The City That Stayed at Home

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

At the last general election, three of the four seats with the lowest turnout, where the lowest number of eligible people came out to vote, were in Hull.

Alex Forsyth sits down with people who stay at home on election day to find out why.

She begins in Hull East, the seat which had the lowest turnout in the UK at the last general election, visiting Marfleet, a ward with low turnout at local elections. She explores how a pattern of not voting is repeated in other parts of the city. Alex goes on to examine the complex reasons for not voting and speaks to those who believe key events in the city's history might provide part of the answer.

Presented by Alex Forsyth Produced by Camellia Sinclair for BBC Audio in Bristol Mixed by Ilse Lademann

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:40.0	Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. I'm Vanessa Kasule. This podcast finds the world's best
0:47.0	audio documentaries and puts them all in one place.
0:51.3	So just take me back first off. Did you grow up on the Preston Road Estate?
0:55.0	I have known Preston Road all my life, literally.
1:00.0	Preston Road is an estate in the east of Hull which gets talked about a lot.
1:05.0	My name is Don Grantham. I'm an ex-resident on the Preston Road District.
1:10.0	I grew up on Preston Road and then we moved off to a bigger house. When I left home, my mom and dad moved back onto Preston Road and then I moved back to basically look after my mom because she was she was ill.
1:24.4	What was it like in that time?
1:26.9	Community was good.
1:30.3	If you didn't have any potatoes you could guarantee you next door near-rad potatoes and they'd say,
1:36.0	oh, I've got some, you know? And it was a really good estate to live on.
1:41.0	Had a bad reputation.
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