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Episode 4: The Heist

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest reads from her novel, a tale of desire, ambition and hedonism, set among south-east London's millennials today.

Harry and Leon are on their way to a big drug deal, hoping it'll be one of their last. But their usual contact is in jail, and things don't feel quite right.

Written and read by Mercury Prize-nominated Kate Tempest, who won the Ted Hughes Prize for poetry in 2013.
Producer: Justine Willett
Abridger: Julian Wilkinson. Show less

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