The People's Pyramid
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The KLF aka The Jams aka The Timelords aka The K Foundation aka K2 Plant Hire aka The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu... it's complicated.
Whatever name or weird mythology they happened to be operating under at the time, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty managed to top the UK pop charts in the early nineties with songs about love and ice-cream vans - often with plastic horns strapped to their heads. Then they turned their backs on the music industry, deleted their entire back catalogue and cremated £1 million of their own earnings on a remote Scottish island. Scroll forward 23 years and Drummond and Cauty re-emerge to announce they're building a pyramid in Liverpool out of bricks containing the cremated remains of just under 35,000 people.
As more bricks are added to The People's Pyramid at the 2019 Toxteth Day of the Dead, Conor Garrett tries to work out what's going on...
Produced and presented by Conor Garrett.
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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. |
| 0:39.0 | It's 1994 and two pop stars are flying to a remote Scottish island. |
| 0:44.5 | Is your seat bell on Jimmy? |
| 0:45.8 | With two suitcases, each containing half a million pounds. |
| 0:49.7 | Doing that thing when you pull it around yourself and it looks like it's fastened. |
| 0:52.6 | They're about to do something really stupid. |
| 0:54.6 | Chillity is suitcases are really clever. |
| 0:57.4 | No, no, you decide. |
| 1:00.4 | This is the story of two men who burned a million pounds of their own money. |
| 1:07.0 | Why? Why would you do that? |
| 1:10.0 | How to Burn a Million Quib by Sean Grundy and Kara Jennings. |
| 1:15.0 | Download the free BBC Sounds app and subscribe or visit BBC.co. |
| 1:20.0 | UK slash sounds. |
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