A Bonus Episode of Shadow and Light

Gun violence is often reduced to headlines, statistics, and soundbites. The Smoking Gun refuses that reduction.

In this bonus episode of Shadow and Light, host Keyari Page takes listeners on an immersive journey through the lived reality of losing someone to gun violence—not from the moment of the act, but from what follows: the knock at the door, the unanswered calls, the anger, the temptation of revenge, and the daily battle to keep living without becoming what caused the harm.

Produced by Keyari Page and Samir Graves (also known as BL A CK), the episode blends spoken word, original songs, and sound design to centre grief, memory, and restraint. It honours two loved ones who deserve justice, while acknowledging a truth many know too well: when a life is stolen, time keeps moving—and the mind struggles to keep up.

The episode culminates in a powerful mashup between Keyari’s spoken-word piece “Losing My—” and BL A CK’s original song “Losing My Mind,” merging voice, music, and memory into a single act of remembrance.

This is not a story about the killer. It is a story about the stolen.

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This holiday season, Shadow and Light offers a moment of stillness.

The Night the World Held Its Breath is a special bonus episode created for the spaces between celebration — a pause for those carrying quiet weight, complicated feelings, or nothing in particular at all. Through spoken word and restrained sound design, this episode honours the unseen work of endurance happening in ordinary rooms, late nights, and private moments that history rarely records.

This is not a holiday special about joy. It is a reminder that staying is enough.

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In this final episode of Season One, we journey through the archives of the soul, where history is not past tense but a living pulse.

"The Future Remembered" is the powerful culmination of every thread we’ve pulled this season. We explore how the echoes of past resistance—Harlem, Selma, and Gaza—are not just memories, but the very blueprint of tomorrow's light. We weave together familiar themes, examining how technology (AI, digital archives) both threatens to erase and empowers us to remember the fights for justice, from Cable Street to Standing Rock. This finale is a crescendo, a convergence of all the shadows and lights we have explored, ending in a grounded, hopeful benediction: a realisation that the future isn't something waiting to be written, but something remembering us, right now.

Join Keyari as she closes this chapter. The story does not end; it breathes, and we are its lungs.

Featured music: Eternal crossing by ScottyCBeats (1:42- 3:19)

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