The Outlook Podcast Archive - My anonymous teen story became a playground sensation

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In 2005, when London schoolgirl Jade LB was just 13, she got a computer for her birthday and began writing a fictional story on it – the sometimes raunchy, sometimes disturbing adventures of a 17-year-old girl called Keisha. Written in a mixture of text language, slang and patois, the story became legendary and was passed around playgrounds all over London. But when she first put it online with a promise to post a new chapter every two weeks, Jade had no idea of the impact it would have, or how Keisha would shape her life for years to come.

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Presenter: Mobeen Azhar
Producer: Laura Thomas

(Photo: Jade LB. Credit: Stuart Simpson)

Published on Thursday, 25th November 2021.

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