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 2 The manager is badly wounded, the police have arrived, and the armed robbery has now become a siege.
CAST NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah 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. |
| 0:04.7 | Well, I mean, the first thing to say is we never called ourselves hostages at that stage. |
| 0:09.1 | Well, we wouldn't have thought of it. |
| 0:10.7 | I know that's what the papers called us, and I suppose that's what we were. |
| 0:14.4 | But we're just people. |
| 0:16.3 | I don't know. Shoppers, members of the public, idiots. |
| 0:21.4 | He wasn't planning to keep us there. |
| 0:23.7 | That was never the plan. |
| 0:25.0 | He just wanted to rob the place. |
| 0:27.3 | And then it escalated. |
| 0:40.0 | The police were outside. |
| 0:41.8 | I could hear them like, |
| 0:43.9 | I thought like I was in the movie or something. |
| 0:45.8 | Sirens ringing in my ear. |
| 0:50.2 | It sounded like there was, I don't know, like five, maybe ten police cars outside. |
| 0:52.3 | That's for this one guy, you know. |
| 0:54.7 | I started wondering what I was going to do if there was like a shootout with the police. Stuff like this always ends in a shoot out between the good guys |
| 0:59.8 | and the bad guys. But this wasn't even the end, like it was just the beginning. Someone had |
| 1:04.7 | already been shot. And I won't even sure who the good guys were anymore. The manager was proper bleeding like bears. |
| 1:13.7 | There was blood on my shoes. |
| 1:15.7 | I must have stepped in it. |
| 1:17.8 | Maggie sent me to get alcohol and that blue paper roll thing. |
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