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Radio WM,4 mins

Benefits Street: Producer Kieran Smith denies bribery claims

Pete Morgan

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Kieran Smith, producer of Channel 4's Benefits Street, told Pete Morgan he is proud of the controversial show set in Birmingham and what it says about Britain. The second episode of Channel 4 programme Benefits Street revealed 14 Romanian men living in the same house on James Turner Street in Birmingham. The men said they wished they had never come to the UK. Kieran spoke to Pete Morgan about the show and answered questions over claims producers had bribed people on James Turner Street with money and food to appear on the show.

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