Podcast feedInterview with Will Blair: Parliamentary candidate for the Conservative Party in Holborn and St Pancras
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 campaigning while holding down a full time job. He took time out of his schedule to come into our studio and talked to Ann Carroll about his fondness for Camden, his background, handling social media and the threat from Ukip. She began by asking him why he was standing.
The full list of candidates is:
Natalie Bennett, Green Party
Will Blair, Conservative Party
Jill Fraser, Liberal Democrat Party
Vanessa Helen Hudson, Animal Welfare Party
Shane O’Donnell, Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol
David O’Sullivan, Socialist Equality Party
Maxine Spencer, UK Independence Party
Keir Starmer, Labour Party
Package by: Ann Carroll
- Keir Starmer talks to Ann Carroll
- Labour Party Candidate
- Jill Fraser talks to Ann Carroll
- Liberal Democrat Candidate
- Natalie Bennett talks to Ann Carroll
- Green Party Candidate
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Irene McGarvey's May Music Podcast
Irene McGarvey is back with her selection of top tracks for May 2014
They are:
Lux Lisbon : Get Some Scars
The Agency: Child so Careless
Sean Taylor : Save me and The Road
The House of Lions: Uncruel
Basheba : No More
Package by: Irene McGarvey
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What's on in Camden from 7th December 2013
Family Barn Dance on Sunday at Cecil Sharp House; Ukulele Cabaret in the Lincoln Lounge in Kings Cross; Kentish Town Pop Up Vintage Market is on Saturday 14th December at The Grafton Pub on Prince of Wales Road and the Monkey; Fourth Monkey Experimental Fringe 2013.
Script by: Sarah O’Brien
Read by: Freddy Chick & Marian Larragy
Edited by: Freddy Chick
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Amy's 30! Amy Winehouse Foundation Celebrates in Style
The Amy Winehouse Foundation is celebrating what would have been Amy’s 30th Birthday with a festival in Camden. From 26th – 30th September, there will be a pop up shop at 69 Camden High Street selling donated goods and limited editions of new Amy Winehouse merchandise. Blues Kitchen and The Jazz Cafe have been holding events, Gilgamesh hosts ‘Friday I’m in Love Birthday Singalong, tonight. There will be cabaret and music in venues such as the Black Cap and the Jewish Museum. Camden Community Radio’s Dearbhla Coffey has been talking Rowan Carnihan to find out about more about the Festival and about the Foundation and the work that it does for young people. more info from #Amys30 and the links below.
Package by: Dearbhla Coffey
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Women Media Professionals from around the world
Nine podcasts were made as part of the International Media Training Day for women, held in London on 25th & 26th April 2012 – organised by Frauen Solidaritaet and Central American Women’s Network, with Camden Community Radio.
Here 3 women media professionals talk about their work. Hazel Dewan from Puntos De Encuentro, in Nicaragua tells of a TV soap that marries comedy and love themes with tackling underlying social problems among young people. Spanish with English interpretation.
Beatrice from Spain explains the work of Young Women Rights (FMJ) to challenge gender based violence among teenage couples and a film they have made to raise issues
Pria from Jeeran talks about a film project to raise awareness on the taboo subject in the Asian community of preference for boys over girls, which leads, among other things to elective abortion of female pregnancies.
There are links to each of the other podcasts, links related to this podcast and links related to the training programme organisers.
- Rani on Jeena International
- Nbecco & Joanna
- Helga and Ishrat
- Yula Burin on the Feminist Library
- Rani Bilkhu, founder of Jeena International talks with Lisa Giessauf
- Betti interviews Thabisa Bobo, a Public Educator in South Africa
- Violence Against Women in Latin America
- Against criminalisation of emergency contraception in Honduras
- Puntos De Encuentro
- Jeena International
- Central American Womens Network
- Frauen Solidaritaet
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