's my hometown. |
| 0:55.1 | I lived here until I was 18 and I'm walking through streets and I know like the back of my hand towards one of my old haunts. It's just |
| 1:00.0 | round this corner. Here it is. It is a patch of grass in front of a shopping centre. |
| 1:06.0 | There's nothing very spectacular to look at. But back when I was growing up, this was nicknamed the Hippie Green. |
| 1:12.6 | And it's where anybody who had any kind of interest in alternative music hung out. |
| 1:16.6 | The indie kids, the metalers, but mainly the goffs. |
| 1:20.6 | And I was never quite a fully-fledged, got myself. |
| 1:22.6 | I was never quite brave enough to get fully dressed up. |
| 1:25.6 | But lots of my friends were. |
| 1:26.6 | And I used to sit here with |
| 1:28.4 | them listening to music, hanging out, chatting. And the story that we are about to tell happens to |
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