How to run a prison—interview with former prison officer Veronica Bird - OUTSTANDING!!
Veronica Bird spent 35 years working inside some of London’s toughest prisons. In this programme CCRadio’s Violet spoke to Veronica about the problems facing Britain’s prison system after a recent damning repor...
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In a book reviewing the life and work of Oscar Wilde, Arthur Ransome (author of Swallows and Amazons) described the persecuted writer as“a great man”. Little did he know, the book would lead to him being sued by Wilde’s lover, and shunned by society. Local filmmaker Anne Gaelan speaks about the shor...
These 4 podcasts explore the Legacy of the Endell Street Military Hospital, the only British army hospital to have been established and run by women during WW1. Opened in 1915 on the site of a former Victorian workhouse by Suffragette doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, its staff of 18...
Do you tell the truth when you talk in your sleep? Are sleep-talkers always on the verge of admitting some dark desire? Using live music, song and verbatim sleep recordings, Elephant and Castle is a gig-theatre show about the joy and terror of sharing your bed with a sleep-talker. Richard interviews...
Samantha Russell, herself a TV actor and radio presenter talks with Chris Tummings about his career in the business, including his time on‘No Problem’, and gets personal with questions on the meaning of love. Plus there’s a blast on the bamboo sax.
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Relative newcomer Richard interviews complete newcomer Rose about why she started volunteering at CCRadio and life in London as a newly arrived junior doctor.
Martin speaks to Natasha Langridge, whose show In Memory of Leaves comes to the Camden canal from the 11th-14th of October.
Written in the wake of her home on the Wornington Green Estate in Kensington being demolished, Natasha Langridge’s monologue explores what happens to communities when they a...
Sally Buchanan, a local artist living in Camden, talks about her upcoming FLUX exhibition– her biggest project to date.
The exhibition is a ground breaking and new kind of art event– a collection of the most dynamic painters, performances artists and musicians, which presents an alternative way t...
Lacky interviews Mike Daligan– a man who’s life story would make a good book. Luckily there is one!‘The Real Big Society’, Mike’s autobiography that covers how he rebuilt his life after leaving the army and a divorce and mental breakdown. Since then he’s been involved in running charities up and dow...
March is brain tumour awareness month and Nina Saini talks to Camden Community Radio about her experience of having a brain tumour from diagnosis through to treatment and life afterwards.
Nina now blogs about her experiences and about life in general. Both the Brain Tumour Charity and Brain Tumou...
Nicola Lane, artist/filmmaker, talks about her Spirit House exhibition on at the Geddes Gallery. Her childhood memories of living in Bangkok, where every property has a‘Spirit House’, are the inspiration for the show. These miniature temples are shrines to the protective spirits.
It runs from 16 ...
Leo Joseph is one of six artists from the Camden Arts Centre putting on a show in a pop-up space provided by the Camden Council. Leo came into the studio to discuss the exhibition and living as an artist in Camden.
The show, Colour Assembly, looks at visual art’s most basic building block, colour...
Leo Joseph is one of six artists from the Camden Arts Centre putting on a show in a pop-up space provided by the Camden Council. Leo came into the studio to discuss the exhibition and living as an artist in Camden.
The show, Colour Assembly, looks at visual art’s most basic building block, colour...
Mimi Romilly spoke to Violet about the disruption HS2 will cause around Euston and the lack of understanding or genuine interest HS2 Ltd. shows towards the local community. Mimi sings her‘HS2 Protest Song’ and then is joined for another rendition by Dust from Psychopathic Romantics.
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April 24th is the official one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Commemorations are already underway to mark the week hundreds of people, mostly in Dublin, rose up to fight against British rule. After six days the struggle ended in an unconditional surrender. The seven men who p...
The Etcetera Theatre’s Black Box festival is an annual celebration of the bravest and the best of new plays. One play not to miss is Banjo Man, a story about loss and the celebration of life.
Freddy Chick spoke to the author and star of the show Quina Chapman about the show.
Katie Pritchard is a stand-up comic, musical genius and creator of the Variety of Kings– a new night of comedy at the Star of Kings on York Way. It’s a night that pulls together some of the whackiest and funniest comic acts around.
Freddy Chick talked to Katie about why she started the night and ...
Larraine Revah became Mayor of Camden in May. She’s thoroughly enjoyed her busy first six months of civic duties and is looking forward to what the next half year will bring. One of the priorities of her tenure is to help raise funds for a charity called KIDS. Indeed, this month she’s hosting an ele...
Acoustic Roots is a new force on the London live music scene. Their mission is to unite artists and put live music back at the heart of the local community. They’ll be putting on nights on the first Tuesday of every month at Crouch End. Acoustic Roots is lead by Pascal and Stevie. They came in to CC...
The political profile of the Green Party has been rising sharply, not least in Camden where its Leader,
Natalie Bennett, is standing as a prospective parliamentary candidate in Holborn and St Pancras. The seat’s
been held by Labour’s Frank Dobson for more than 30 years but he’s now standing down. ...
Next year’s General Election will mark a watershed for Camden as the long serving Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, Frank Dobson, will be retiring. His party have yet to announce who will take his place as candidate, but the Conservative Party have chosen theirs. Will Blair is already busy campa...
There’s a new Labour Candidate in Town. After more than thirty years as MP for Holborn and St Pancras, Frank Dobson is standing down and the party has chosen Sir Keir Starmer to fight the seat. He’s a Barrister, specialising in Human Rights issues and was Director of Public Prosecutions for five yea...
Ten years ago Jill Fraser stood in the Holborn and St Pancras
constituency as the Lib Dem candidate. It was said she gave
Labour a bit of a scare. She’s back again with another attempt
to take the seat held for more than thirty years by Frank
Dobson, who’s retiring. She spoke to our reporter Ann...
Seb Willan came in to talk to Freddy and to play some of his tunes. As well as discussing music, they dealt with Scottish Independence and Seb’s incredible project of starting a State Circus for Hackney.
Enjoy!
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Just in time for the school holidays comes a new book for children by Camden resident, Emma Rea.“Top Dog” is set in a village in Wales where eleven year old Dylan has adventurous plans for the summer break. His heart is set on building a daring bike track with his friends but suddenly everything is ...
Jenni Lomax, longtime Director of Camden Arts Centre, talks with Denise O’Connor about the Centre, its rich history and strong reputation and the range of impressive educational programs on offer, including a pioneering project where artists and children with learning difficulties work creatively to...
Uk based Eritrean, Betti interviews Thabisa Bobo, a Public Educator in South Africa who speaks movingly about how she got involved in work against gender based violence and about the importance of that work.
8 podcasts were made as part of the International Media Training Day for women, held in L...
This week in Arts and Entertainment Darryl McKay meets well-travelled playback theatre practitioner Veronica Needa.
During the interview Veronica talks about the Chinese New Year, Chinese culture and how her work has taken her around the globe from London to Hong Kong and back again.
She also sha...