Podcast feedCanals, boatmen and life on the water
Camden’s canals are peaceful places to withdraw from the city, but they’re also home to a vibrant boating community. Cale recently strolled from Camden Lock to Lisson Grove. Along the way, he spoke with three boatmen – Toby, Nick and Dave – about what they love about being on the water.
Package by: Cale Hubble
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Refusing to Implode Politely- Felix
Spoken Word Slam Poet Felix, who wraps words beautifully around the weird, the wonderful and the ordinary, talks with Zoe Stegosaurus about performance, about what its like identify as a poet, other poets he appreciates or is influenced by and the role of publishing versus performance
Felix’s performs:
If the Sky Were Orange
Ultimate Compression Tri-top Chestbinder Size Medium – A Love Story
An Apology to His Best Friend
To The People Who Count
Package by: Zoe Stegosaurus
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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 - 8th November
The Hampstead Festival is coming to an end, catch it before it’s done; take up wildlife photography or join a bird watching group; release your inner child by playing old-school kids games at the WAC; join the Mayor Larraine Revah for her afternoon tea at the Renaissance Hotel at King’s Cross in order to raise money for a chosen charity KIDS.
Package by:
Angela Routley, Teresa, Athos Harber, Joseph Hughes and Freddy Chick
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Angela Inglis KX on Stanley and Culross Buildings
Stanley Buildings and Culross Buildings were part of nineteenth century architectural heritage at the rear of King’s Cross station. Angela Inglis wrote about them when it became clear that they would be sacrificed to ‘regeneration’. The retained segment of Stanley building sits next tot he German Gym, opposite the entrance to St Pancras Station at Pancras Road.
Poetry & Reading: Angela Inglis
Introduction: Marian Larragy
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