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 2 dark days in December.
Episode 4. After some terrible news, the gunman goes crazy. Jackson can no longer cope and Kemi tries to calm the group. Speculation continues online about accomplices, Penny opens up about her family and Maggie has a plan. The ransom money is on the way.
CAST NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah KEMI - Layo-Christina Akinlude PENNY - Jasmine Hyde MAGGIE - Stacey Abalogun DEREK - Ewan Bailey NEWS REPORTER - Layo-Christina Akinlude
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. |
| 0:05.0 | The day all this kicked off, my music guide sent me some bad boy stems for the end of the first level of kill shot. |
| 0:11.0 | Right? It's setting a warehouse after this drug deal goes wrong. |
| 0:15.0 | I designed it like one of those proper old school Western shootouts where no one survives, |
| 0:20.0 | except Player One and another guy who's still got the drugs |
| 0:22.8 | and the music is kind of like |
| 0:24.9 | it's all tense to set the mood |
| 0:28.6 | and basically you got one bullet to take the guy up |
| 0:32.2 | now if you're anything but the head or the chest the guy escapes |
| 0:36.0 | so you've got to take your shot and kill this fool Now if you're anything but the head or the chest, the guy escapes. |
| 0:41.3 | So you gotta take a shot and kill this fool. It's like this. |
| 0:45.3 | When you take your breath, then take your shot, |
| 0:49.3 | we drop one of them slow-mo sonic booms. |
| 0:55.5 | Then we followed the bullet through the air all the way through the flesh, |
| 0:58.8 | to the blood goes on the wall. |
| 1:05.9 | When Jackson saw the news, he threw up. |
| 1:09.2 | The whole place was silent. |
| 1:10.7 | All you could hear was him just, you know, everything inside of him coming out all over the floor. |
| 1:18.5 | Then Auntie Kemmy started singing. Not like it was sad. Something people were sing at a funeral. I just wanted to put in my AirPods and pretend like I weren't there |
| 1:29.3 | and I was actually at home sitting on the sofa next to mum |
| 1:32.3 | but I forgot to charge it, my AirPods |
| 1:36.3 | before I left for school so |
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