John Robins
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2,358 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Jul
John Robins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And were you writing more in prison than you had done in the months leading up to going in?
So the...
The result, so creatively, the result is the mad art of doing time, but also Radio 4 documentary called The Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag.
And it's an incredible piece of work.
It's not like a documentary in the sense that you sort of imagine in your head, but it is a conversation between you and a producer, you and the alcohol tag,
The alcohol tag and you.
And you use poetry interspersed in that story to sort of bring us into the world of that.
Let's talk about the alcohol tag because I think it's really interesting.
You talk about it in terms of like a mother's bond with a baby, sort of becoming part of the same organism in a sense.
So could you let us know how the alcohol tag came about and your psychological relationship with it?
Don't swallow your mouthwash.
In your poetry, you give the ankle tag a voice and it reflects on its history and its relationship with you and former wearers of the tag.
And I wondered...
Like if you could, I just had this idea of being able for the wearers of the tag to record messages that the tag would play to the next wearer.
If you could record something to go on that tag.
that the next person would play, say in their hour of need or when they put it on or when they were tempted by a drink, what would it say to them if that tag did have a voice?
What was it like when you took the tag off?
So how long have you been sober now?
Wow, fuck, I didn't realise it was that long ago.
Yeah, two and a half years.
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