Podcast feedHumans of Camden, No 6
Humans of Camden’ is a podcast series for Camden Community Radio inspired by the photography project, ‘Humans of New York’. In it, Bonny walks around different parts of Camden asking passersby to talk to her for 5 minutes. The aim is to capture a cross-section of street life in this diverse and eclectic borough of London.
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Was Trump Inspired by the Kindertransport?
Is it ever okay to separate a child from their parents? Fingers Crossed Theatre Company explore the effect of separation and immigration on a person’s identity, in their devised play ‘Central (Story) Line’. Three Jewish children arrive in London on the Kindertransport, fleeing from the Nazis. They find themselves at Liverpool Street Station – with no one there to pick them up. This show combines pop culture (Elvis, The Doors, Abba, Britney) with political speeches to explore how these children develop through the decades. How does it feel to be an immigrant in a fast-changing world, and what effect does that initial separation have? Touching on universal topics from love, to loss, to fitting in, this show combines humour with poignance and some classic songs – oh, and it’s also entirely set on the tube!
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My Mother - the Camden Town poet - and the King's Cross bomb
Mimi Romilly talks about her mother, Irene Romilly, an iconic figure in Camden and an original poetic voice. She reads from two of her mother’s works – one a poem and one an excerpt from her mother’s memories of the King’s Cross bomb in 1940. At the end, Mimi performs her own song – Oh daddy, daddy – as she carries the flame her mother gave her.
Package by: Violet Macdonald and Mimi Romilly
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King's Cross Pond facing closure
Amid a sea of cranes, machinery and building noise, and a just a short walk from the railway station, lies the oasis that is Kings Cross Pond. Since it opened the pond has attracted attention from local and international swimmers, has provided a backdrop for numerous Instagram pictures and social media posts and has even been featured in a campaign by the Mayor of London.
Developers recently announced that on the 26th of October the pond will close. Charlotte Riley met with two local swimmers Ben Williams and Barbara Rich to talk about the potential loss of their beloved pond.
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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.
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