Summary
Is the use of the ‘P’ word ever acceptable? Prompted by the recent allegations of racism at Yorkshire CCC by cricketer Azeem Rafiq, Rajan Datar and producer Rajeev Gupta go on a journey of personal exploration. Like many South Asians in the 1970s and 80s, Rajan was routinely called the P-word as he walked to and from school, but a new generation of young British Asians say they now claim the word and it can be used within the community as a sign of power. Rajan finds out for himself how true this is and does a context in which the use of the word is acceptable actually exist?
Produced by: Rajeev Gupta
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, you're listening to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. |
| 0:46.0 | This podcast finds the world's best audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. |
| 0:52.0 | There's some strong discriminatory language in one place. |
| 0:52.5 | There's some strong discriminatory language |
| 0:54.5 | in this gripping, powerful, and seriously |
| 0:57.2 | fascinating episode. |
| 1:00.0 | Here we are, in the pleasant, even genteel suburb of Hampton in southwest London. |
| 1:07.0 | Now it seems lovely and calm and pleasant and nice and friendly. |
| 1:13.1 | But back in the 70s, for me, |
| 1:16.0 | just walking through these roads |
| 1:18.3 | was like an ordeal. |
| 1:19.8 | It was like going through a danger zone. |
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