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Oct 29, 2026
Simon MayoHOST
We'll be back after these wonderful messages from lots of top brands who will improve your life no end, unless you're a patron.
Simon MayoHOST
Our guest this week is Ashley Walters, actor, director, musician, who first found fame as Asher D in So Solid Crew before building a screen career spanning more than three decades from bullet boy and top boy to adolescence with A Thousand Blows in there as well.
Simon MayoHOST
Now he steps behind the camera for his feature directorial debut, Animal, as Mark said at the beginning, spelled with an O at the end.
Simon MayoHOST
It's in UK cinemas from Friday.
Tom SimonsHOST
Today's guest has had an extraordinary career spanning music, television, and now film.
Tom SimonsHOST
He first burst onto the scene as part of So Solid Crew, scoring a number one hit with 21 seconds.
Tom SimonsHOST
before becoming one of the most recognizable faces in British drama as DeShane in the award-winning series Top Boy.
Tom SimonsHOST
More recently, he starred in Netflix's Adolescence, and now he's stepping behind the camera for his feature-length directorial debut, Animal.
Ashley WaltersGUEST
Right,
Tom SimonsHOST
look, I want to talk about your incredible career.
Tom SimonsHOST
I want to talk about So Solid Crew, Top Boy, Adolescence.
Tom SimonsHOST
But first, let's go right back to the beginning.
Mo GilliganHOST
hey what's up people my name is mo gilligan and right now you're watching the beginning middle and end with me mo gilligan and what a guest i have for you lovely people today i regard this person as one of my personal superheroes that's right growing up this music group meant absolutely everything to me she talks about early success as a teen having success and going on shows like top of the pops and even winning a brit award with So Solid Crew.
Mo GilliganHOST
She's regarded as the first lady of So Solid Crew, having her own independent success and going on to do TV shows, reality shows, but she's also here to talk about her brand new book.
Mo GilliganHOST
She's got two Fs in her surname.
Mo GilliganHOST
Please welcome to the podcast, Lisa Maffia.
Lisa MaffiaGUEST
I know her.
Lisa MaffiaGUEST
Yeah.
Mo GilliganHOST
But also, one thing I was thinking as well on the way here is, like, you're the first lady of So Solid Crew.
Mo GilliganHOST
Like, even your name, Lisa Maffia.
speaker_2HOST
The
Kirsty WarkHOST
actor Ashley Walters, the former rapper with So Solid Crew and one of the stars of Top Boy and Adolescence, is making his feature directorial debut with the film Animal, written by Nick Love.
Kirsty WarkHOST
The subject matter is very familiar to Walters, who in 2002 was found guilty of a crime that threatened to derail his whole life.
Kirsty WarkHOST
When he was 20 and already a celebrity, he was sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders institution for carrying a loaded firearm, a punishment which he now says, perhaps surprisingly, was one of the best things that happened to him.
Edith BowmanHOST
Now, Ashley is one of those polymaths where he's done a bit of everything.
Edith BowmanHOST
He was in so solid crew.
Edith BowmanHOST
It took me all of my energy, not to mention 21 Seconds, which is still a tune.
Edith BowmanHOST
Because as soon as I finished the interview, I sort of ran downstairs to one of my teens going, do you know this song? And sort of proceeded to completely humiliate myself in front of him as I recited pretty much every lyric from 21 Seconds.
Edith BowmanHOST
So Ash was in So Solid Crew.
Edith BowmanHOST
He's been in so many brilliant shows.
Edith BowmanHOST
As a performer, as an actor, he started acting when he was in 10 Top Boys, maybe one of the most famous.
Jay WeathersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, yeah, just, like, following certain artists and, yeah, their ideas and songs and listening to albums and concepts.
Jay WeathersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And even, like, I remember when So Solid Crew came out and I just remember the energy of them and, like, 21 questions and just those artists having fun and seeing people that looked like me on TV.
Jay WeathersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That was like, that was quite influential.
Jay WeathersSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That was like inspiring.
Ashley WaltersGUEST
Do you
Lennie WareHOST
think they were making an example of you because you're in so solid crew to send you to prison?
Ashley WaltersGUEST
I'm sure.
Ashley WaltersGUEST
I'm sure I was tried by media.
Elliot SteelHOST
It's got Claire Benedict.
Elliot SteelHOST
Lisa Mafia, member of So Solid Crew.
Elliot SteelHOST
That's pretty good.
Elliot SteelHOST
And let's see, Chelsea O'Mahoney.
BenHOST
I love that feeling that it's going somewhere.
EdHOST
It felt a bit, you're going to hate this probably, but a bit like So Solid Crew.
BenHOST
Yeah, no, that's okay.
BenHOST
In the way it's kind
Gary US BombsHOST
Good for her.
Jake RazorHOST
Uh, and her cousin is Ashley Walters, who was an actor on Top Boy and was in So Solid Crew, the UK garage group.
Gary US BombsHOST
So she had connections, clearly.
Tyler HammerHOST
Kind of, I guess.
Jake RazorHOST
So like may- maybe some connections, but not...
Jake RazorHOST
I mean, Ashley Walters, her cousin, it's...
Jake RazorHOST
I don't know, he was like in prison and shit before he was in So Solid Crew or anything.
Gary US BombsHOST
Oh, that's a man.
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