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 5. It’s almost dawn and it looks like the hostages are going to be released, but events are out of control and nobody is prepared for what happens next.
CAST NAOMI - Danielle Vitalis JACKSON - Kwabena Ansah KEMI - Layo-Christina Akinlude PENNY - Jasmine Hyde MAGGIE - Stacey Abalogun DEREK - Ewan Bailey
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. |
| 0:11.5 | Could open that window, please, so yeah, thanks. |
| 0:17.0 | No, I'm fine. |
| 0:19.6 | Yeah, we can keep going. |
| 0:23.1 | It was Derek this time. |
| 0:25.7 | I weren't expecting it to be him, to be honest, |
| 0:27.9 | because not that he didn't deserve to get out. |
| 0:31.5 | Well, he did. |
| 0:32.5 | We all did, obviously. |
| 0:35.1 | But he was still the security guard, |
| 0:36.7 | shouldn't he get out last? |
| 0:39.1 | He never really tried guarding any of us, to be honest. I think it's because he was old |
| 0:45.7 | and that way past his retirement age. But anyways, Derek went out the front way, the front entrance. |
| 0:53.3 | I remember the doors opened and he looked back. |
| 0:56.6 | Not us though, a call, like he wanted to say something. But he never did. |
| 1:06.1 | We were way, way back by the pastries. A car wasn't going to risk us being anywhere near the drop-off in case the police tried something again. The senses picked up the guy and the front doors opened. The guy had a big black duffel bag over his shoulder. He was a big dude, but it still looked heavy. He had his one hand free in the air. He knew the drill. Carl didn't even tell him to do that he got to his knees |
| 1:28.9 | and set it down then car told him to open it up i heard him zip it open but kemmy got in my way |
| 1:34.8 | you know we were all just trying to get a look in i mean who the heck knows what does that kind of |
| 1:40.3 | money look like well i tell you it like money, just a lot of it. |
| 1:45.0 | The dude got up and put both hands in the air and started to back out slowly. |
| 1:50.0 | I thought, flipping neck, boy, that was easy. |
| 1:53.0 | I could tell Carl was thinking the same thing too, like, it was too easy. |
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