How Much Can You Say?

'The north London heroin trade is almost folklore at this stage.'

For decades, calculated gang warfare involving Turkish, Turkish Cypriot, and Kurdish heroin dealers has played out on the streets of north London, in the midst of dry cleaners, empty market stalls, and oddly abundant carpet shops. In this intimate documentary, we hear the careful accounts of women and young people on the edges of that world.

'It is a life-or-death situation to say the wrong thing.'

Featuring creative direction and original poetry from Tice Cin, an award-winning interdisciplinary artist from Tottenham and Enfield.

'The best way to put it is if you look at the Turkish word ‘suskunluk' ... It's the honour thing, you can't be bad-mouthing your own community.'

Presented by Tice Cin

Produced by Jude Shapiro with Tice Cin

Executive Producer: Jack Howson

Mixed by Arlie Adlington - including music composed by Tice Cin with Oscar Deniz Kemanci

A Peanut & Crumb production for BBC Radio 4

(Programme Image by Peri Cimen & Tice Cin; © Neoprene Genie)

For decades, gang warfare involving Turkish, Turkish Cypriot, and Kurdish heroin dealers has played out on north London's streets. We hear from women on the edge of that world.

'There are so many boundaries of what can and can't be said, and it is a life-or-death situation to say the wrong thing.'

Executive Producewr: Jack Howson