Podcast feedWhat's On In Camden: 4th December 2017
Ed Sheeran is playing a gig at the London Irish Centre! Donate to the centre’s Christmas appeal to be in with a chance of winning; also at the Irish Centre this week is a vegan festival; There’s a carol concert TONIGHT at 6pm at St Michael’s Church in Highgate; cutting edge theatre from critically acclaimed director John Plews in Kentish Town; Kentish Town City Farm has its Christmas Festival and a fundraiser for All Dogs Matter, a charity that helps rehome dogs in need in London. Free refreshments from people who drop in during a dog walk.
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Interview with Sharon Sexton, star of 'A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary'
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 planned the revolt were executed. But knowing that might be their fate they’d already chosen someone to carry on their work: Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of their number, Thomas Clarke.
She was under strict instructions to stay home, guard the secrets, look out for the welfare of the fighters’ families and keep the flame burning.
What Kathleen endured during those days has been dramatised by Irish actress Sharon Sexton. She’s performing her one woman play “A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary” at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square from the 29th of March until the 2nd of April.
Sharon has appeared in London in The Commitments and is currently in Billy Elliott. She’s hoping to take her play around Britain and to Ireland later in the year. Sharon was keen to look at the role taken by women in the Rising, which has often been overlooked. She originally planned to follow a number of stories but as her research progressed she found there was just so much to say about Kathleen Clarke’s life that she had to focus on her. Catherine Carroll asked Sharon to describe the subject of her play.
Package by Catherine Carroll
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What's On In Camden - David Bowie special
In tribute to the passing of the great man, this week’s What’s On In Camden focuses on David Bowie related events. Bloc Bar in Camden celebrated with a David Bowie themed party on Sunday 18th; there’s Variety of Kings comedy at the Star of King’s – organiser Katie Pritchard gives us a David Bowie song; you can be a Hero just for one day by heading for Keat’s House to see the Heroes and Heroines family day; Ziggy Stardust would have understood a man like John Dee—Elizabethan physician, alchemist and mystic; Let’s Dance! at Cecil Sharp House for a ceilidh; there’s a new Starman in the sky and you can go look for him at the Hampstead Observatory every Friday and Saturday night.
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Brrring Brrring Out Your Dead
This is the story of the Soane’s family mausoleum in St. Pancras Old Church cemetery. You might think you’ve never seen this mausoleum before, but it bears an eerie resemblance to something you know and love…
Package by: Freddy Chick
Thanks to Frances Sands, Soane Museum and Gavin Stamp for their contributions.
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On Austrian Refugee, John Heu
When Angela was young she treaded the boards in the Theatre Royal at York. There she met the family of John Heu, an artist who came to England with his family as a refugee, from Vienna, just as Sigmund Freud had done. Angela talked with Matina Grebener and Marian Larragy about how the Heu family influenced her artistic development and that of other young people.
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