ODDS & SODS: Recent Episodes
Lil Warren
Writer/Director/Historian Lil Warren and Sound Designer Yvonne Gilbert (both from the East End) create podcasts that include drama, documentaries and soundscapes in addition to interviews and chats with people from backgrounds as diverse as Opera singers, ex-offenders, models, fighters, plumbers, activists and boaters.
The Stronger by August Strindberg was first performed in London in 1924.
The story, based on Strindberg's life and, not surprisingly, his wife and marriage, focuses on one Madame confronting another.
This audio version was made to mark the 100th Anniversary of the first drama aired by the BBC on 15 January 1924.
Directed by Jayne McVeigh
Produced by Angus Chisholm
Mme X played by Sarah J Warren
Mme Y played by Jayne McVeigh
Made with the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
This fabulously interesting and wide ranging episode is with Coventry-born (and one of the few women in the UK who is a fully qualified Helmsman) Lindsey Hood.
We recorded, on location, on the Grand Union Canal as guests on board Lindsey's narrowboat, Seresha. We hear how the life of a boater "happened" and interesting tales of living and working on the water.
An eclectic chat about rock n roll, growing up in the city of Two-Tone, bringing up a child on a narrowboat, life as a Continuous Cruiser and the move to being a skipper. Lindsey also tells us about her Scottish and Northern ancestry, her Great-grandfather's Music Hall career (as Felix Burns) and her Grandfather's life as a violinist and how her family ended up in Coventry.
To find out more about how to get an experience day on a boat in and around London contact the RYA
https://nbsc.org.uk/experience-day?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvJGcttnH8gIVBuR3Ch1VVwSjEAAYASACEgIVtvD_BwE
Lindsey Hood can also be found on Facebook.
Grace Hammonds is Hoxton born and bred and is the Participation Manager at Hoxton Hall, in Hoxton Street, London. She graduated from the BRIT school and went straight into working in theatre arts. A Londoner giving LOADS back to her community.
Here Lil meets Grace on location in Hoxton Hall to talk about the joy of Disco, the pros and cons of gentrification, the importance of the arts as a participatory activity not just as a consumer or deliverer, the inherent enjoyment of hanging out in a safe place, making stuff up and sharing with your family and friends.
You can find out more about Hoxton Hall here
https://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/
History of Hoxton Hall here
https://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/about/history/
Panto Info here
https://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/event/sleeping-beauty/
Twitter @HoxtonHall
Facebook @HoxtonHallTheatre
Insta hoxtonhall
Satema is a second-generation, British Sierra Leonean South Londoner. Since graduating from her multimedia journalism degree Satema has gone from presenting and producing on one of London's biggest community youth stations, Reprezent radio, to forging a successful career as an Assistant Producer on a number of critically acclaimed one-off documentaries.
Here Lil and Satema talk about the importance of education to break down class barriers, the difference in Carnivals worldwide, and the road to JOY!
Satema has used those researching, casting and organising skills she gained in the factual television industry to produce the play Ethan’s Bell for Sassy Jam, as well as co-creating and the web series phase two, where she also had a hand in writing episodes.
Always looking to expand and learn creatively, Satema has also produced and co-hosted podcast 2 Shades of Brownalongside award winning podcaster Rubina Pabani.
She’s a keen cook and runs a family owned catering company and occasional pop up restaurant Theresa’s kitchen named after her mother the menu is Sierra Leonean, west African and pan African cuisine made up of the favourite recipes from the family kitchen.
@satemama for on everything for everything Satema
Listen: @2shadesofbrown
Watch: @sassyjamproductions
Taste: @theresas_kitchen
Amii Griffith is Development Producer with Free At Last TV and currently Script Associate on the hit series AGATHA RAISIN (based on the books by MC Beaton and starring Ashley Jensen). As a writer and producer she also creates for Film & Theatre.
Amii chats to Lil from on location in the Cotswolds. They blether about South East London, where Amii was born and still lives, how being a little sis you just have to take what line you are given, that going to University is not the be all and end all and why she supports Arsenal!
For more info about Amii visit her website
http://www.amiigriffith.com/
For more info about the Agatha Raisin series visit Free At Last TV
https://www.freeatlasttv.co.uk
For more info on Erin Dorgs find her on Twitter @erindorgs
Darren McStay is the consummate "slash artist". An UBER-Polymath.
An Actor/Musician/Singer-Songwriter/Director/Filmmaker/Voice Artist and Specialist Teacher/Public Speaker/Blogger/Podcaster.
Here we chat all things music from C & W to the Thriller album, the short days in Finland, how to relax when speaking, how being a practitioner of many forms feeds them all, when its good to just hang round the pool table and the brilliance of Eddie Murphy.
Find out more about Darren here.
Website www.darrenmcstay.com
Spotlight www.spotlight.com/3333-5619-6633
YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/MrDCACTOR
A lovely mixed bag of a chat with Voice artist, character actor and model, Peter Revel-Walsh. Here Lil and Peter discuss beard envy, the intricacies of voice acting, Hank Marvin, how important green spaces are and sourdough. We also discover there IS a road called the A666!!!
Here is where to find out more about Peter.
www.peterrevelwalsh.com
Spotlight 5816-4505-4980
Instagram @PeterRevelWalsh
Twitter @PeterRevelWalsh
Katy Baker is a an actor, singer writer, director, cabaret performer and founder of the infamous Four Femmes on the Thames (recipients of the Musical Comedy Awards) and currently working with her new musical comedy band called Flat & the Curves.
Lil and Katy talk here about the advantages of spending a lot of time with your nan, love of jazz, the deficit of art and music in schools and the love of small dogs who think they are big dogs!
Flat & The Curves next performances at
Phoenix Arts Club 30 May at 7.30pm
Tickets available here:
https://bit.ly/3sOWSIP
Stanley Arts Centre 25 June at 7.00 pm.
Tickets available here:
https://bit.ly/3v4oXgS
Find our more about Katy here:
https://www.katybakeractress.co.uk/
This audio documentary about Bluestockings leader ELIZABETH MONTAGU was written and directed by Lil Warren with Sound Design by Yvonne Gilbert.
Based on the correspondence of the glittering salonniere who was a prolific and witty letter writer. Part of the NLHF project BLUE CIRCLE OF DISSENT.
ELIZABETH MONTAGU Zara Hadashian Banks
HANNAH MORE Priscilla Olympio
NARRATOR Sarah J Warren
An online exhibition of the same name is available here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvhgNHKeiY
We are so fortunate to have Emmanuel on as a guest. He generously made time to speak to us from his home in Mount Pleasant. He is a filmmaker, writer, director and journalist and founder of BUFF (British Urban Film Festival). During this episode we discover shared fond memories of 70s TV, nerdy fonts love, Gary Oldman's Nil by Mouth, Judas and The Black Messiah and 80s Soul plus chat about the success of the Clare Anyiam-Osigwe film No Shade and updates on BUFF now being available on Apple TV!
The website: www.britishurbanfilmfestival.co.uk
Twitter: @buffconnects
Instagram: @buffconnects
This audio adaptation, by Lil Warren, stars the cast from the, OFFIE commended and SOLD OUT promenade theatre production of HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES performed at Abney Park. (**** “atmospheric and hugely entertaining”) The company rehearsed and recorded this performance all in their own homes during lockdown. Ambient (socially distanced) recordings taken at dawn and dusk in Abney Park have also been woven into the Sound Design by Yvonne Gilbert.
Dan de la Motte is a writer, performer, historian, curator and creator. He is also on the Equity committee for Variety, Circus and Entertainers. Lil and Dan chat about being working class artistes, Queer Activism, his Auntie's Elvis impersonations and of course all things London, Polari and Mum Rock.
More about Dan:
Twitter @Dandelamotte
Insta dandelamotte
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DandelaMotte
15 May Hosting the Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention at Bishopsgate Institute,
20 - 29 May curating FRIENDSHIP CIRCLES at Platform Southwark. Events include:
25 May CELEBRATING GAY'S THE WORD
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/5939/celebrating-gays-the-word-bookshop
26 May CELEBRATING PETER TATCHELL
https://www.outsavvy.com/event/5945/celebrating-peter-tatchell
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24 May - 13 June Live To Tell: (A Proposal For) The Madonna Jukebox Musicalat Battersea Arts Centre.