Summary
By Katherine Jakeways, Eno Mfon and Darragh Mortell.
Everybody remembers the Siege, when for 24 hours the whole world was watching a small South London branch of a global supermarket chain. You’ve seen the news, the crazy conspiracy blogs and Naomi’s infamous Snap. Now for the first time the hostages tell the inside story of what really happened on those two dark days in December.
Episode 1. For 5 shoppers and a security guard, it’s just another day in the supermarket until a masked man walks in with a gun.
CAST NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah KEMI - Layo-Christina Akinlude PENNY - Jasmine Hyde MAGGIE - Stacey Abalogun
SOUND DESIGN – Catherine Robinson DIRECTOR - John Norton PRODUCED by John Norton and James Robinson
A BBC Cymru Wales Production
Siege is the latest drama in the Limelight strand and will also be available in full on BBC Sounds from Monday 7 February as a 5-part podcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Is my mom going to be able to hear this? |
| 0:12.1 | Okay, yeah, okay. |
| 0:14.4 | My name is Naomi, Naomi Rogers. |
| 0:18.8 | So basically, I was supposed to be in maths, and then I come out, and I see Trinity, and she was like, oh, do you want to go out for lunch? And I was like, what? What, me? Because basically, Trinity doesn't speak to me, and she's never really had a proper conversation with me. So obviously I was like, yeah, because she's a prettiest girl in school, and then it's like Coral and Alexa. Okay, yeah, sorry. So anyway, Trinity asked me if I wanted to go and I was like, yeah, boom. And we were supposed to be back before lunch. But even if we were like five minutes late, it wouldn't really matter because we had Mr. Brooke and he don't care. Like, he's literally, he's going through divorce or something because his shirts is proper creased. |
| 0:56.1 | Like, his breath is always smelling like some kind of alcohol. |
| 0:58.9 | I do feel sorry for him, though. |
| 1:00.2 | Like, I feel like he needs to go counselling or something, |
| 1:02.4 | but it's not really my place to say, do you know what I mean? |
| 1:04.3 | But anyway, my point is we could have been late back, isn't it? |
| 1:09.4 | Well, I met Trinity and other girls in the toilets at lunch and they came out like, are you ready? And I was thinking, is this really happening? Like, I'm actually doing this. Yes, yes, I'm ready. Obviously, I had no idea what was going to happen. I'm Jacko. And before we get this thing popping, I just want to make it clear that I don't trust you. |
| 1:29.2 | I don't trust any mainstream media for that matter, but the online theories are getting more Alice in Wonderland by the day. |
| 1:34.1 | So I figured that out of all of the snakes, you're the least snaky. |
| 1:38.2 | Listen, okay, I'm just here to tell the truth. |
| 1:42.2 | Eh, I was not supposed to be at the supermarket. |
| 1:46.4 | They're the ones who said 12.30. |
| 1:48.1 | That we should all meet at 12.30. |
| 1:50.6 | It was Pastor Richard himself who said, don't be late. |
| 1:53.1 | Lidness is an abomination to God. |
| 1:55.1 | And where was he? |
| 1:56.1 | Late. |
| 1:57.0 | I arrived on time. |
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