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☆Unchained Voices Ep00 - 17/02/26 🌑 🗣🎙 🔉☆ Make sure you're "internet ready"!!! 😂😂😂 The brand new poscast Unchained Voices is dropping this month!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 Hosted by @lady_unchained this show aims to contribute to conversations around the Criminal Justice System in the UK as well as the lived experience of people who have been through the UK Criminal Justice System and its prisons. ​ We also want to explore the power that creative writing and music has to influence culture and potentially even the choices people make, which is a key part of Lady Unchained's mission in terms of the mentoring and workshops she conducts in prisons in the UK ... 🗓 Tuesday 17th February ● On the usual platforms you look for podcasts on + YouTube Click the link in bio on Lady Unchained's profile page and sign up to the mailing list so you don't miss this - or any other episode - from now 'till January 2027 💪🏽👊🏽❤️

It’s taken me days to understand Tuesday 7th of May. I’ll never forget it. It’s all felt like a dream, like an officer was going to roll-check me. Dreams are a sad thing to have in prison, but I am not in prison. I am Unchained, free to dream and succeed. @nprfreeflow won Gold baby at #ARIAS24 🥳🫶🏽 The instrumental show that plays the beat twice, so our listeners can get their bars right. 🤭🫶🏽🙌🏾✊🏾 our listeners are in prison. Today they will find out what happened because of their positive bars and interaction with the show. It makes sense to post today. Shout out my brothers @thereal_smiles @zakarriyahkhalil7 and my sis @juleshrowan our journeys into radio maybe crazy but we turned it around. Shout out my producer #Arthur you’ve taught me so much but your more than that your my boy 💯🫶🏽 shoutout @official_mr.jewjew all those shack studio days paid off🙌🏾 RIPClint🫶🏽 the two people that gave me my artist name. My super talented friends and team at Prison Radio we are M.A.D (Made Amazingly Different) but that’s exactly why we make great content. Thank you to @radioacademy and the judges for selecting @nprfreeflow as the Best Specialist Music Show🤭🤭🤭 it means so much to us, honestly🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽 I picked up a pen in prison and that pen continues to save me today. But not only that it’s kept me out. I prayer it shows others what I’ve screamed for years there is #LifeAfterPrison @afterprisonpod @zakarriyahkhalil7 and @juleshrowan also Gold winners tell it best. If you still reading this long ass emotional post, your a real one🤣✊🏾🙌🏾 this journey hasn’t been easy but God always has a plan💯 #FreeFlow #Unchained #Radio #Poetry #Change #LivedExperience #NeverGiveUp #TheBestIsYetToCome

I’m really deeping just how much I done last year. Like the song from @thelastpoetsnyc say’s ‘If we only knew what we could do’ if you told me all this was possible a few year back I would think your mad. I want to take this moment to thank everyone who has supported me and shared my work. To every who has sent me messages or sent them to my friends and family, thank you. I have so many top highlights from last year, but being a guest on @anniemacmanus #Changes has to be on top off that list. That doesn’t mean I the others don’t count, please don’t think I ain’t grateful, I truly am honoured for all the opportunities. I can’t wait to see what I achieve this year and who I will be working with next. #Unchained #Poetry #LifeAfterPrison #NeverGiveUp #TheBestIsYetToCome

“If I’d committed the same crime as you, I probably wouldn’t have gone to jail.” Statements like this can be uncomfortable and even cause tension, but it it an unavoidable fact that longstanding racial disparities exist across the criminal justice system. In England and Wales, Black defendants are consistently more likely to receive custodial sentences, often receiving longer sentences than white defendants convicted of the same or similar offences. A system coloured by racial prejudice so starkly evident in fundamental outcomes cannot deliver justice. Watch ep02 of Unchained Voices hosted by @lady_unchained with the incredible @zakarriyahkhalil7 <l!nk !n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

"... they downplay the darkness and the loneliness." Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 remains disarmingly real about the effect prison had on him. As host Lady Unchained - @lady_unchained - points out, so many people with lived experience really struggle to address this reality. Lady Unchained is the founder and CEO of Unchained - a CIC that delivers mentorship and workshops in prisons across the UK that leverage creative writing and poetry as the primary tool for aiding constructive and open expression - allowing people to explore how they feel, something they've often never had the opportunity to do. Watch/listen to ep02 of Unchained Voices now 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

"... if you've been through the darkness, you're the example - living proof that you can overcome it." Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 - continues to drive home the principle of personal responsibility and agency, speaking about turning your darkness into a light for others. Unchained Voices ep02. Watch/listen now 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

"... It's kinda like a shock to the system." In prison, racism isn’t something you can walk away from and when it comes from staff - the people in control - it follows you everywhere. That’s not justice, that’s damage. Watch the full episode now with guest Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 hosted by Lady Unchained - @lady_unchained 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

"Forget the system for a second ..." Radical personal responsibility and accountability is the main theme that runs through ep02 of Unchained Voices. Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 - emphasises a point several times throughout his conversation with host Lady Unchained - @lady_unchained - "what can you do?". No matter what your circumstances are, you always have agency. It's up to you to use it; for yourself, for your loved ones, for your community. Watch the full episode now on YouTube, Spotify or wherever else you find your podcasts 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

Episode 02 of Unchained Voices hosted by Lady Unchained - @lady_unchained - with our incredible guest Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 - is now live on YouTube, Spotify and wherever else you find your podcasts 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 Zakarriyah is a broadcast journalist, content creator, award-winning podcaster and co-presenter of Life After Prison podcast - @afterprisonpod - community coach and founder and CEO of XConversation - @xconversationuk - a CIC that champions individuals with Justice experience and delivers exceptional work in their field including podcasting, consultancy and training, community programmes and paid work experience 💪🏽❤️ Subscribe to the Unchained Voices mailing list to make sure you get the lates episodes before everyone else! <l!nk!n b!o>

"Think about what you can bring to the world" Our guest Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 - talks about radical responsibility on episode 02 of Unchained Voices, hosted by Lady Unchained - @lady_unchained Ultimately, the only person who has the power to change your life is you. The full episode is live now on YouTube, Spotify and wherever else you find your podcasts 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

"I went from having discussions about how we're gonna make money, on the roads, to how we gonna ... create change. And it was through those conversations that Xconversation came about." The topics of self-motivation and personal responsibility come up several times in this episode. Our guest Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 - talks about utilising the one "luxury" he feels he had in prison ... time. Check out the incredible work @xconversationuk does 💪🏽 The full episode is live now on YouTube, Spotify and wherever else you find your podcasts 🗣️🎙️🎥🔉🎧 <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals

"...then you've got a whole new black book of, of like, criminal friends..." Episode 02 of Unchained Voices hosted by Lady Unchained - @lady_unchained - with the incredible Zakarriyah Khalil - @zakarriyahkhalil7 - is now live! <l!nk!n b!o> Stay Unchained 🔗✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Studio: @premiere_podcast_studios Producer: @ciaranofathaigh Editor: @monikasamekvisuals