Eavesdrop Franklyn Addo

While on a late shift at work, Franklyn attempts to make use of an uncharacteristically quiet office to make a long overdue catch-up phone call to Caleb Femi, the celebrated poet and former Young people's Laureate for London. The conversation revolves mainly around Franklyn’s and Caleb’s respective biographical experiences of youth violence and how they seek to explore such social phenomena in their music and poetry. Between incisive critiques of how the media irresponsibly sensationalise the issue of youth violence, reflective allusions towards solutions to the problem, and the consideration of important nuances in questions such as when aggression might be legitimate, there are meandering asides about music by artists such as Swiss and Dizzee Rascal, political context like Brexit, philosophy and religion. Poignantly, and in sinister irony, the discussion is at times interrupted by Franklyn receiving phone calls from colleagues to be made aware of violently injured young people with whom he’d be seeking to engage.