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Stormzy joins Jo live in studio for a special co-host from 20:00 to 21:00.

Jo will play her favourite tracks from Stormzy鈥檚 new album 鈥淭his Is What I Mean鈥�, the grime superstar will choose tracks that have influenced him from childhood to now, plus Jo has a few surprises up her sleeve. Also throughout the hour the pair will be chatting about Stormzy鈥檚 music, his career and the major influences on his latest work.

Stormzy stands not only as one of Britain鈥檚 most accomplished rappers, but one of its most accomplished musicians of any genre and a cultural icon.

The confidence which drove his new album stemmed from a deeper and far more spiritual place than we have seen from Stormzy previously. For all the success and awards that he has accrued during his brief, meteoric career, the lockdown that ensued from the coronavirus pandemic gave him one commodity he鈥檇 long lacked: time. And thanks to his sense of accomplishment following Glastonbury he was, for the first time, in a position to make the most of it.

Much of the creative energy that shaped the album emerged from a Stormzy music camp in Osea Island 鈥� a remote island in the Essex estuary that鈥檚 only accessible via a Roman Causeway for four hours a day at low tide. Surrounded by leading-edge producers and musicians (who will all be unveiled in due course), each and every morning they would eat and pray together and then spend the rest of the time driven to creative heights by each other's talents.

鈥淲hen you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre鈥� says Stormzy.

鈥淧eople saying: 鈥淲e need to make an album.鈥� 鈥淲e need to make some hit records.鈥� But this felt beautifully free. We鈥檙e all musicians but we weren鈥檛 always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the bi-product to that was very beautiful music. Because when you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the best producers, writers and artists in the world, and we鈥檙e in one space, that鈥檚 a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can鈥檛 even calculate what that鈥檚 going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album鈥�