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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In this episode, we step beyond the veil of perception and into the heart of misunderstood faith.

The Sacred Misunderstanding explores the deep roots of African spiritual traditions — practices of healing, reverence, and connection that predate colonisation and Western religion. What was once sacred became feared, renamed, and rewritten under the weight of Christianity popularity. But these traditions never truly vanished; they adapted, whispered through time, and lived on in the rituals, rhythms, and resilience of the African diaspora.

Featured music: Sunday Morning Chant by FreeSound (4.36-6.33) Prayer Hands by Wizard beats (6.34-8.12) Boom by Dyalla (12.07-end)

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The Town Beneath takes us below the surface of a quiet Midwestern town — a place built on sacred ground, shadowed by history, and haunted by what it chose to forget. Through stories of power, loss, and reckoning, we unearth the truth behind the ghost tours and myths that softened the past.

In this special Halloween episode, we blend poetry, archival echoes, and immersive sound design to explore how one city’s buried history reveals the light — and the cost — of remembering.

Featuring reflections on the life and lynching of Samuel J. Bush (1893), the legacy of the Power House, and the enduring question: can a town ever outgrow its own ghosts?

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The Street That Spoke takes us back to East London, 1936, when ordinary people stood together at the Battle of Cable Street to stop the march of hate. Nearly a century later, the echoes return in today’s far-right rhetoric that test the strength of our streets and our solidarity.

In this episode, we explore how communities can hold the line when hate threatens to march once more.

Featuring a clip from The Political Dispatch Podcast with Tom Spare, reflecting on Reform UK’s protest on September 13, 2025, to begin reflecting on the power of The Battle of Cable Street. (00:00:09- 00:01:55)

Closing music: “The Vatican” by Ascent. (00:08:30-00:09:33)

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A tribute to the lives of Henrietta Lacks, the children of Willowbrook, the people of Guatemala, and the men of Holmesburg Prison, whose bodies were used for medical advancements without consent and sacrifice. This episode honours their testimony and demands that memory speak where history was silenced.

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We are entering the many war zones of Palestinian poetry, tracing its power from the catastrophe of the Nakba in 1948 to the ongoing struggle today. This episode showcases the powerful words of poets like Fadwa Tuqan and Samih al-Qasim, whose verses defy suppression. And how the ongoing struggle has never faded away, but Palestine will rise from the rubble.

Song: Palestine Will Rise · Abe Batshon · Samer · Sammy Shiblaq

Palestine Will Rise

℗ 2024 Emerge Records

Released on: 2024-02-02

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