Introducing: Away Days Podcast

Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.  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

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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

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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. This
is a concept close to my heart and as all
it's been at the back of my mind. We're producing
all of my own independent projects. The problem is there's

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less and less of this in today's more than 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 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

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its base. Away Days is an independent video documentary series
that you can watch over the next few months at
YouTube dot com, slash at away Days TV subscribe their asap.
We've also teamed up with cool Zone Media and iHeartRadio
to bring you this podcast version that goes deeper with

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all the nerves left raw. Away Days is a pushback
against the climate of fakery. We're not phoning in once.
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

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rules fight clubs in Europe, a legal street racing in Japan,
football hooliganism in Kazakhstan, gang governments in the favelas of Brazil,
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,

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or wherever you get your podcasts.