The Hackney Podcast
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Podcast Description
Your monthly serving of Hackney driven fare with an ear on local stories and arty endeavours from Hoxton to Homerton, Lordship to Leabridge. Francesca Panetta brings you interviews, reports and sound recordings, with regular contributions from the London Review of Breakfasts and our resident ethics lecturer James Wilson.
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Edition 22: Hackney Hear | Our iPhone app Hackney Hear is now on iTunes. - There are more details on our Hackney Hear web site but a quick reminder for those who haven't been following us. The app triggers sound via your GPS. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 21: Wild Hackney | Wild Hackney is a docu-drama taking you through an imaginary landscape of the Lee Valley after the seawater has risen. - Made in response to the canal and the surrounding ancient flood plains, the piece takes as inspiration the Victorian Gothic novel ... | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 20: Writers on Walking | We take four authors for a walk through Hackney. Sean Borodale's poem Notes for an Atlas guides us through, we rise early to join Iain Sinclair for his morning perambulation to the A12, Lemn Sissay takes us from his local shop Palm 2 (where all walks b... | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 19: Coffeecast | The Third Wave of Coffee is pouring its way in to Hackney. Cafes such as the Penny University, Mouse & De Lotz and the Counter Cafe pride themselves in their artisan beverages, meticulously measuring the temperature of the milk and the pressure of thei... | 8/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 18: Night | "Night in London is a brief period of infinite possibility" wrote the journalist and travel writer HV Morton in the 1920s, and nowhere is this truer than in Hackney, which from doors open till dawn chorus becomes an asphalt jungle for revellers, | 4/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 17: Buses | Hackney depends on buses. With no tubes, they're how we get around. But what do you do while you're on the bus? Read, eye up the guy opposite? Is it a space for reflection? Or just irritation? Hackney's bus riders tell us. | 2/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEdition 16: The Empire | In this programme we trace the shifting guises of the Hackney Empire - from music hall to bingo hall, from television studio to wrestling venue, to its current incarnation as a home for populist theatre and comedy. | 12/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 15: Bookies, brunch and bats | Photographer Stephen Gill talks to Francesca Panetta about his particular fascination with Hackney Wick, an area he has documented over the last eight years in noisy images ranging from the backs of advertising boards to the banks of the River Lea. | 11/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 14: Water | This Sony Award-winning programme looks at water and how it fits into the lives of people in Hackney. Author and psycho-geographer Iain Sinclair follows the route of Hackney Brook, a subterranean ghost river which runs from Highbury to Hackney Wick and.. | 9/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 13: Cornelius Cardew, mushroom sandwiches and the Dalston Mill | Francesca Panetta meets the dogs and dogwalkers of London Fields, London Review of Breakfasts editor Malcolm Eggs goes in search of the Magic 9 ingredients at Stoke Newington Farmers Market, and we visit the Dalston Mill, | 8/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 12: Olympic Park Tour | Francesca Panetta joins John Hopkins - the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Project Sponsor for Parklands and Public Realm - for a tour of the site in East London. This will be London's first major park since Victorian times, | 6/25/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 11: Birdsong | Recorded at London Fields between 04:00 and 04:30 on Thursday 21st May. London Fields East Side from 00:00 to 03:32, Lansdown Drive (crows) from 03:32 to 04:10. Edits in the recording are indicated by tape generated sounds at 02:27 and 03:32. | 5/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 10: Kingsland Road | Buzzing, maddening, chaotic, dirty, dangerous and fun is how locals describe this section of the A10 between Old Street and Dalston Junction. Hackney poet Shane Solanki has written us a song all about the Kingsland Road, starting a bit further north, | 4/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 9: Interior Design, Meg Hillier MP and F Cooke Pies | Richard Shed, creator of the Here Hook, is our guide to some of the borough’s interior design workshops including Studio F1, where we meet Simon Maidment, Gitta Gschwendtner and Sam Johnson. Sheridan Coakley, | 3/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 8: DIY Cocktails, Victorian book clubs and the London Assembly | Off Broadway’s cocktail consultant Benji reveals his method for the perfect Martini. Jennette Arnold, Chair of the London Assembly, explains how she and the rest of the Assembly hold Mayor Boris Johnson to account, | 2/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 7: City Furnishings | Francesca Panetta is joined by Joanna Smith from English Heritage for a tour of the buildings at the heart of the furniture trade in Victorian and Edwardian Shoreditch. Brad Lochore from the campaign group OPEN Shoreditch and George Galloway MP for Be | 1/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 6: Iain Sinclair | London chronicler and Haggerston resident Iain Sinclair talks to Francesca Panetta about Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report. It's his eagerly awaited ‘documentary-fiction’ based on forty years of living and working in Hackney, | 12/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 5: Legacy in the Dust | Francesca Panetta attends the premiere of Legacy in the Dust, a film charting the history of the Four Aces in Dalston. She talks to the club’s founder Newton Dunbar, singer Winston Reedy and the film’s director Winstan Whitter. | 11/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 4: Beyond the A12, And What She Found There | Francesca Panetta reports from the first Hackney Wicked, a festival showcasing emerging artists and galleries in Hackney Wick. We join Hashley Brown of the London Review of Breakfasts for some Turkish menemen at Cafe Alizza on Kingsland High Street. | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 3: Sound Designs | Francesca Panetta visits Cafe OTO, the new music venue in Dalston run by Hamish Dunbar and Keiko Yamamoto, and meets one of their regular performers, Atsuko Kamura.After a lesson in brake tuning at bicycle cafe Lock 7 and a bell-themed sonic adventure | 9/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 2: Shoots, Leaves and Shops | Francesca Panetta joins Hackney artist Tom Hunter for a stroll down Mare Street whose many and varied shops are the subject matter of his latest exhibition of photographs currently on display at the V&A Museum of Childhood. | 8/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edition 1: Herbed Beans and Olympic Conspiracies | Francesca Panetta invites Hashley Brown of the London Review of Breakfasts to sample an alternative Full English at Little Georgia at its new home in Goldsmith’s Row, Haggerston - never before have baked beans come under such close scrutiny. | 7/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 22 Episodes |
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