Woke: The Journey of a Word - Episode 1
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Syed traces the history of a term that's synonymous with our era of angry debate.
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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 | Hello and welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Matthew sighed and you're about to hear the first episode of my series |
| 0:49.9 | Woke, the journey of a word, in which I trace the history of a term that's now synonymous with an era of angry debate. |
| 0:59.5 | To hear the rest of the series, just search for Woke, the Journey of a Word on BBC. the |
| 1:03.3 | journey of a word on BBC sounds. |
| 1:06.0 | When I say the word, woke, what do you think of? |
| 1:11.6 | You're always politically woke and all that stuff. |
| 1:14.6 | The potential woke fury. |
| 1:16.3 | I'm Matthew sighed and I'm an author who's fascinated by the power of our thinking and how we communicate. |
| 1:27.4 | For me, Woke is the word that's become synonymous with an era of angry debate. I've been guilty of using |
| 1:35.9 | Woke myself to characterize political and social issues. The more I've seen of it, |
| 1:42.0 | the more I've come to believe that the word woke is a key that opens the door to understanding |
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