On the Record: Recent Episodes
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A gorgeous conversation between Judy (museums & heritage professional), Michelle (@_artdp, creative producer, community activist), Lex (poet, storyteller and conflict manager) and Swareena (designer) in the Myatts Fields greenhouse. Michelle and Lex are Myatts Fields regulars who contribute to the area's creative life in many ways. Michelle is on the Park events committee and is encouraging more youth involvement on the back of her hugely successful hip hop festival. Lex had a big turning point in his spoken word career at an event on the bandstand in 2022. Judy and Swareena are experiencing the Park for the first time on the day this conversation was recorded. In fact Swareena had moved from India to Lambeth only seven days ago. We're so pleased she's able to join us!
Jill Eastmond in conversation with her mum Doreen on the topic of working motherhood! Enjoy these two fabulously funny nurses talking about 'doing it all' in a society that still doesn't fully value the women and men who came over to rebuild the NHS.
Part of a suite of pieces composed by Nicole Robson for On the Record's project with Guy's and St Thomas'.
One of a suite of pieces composed by Nicole Robson for On the Record. To accompany an oral history of nursing and time.
Part of a suite of pieces by Nicole Robson for On the Record's project with Guy's and St Thomas' nurses and midwives/
Jill Eastman calls her 85 year old mother Doreen every evening after work. Both dedicated their careers to NHS nursing. Here they discuss the life Doreen left behind in Barbados, and the pride she took in helping the sick, even when people openly discriminated against her as a Black woman.
The Quick and the Dead - An oral history of Brompton Cemetery
"The Dead" ventures below ground. Brompton Cemetery is home to over 200,000 permanent residents ranging from Emmeline Pankhurst to newly buried infants. It’s also a great place to “time travel,” as H.G. Wells discovered. You can keep appointments with the past, and with future events that are waiting for us to find our way to them at last.
The Voices of the Dead are: Louise Westmoreland, Phil Walder, Lieve Carchon, Stephen Coates, Dr. Matthew Green and Vanessa Woolf.
The idea of seeing faces "dimly reflected" in the stones is a quote from poet Jean Sprackland's wonderful book "These Silent Mansions".
Oral history by Laura Mitchison with co-production and sound design by Steve Urquhart.
The Quick and the Dead - an oral history of Brompton Cemetery
"The Quick" is an ancient word for the living and tender flesh, beloved of Wild West gunslingers. Of London’s “Magnificent Seven” Cemeteries, Brompton Cemetery is the rebellious little sister. In the 1970s and 1980s, as the narrators recall, she was a cheeky shortcut between Chelsea’s counterculture and the Leather bars of Earls Court. Brompton’s “outlaw spirit” has been tamed, but she remains a sanctuary for the wild-at-heart, and for wildlife. Soaring above the human voices, you’ll hear crows conspiring and cicadas shimmering.
The Voices of the Quick are: Sarah Cheesbrough, Sasha de Suinn, Duggie Fields, Shirley Wiggins, John Lenihan, Daphne the squirrel, and Joe Mellen.
Oral history and production by Laura Mitchison with co-production and sound design by Steve Urquhart.