This chapter explores how the ability to create rhymes became a useful skill in school, leading to a playground game called Kiss Chase. The hosts share their strategy of writing poems for the girls they caught, which eventually gets them into trouble during a football game.
The poet, writer and activist Benjamin Zephaniah sadly passed away this week, aged 65. In this archive discussion from 2019, journalist Samira Ahmed speaks with Zephaniah about his life's work and the journey that took him from his youth in Birmingham to becoming one of the UK's most distinct and relevant voices harnessing the power of poetry and the spoken word.
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