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Radio WM,4 mins

From Benefits Street to Birmingham businessman

Sunday night with Nikki Tapper

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A Channel 4 documentary focusing on residents of a Birmingham street, has led to complaints about the way it portrayed people living on social security. But for one of the participants of Benefits Street, which depicted the lives of residents of James Turner Street in Winson Green, the show seems to have worked in his favour. In this extract the 91福利社's Joe Aldred and Nikki Tapper speak to Stephen Smith aka Smoggy the 50 pence man.

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