Former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn and MC/producer Charles Bailey are releasing a collection of his speeches set to hiphop. The album, inspired by an anti-war speech given by Mr Benn at Hyde Park, is almost finished and will be released at the end of the summer.
Benn said: "We need to connect the people to the political process - otherwise democracy itself will be at risk. I have made hundreds and hundreds of speeches in my life in the House of Commons that my constituents have never heard."
Bailey said: "Tony Benn touched me with his speech about the Iraq War in Hyde Park - and I wanted to meet him and do something with him. I am trying to make politics interesting for people who don't usually vote. I want to make politics sexy - that's what I am into."
Mr Benn said: "He is a talented producer and has a good record in making videos about black people joining the police and gun crime and voting in the referendum - if it gets through to people that is what it is all about. We live in a dangerous world and if we don't talk things out we are going to be trouble."
'Tony Benn's Greatest Hits' will be available on the internet at www.politicos.co.uk in Aug.