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Have You Heard George's Podcast?

BBC

Drama, History, Fiction

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A quick introduction to the podcast from George the Poet.

Transcript

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0:00.0

To those of you joining us for the first time, welcome.

0:03.2

I'm George the Poet.

0:05.1

This podcast is hard to describe.

0:09.1

Basically, I'm inspired by the world around me, but the world inside me, that's where things get interesting.

0:16.4

I'm the kind of person who's perfectly happy alone with my thoughts, but sometimes I close my eyes and I see things that are way bigger than me, things that it would be selfish of me not to share.

0:30.0

In 2017 I saw the need for a deeper conversation about my community.

0:35.0

I told myself I was going to create a current affairs audio magazine

0:40.0

designed for listeners to absorb information in the most fun way possible.

0:45.0

In 2018 I linked up with this musical genius called Ben Brick and wrote the first chapter of this podcast.

0:54.0

I experimented with different styles and subjects and we ended up with an audio scrapbook of random diary entries from my actual life.

1:05.4

To be honest, I didn't know what people would think, but somehow it really connected with a lot of you. That chapter won five British

1:11.6

podcast awards and Yol we had articles all over the place.

1:15.6

We even got into the New York Times and the Financial Times and the Guardian and the Times.

1:23.0

Nah, thank you.

1:25.0

It's been amazing.

1:27.0

Earlier this year I partnered with the BBC and now it's late 2019 and we're back with

1:32.3

Chapter 2. This time's a little bit different though.

1:36.3

There are overlapping storylines, intermingling and running throughout.

1:40.6

I can't lie, I've been watching so many Disney movies with my nephews and it's kind of started

1:45.1

rubbing off but listen my story is all about what I hope to achieve and what I want to

1:50.9

see next.

1:53.0

So to fully understand it, try and listen to it in order.

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