Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Hi, It Could Happen Here Fans! We want to share a new show, Away Days: Reporting from the Underbelly. 

About the show: Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.  We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
In the late nineteen fifties, a cultural and artistic movement
known as kitchen sink realism formed in Britain. For many,
it was the first time seeing the harsh realities of
the downtrodden represented in creative media. Kitchen sink realism first
took form in the shape of theatre productions such as
Look Back in Anger, which is set entirely in an

(00:23):
overcrowded council flat in the East Midlands, which happens to
be where I'm from. Kitchen sink realism dramatized the underbelly
of Britain, bearing it warts and all to the nation.
At that time, artificial feel good plays about happy families
were generally the North. Meanwhile, the country was a rough,
harsh and broken place to live for the vast majority

(00:45):
of the underprivileged. Whilst the old plays offered soft escapism
for the viewer, kitchen sink realism did the opposite, kicked
the door in and aired out the dirty laundry.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is a concept close to.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
My heart and as all it's been at the back
of my mind when producing all of my own independent projects.
The problem is there's less and less of this in
today's modern media. As a response to all of this,
I've created Away Days, a new project that you could
say is kitchen sync journalism reportize from the fringes of

(01:19):
society that doesn't seek to caricature it or soften the
blow at all. I'm presenting to you real, live countercultures
without frills and judgment at its base. Away Days is
an independent video documentary series that you can watch over
the next few months at YouTube.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Dot com, slash at away Days TV. Subscribe their asap.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
We've also teamed up with cool Zone Media and iHeartRadio
to bring you this podcast version that goes deeper with
all the nerves left raw. Away Days is a pushback
against the climate of fakery.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
We're not phoning in once.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
We're actually outside making something real and at times unapologetically ugly.
This is reporting from the underbelly. We will show you
parts of the world you never knew existed. Underground no
rules fight clubs in Europe, a legal street racing in Japan,
football hooliganism in Kazakhstan, gang governments in the favelas of Brazil,

(02:22):
and much much more. We've been there and now we'll
show you it all. Listen to the Away Days podcast
reporting from the underbelly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.