Sticks and Stones

First Broadcast:

One-time So Solid Crew rapper Asher D (aka Ashley Walters) explores how and why racially offensive language has become such an ingrained part of our lives. Is just colloquial evolution or does it actually create racist subculture.

The programme follows Ashley as he travels across the UK testing the appetite for these troubling definitions and meeting people that oppose and support his take on how language should be used.

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