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Hello and welcome to Unfiltered with me James O'Brien.

Actually it isn't, it's producer rich here.

James has been off bevering away his new book.

He's finished it so normal service will resume shortly,

but for this week we're doing something a little bit different.

We've had a lot of new listeners join the show recently, and we're very glad to have you, so we thought

we'd take this opportunity to shine a light on some of our previous episodes, particularly ones featuring people who perhaps aren't household

names, but nevertheless have fascinating stories to tell.

Now if you sat at home thinking, hang on a minute, this is just the best of, yeah, it is.

Yeah, you've rumbled us. But the stories you're about to hear cover some important

ground from trans rights to poverty, race, diversity, and FGM. That sounds a bit heavy, but

don't worry, we'll try and squeeze a few laughs in there as well.

So let's kick off with a bit of scrubius Pip. Pipp is a rapper, a poet, and a host of the brilliant

distraction pieces podcast. He's a raconteur, a Renaissance man, and a bloody nice bloke on top of it all.

Here he is talking to James in episode 20 of Unfiltered back in February 2018.

What sort of kid were you?

Um, I was...

I was quite a shy kid at the age of four I almost drowned and that caused me to have a

stutter so I was a shy kid almost by default and sometimes a funny kid as defense as well

because it's that kind of it's that weird thing of like if you start a new

school the first thing that everyone's nervous and scared and wants to find

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