Black & Blue: Behind the Badge

For Michael Morrison, the police badge is his future: his ambition, his way out of poverty, his ‘American dream’. But once he puts on his uniform, the badge starts to mean something very different.

Michael takes on a new identity – but not the one he expects. Inside the force, he faces racism and violence, and on the streets he’s surrounded by hostility. Michael is stuck in the middle, between being Black and being a police officer. 

And when a routine day at work goes wrong and his career is thrown into crisis, Michael is forced to pick a side.

In this new, limited podcast series hosted by Seren Jones, Michael and others like him finally get to tell their story: a story that has made them question everything they thought they knew about justice, community, and, ultimately, what it means to be both Black and Blue.

‘Black and Blue: Behind the Badge’ won Bronze in the Factual category for the 2024 British Podcast Awards.

Credits

Host, writer, producer: Seren Jones

Executive Producers: Charlie Bell, Laurence Grissell

Script Consultant: Soraya Shockley

Managing Producer: Amica Sciortino Nowlan

Sound Recordist: Volkan Kiziltug

Original Music: Daniel Lloyd-Evans, Louis Nanke-Mannell, Toby Matimong

Sound Designer and Mix Engineering: Toby Matimong

Voice Coaching: Viki Merrick

Creative Director: Rosie Pye