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**["Dread, Beat an Blood"](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cm9kz)**

Benjamin Zephaniah reassesses dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson's 1978 debut album. Dread Beat an' Blood expressed the black British experience as it had never been heard before. Using his trademark spoken word style set to an instrumental reggae beat, the record voiced the frustration of a generation. Linton discusses the issues he tackled on the record, such as police harassment, the National Front and the criminal justice system. Thirty years on, how much has changed?

People can listen to this again using the listen again feature on bbc.co.uk, going to radio, radio 4, then dread beat and blood.
Bought the lp first time round!

how many represses (on cd ) did this album have ? 5 , 6 ? I wonder why this has to be re-released again...

toucan wrote:People can listen to this again using the listen again feature on bbc.co.uk, going to radio, radio 4, then dread beat and blood.

If you click on the "link" in my original post it will take you to the correct place.

Here is that "clickable" link again - **["Dread, Beat an Blood"](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cm9kz)**

There are currently 6 days left to hear Benjamin Zephaniah reassess dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson's 1978 debut album (including Benjamin interviewing LKJ). Fascinating stuff.