I finally managed to get some friends round and watch the last few episodes of season one of The Wire. What a fantastic show. We showed an awful lot of self control not grabbing season two straight off the shelf and starting it immediately!
It did remind me of what I now know as episode 362 of This American Life, which had one story from The Moth radio show by Richard Price, apparently a writer of The Wire.
It’s a story about a police car which pulls over a black man taking a white child home, and one phrase, “Home boy to base. Home boy to base. We’ve got a black man down” really just suddenly grabbed me when I heard it. I’ve heard this from a recent trailer for a movie…
Now, if I can just figure out which one.
