Georgia Banjo
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398 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 12 Sep
Georgia Banjo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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From the 1970s onwards, like much of industrial England, Luton entered a period of slow and steady decline.
The fallout in part inspired Aslam Khan to get into local politics.
The hat making disappeared.
And Vauxhall, the car factory, it massively cut back production in 2002, and thousands of jobs were lost.
This is the other story of Leyton.
About a town that sits at the intersection of major transport routes.
Poverty, for the south of England anyway, and a growing web of organized crime.
A place where immigrants were marooned when the economic tide went out.
leaving many stranded and jobless.
Catherine Holloway was Bedfordshire's police and crime commissioner in the mid twenty tens.
and lived in the area while all of this was happening.
She shares Peter's positive view of multicultural Leuton.
But she also saw it through the lens of criminality.
She had direct contact with Robinson's Luton.
Robinson was born in nineteen eighty two to an Irish immigrant mother.
His real name's Stephen Yaxley Lennon, and he grew up with his mum and his stepdad, a Scottish pipe fitter who worked at the Vauxhall car plant for a time, on the Farley Hill estate.
Then the town's biggest working class area.
It's where Peter first lived when he moved to Leyton in two thousand and seven.
Luton is also where the Tate brothers are from.
Their estate, think brutalis concrete high rises, was the scene of ugly riots in the nineties.
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