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George the Poet

Spoken word performer and rapper George the Poet joins Mary Anne Hobbs to talk about being educated through music.

It's exam season! Spoken word performer and rapper, George the Poet, is on the show to talk about being educated through music, and the importance of learning both in and out of the classroom.

George Mpanga has been rapping since the age of 15. While studying politics, psychology and sociology at Cambridge University he used his skills as a writer to run poetry workshops for children in London.

He released his debut album 'The Chicken and the Egg' through Island Records in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Critics' Choice category at the 2015 Brit Awards the same year. Praised for using his voice as a force for change in society, he then came fifth in the 麻豆社's Sound of 2015 poll, an award which showcases emerging artists.

As well as ensuring you all go away super-inspired by George, we'll also be filling your brains with interesting, enlivening tunes. Feel free to take your revision break from 7-10am today ...

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Last on

Sat 2 May 2015 07:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Ben E. King

    Supernatural Thing

    • Atlantic.

  • Public Service Broadcasting

    GO!

    • Test Card Recordings.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    America

    • Columbia.

  • Sharon Van Etten

    Give Out

  • Pinkshinyultrablast

    Umi

    • Club AC30.

  • Talking Heads

    This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

    • EMI.

  • 脫lafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott

    Letters of a Traveller

    • The Chopin Project.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Tricky

    Black Steel

    • Indolent.

  • Jamie xx

    Loud Places (feat. Romy)

    • Young Turks.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Badlands

    • CBS.

  • Roots Manuva

    Facety 2:11

    • Big Dada Recordings.

  • Caribou

    Sun

    • City Slang.

  • Sunriser

    • Kamasi Washington

      Change Of The Guard

      • Brainfeeder.

  • Nirvana

    Breed

    • DGC Records.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    Sometimes I Feel So Deserted

    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • De La Soul & Nas

    God It

    • Notgiven.

  • Wiley

    Can You Hear Me (Ayayaya)

  • Bob Dylan

    Rainy Day Women #12 And 35

    • Columbia.

  • Frameworks

    Calm The Still Night

    • Tides.
    • First Word Records.

  • Father John Misty

    True Affection

    • Bella Union Records.

  • The Beach Boys

    Don't Worry Baby

    • Capitol.

  • Rozi Plain

    Actually - Marc Riley Session 270415

  • This Is the Kit

    Vitamins

  • The National

    Demons

  • Ezra Furman

    Restless Year

    • Bella Union Records.

  • Vampire Weekend

    Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

    • CD SINGLE.
    • XL.
    • 1.

  • Hot Chip

    Need You Now

    • Domino Recording Co.

  • Roxy Music

    Editions Of You

    • EG.

  • George the Poet

    YOLO (feat. Emmanuel Stanleys)

  • 3 Minute Epiphany

    George the Poet: Should Music Be Educational?

  • George the Poet

    My Love Is Your Love (麻豆社 Session 02/05/13)

  • The Beatles

    Tomorrow Never Knows

    • Parlophone.

  • Paul Weller

    Saturns Pattern

    • Parlophone.

  • Kate Bush

    Babooshka

    • EMI.

  • Songhoy Blues

    Soubour

    • Transgressive Records.

  • Kae Tempest

    The Beigeness

    • Everybody Down.
    • Big Dada.
    • 001.

  • Brian Jackson & Gil Scott鈥怘eron

    The Bottle

    • Virgin.

  • The Vaccines

    Dream Lover

    • Columbia Records.

  • The Concretes

    You Can't Hurry Love

    • Licking Fingers.

  • Kendrick Lamar

    Institutionalized (feat. Snoop Dogg & Bilal)

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 May 2015 07:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music