South London Hardcore - Hold Fast Network

This week, we celebrate 10 years of South London Hardcore! Paul Ansorge is the guest host, as Jack and Steve look back on a decade of podcasting.

In this week's episode, Jack has travelled nearly 500 miles to the West of Ireland to update Steve on all the latest South London news, including counterfeit cash, haywire horses, drugs tunnels, and the best show on television.

A round up of interesting and unusual plaques from around South London

On the latest instalment of the SLHC Book Club we read The Vorrh by Brian Catling. We’re joined by Sherds host Sam Pulham to discuss the epic fantasy novel.

Bonus: SL Hot Guy World Cup follow up

MyLondon.News recently put together a list of The 13 Sexiest Guys in South London in 2020. Andrew Humphrey and Kezia McInroy join us as we chip in with our thoughts and additions, and count down to number one. Have your say on who are the most smoking hotties south of the river by taking part in our South London Hot Guy World Cup over on twitter.

With South London and the West of Ireland on lockdown, we stay home and put together a pre-Coronavirus local news roundup, including stolen Rembrandts, lost violins, faux altruism and a monarch in Thornton Heath.

We've put together a triple bill of Columbo episodes with South London links: Short Fuse (1972), Dagger of the Mind (1971) and Swan Song (1974). Short Fuse (1972) which features Herne Hill's Roddy McDowall as the murderer, the London-set Dagger of the Mind (1972), and Swan Song (1974) where Johnny Cash kills South Londoner Ida Lupino.

Owen Pomery joins us on a trip to Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery, in Vauxhall. We visited the current exhibition John Bellany and Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic.

With guest Stephen Graham. 1. Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me 2. Faithless - We Come 1 3. Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes 4. 808INK - Blessed Up 5. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet 6. Mis-Teeq - Scandalous 8. Kero Kero Bonito - Flamingo 7. AMM - Ailantus Glandulosa

165: Nicolas Obregon. The author of the Inspector Iwata novels Blue Light Yokohama and Sins As Scarlet. We talked about LA, Tokyo, Madrid and, of course, South London, finding links to Sherlock Holmes and Raymond Chandler.

We're answering listener questions including who'd play us in a SLHC film, worst guest and favourite co-host moments.

163: Playlist VIII Stephen Graham joins us as we compile another South London playlist. Featuring Nadia Rose, The KLF, The Beatles, Cockney Rebel, Charlie Drake, Skengdo and AM, and Bridget St John.Hosted by Jack McInroy and Steve Walsh

162: Local News.

This week we talk about a selected history of radio in South London. We take a trip to the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum in Dulwich and look at the life of founder Gerry Wells. We also look at South London radio stations from across the years and across the dial; pirate and official.

Featuring The Chemical Brothers, Mumford and Sons, DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies, Monie Love, Skunk Anansie and Tommy Steele

We head to Battersea to visit the power station, dog's home, park and arts centre. We also stop by a John Wayne set, Alfred Hitchock's school and a site of aviation historical significance.

This week we talk about two BBC sitcoms: Outnumbered, which was shot in Wandsorth, and Pulling, which is set in Penge.

Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: The Dark World, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Superman III - superhero films shot, in part, in South London. Our guest is Gavin Graham, who worked on the post production for Avengers and Thor.

This week we're joined by Steve's Mickypedia co-host Micky Boyd for a roundup of South London local news. We've got canine theft, an unorthodox prison escape, decorated gangsters, a dubious world record, and a dead man in a pub.

Episode 155: Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road

Andy Poyiadgi, comic creator and filmmaker, is our guest this week, talking about his work (including new book Lost Property), directing adverts and Loughborough Junction.

This week we wander around Streatham, taking in the sights and talking about our own memories of the place. Our theme music is an excerpt from X2 by the Harlow Family Group and is used with kind permission.

This week we talk to Helen Zaltzman and Martin Austwick, whose home studio in Crystal Palace has, for the last 8 years, provided a base for Answer Me This! a podcast that has won Sony Awards and critical acclaim as well as the hearts of many devoted listeners. As well as their work on AMT!, the couple have produced some other audio gems, with the latest development being The Allusionist, Helen's new show about language for Radiotopia that gives the popular U.S. podcast network its first content from overseas.

The Stanley Kubrick Archive is a collection of materials and resources spanning the entirety of the film director's career. Archivist Richard Daniels takes us on a tour of the archive, dipping in and out of Kubrick's boxes, looking at props, costumes, photographs, correspondence, books and many other things. We're also treated to the other collections in the archive, including the Tom Eckersley Collection, Her Noise and rare Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman originals.

Live at Hold Fest, 11th January 2015. Local news special.

Bermondsey - Shad Thames, the Rolling Stones rehearsal room, birthplace of the bourbon and garibaldi, world's first tinned food factory and Millwall FC.

The South London Book Club meets again to discuss two books by women from South West London - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella.

Velvet Underground, Bloc Party, James Blake, Hawkwind, Placebo and Natasha Bedingfield are on the sixth volume of our playlist - acts that went to university in South London.

Blur, Pink Floyd, Klaxon, JME and Humphrey Lyttelton are on the sixth volume of our playlist - acts that went to university in South London.

Episode 145: Manfred Mann. We talk to Manfred Mann (Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Pretty Flamingo, Mighty Quinn) about his music career, covering Bob Dylan, trying to sell Paul McCartney a harmonium and South London.

This week we visit Putney, including the Putney Debates, Clement Attlee, William Pitt the Younger, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, Howard Carter, Sandy Denny and Mr Benn.

Chiptune pop punk duo Fakebit Polytechnic join us for a chat about their songs, gigs and unique instruments, and a wander through Deptford Market.

A meditation on Norwood.

Our latest local news roundup features some stolen lightbulbs, skyline preservation, WWE wrestlers, public urination, a vision of our care home future and John Loughrey, Diana Super Fan.

Spike Milligan, one of the most important figures in the history of comedy, is inducted into the SLHC Hall of Fame. We talk about his childhood in Catford and Brockley and a career that included The Goon Show.

This week we paid a visit to the newly re-opened Imperial War Museum. We talked about the sites historical use as a site of the Bethlem Hospital, the history of the IWM as an institution and some of the curatorial decisions made in the museum's new incarnation.

For this year's Elefest we hosted a live show where we lead the audience on an aural adventure, spiralling around the Elephant & Castle roundabout from the outside in. We cover schools and churches, cinemas and shopping centres, housing estates and subways before ending up in front of a stainless steel substation. Join us on this journey, this time at your own convenience, where we can guide you around the colourful and expansive history of this iconic South London spot.

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse. The South London Book Club meets again to discuss novels by two alumni of Dulwich College

The Cinema Museum, based in the old Lambeth Workhouse which Charlie Chaplin visited as a child, is packed to the rafters with equipment, signage, furniture, uniforms and ephemera from picture houses across the decades. We talked to Ronald Grant, the founder of the museum, about its history and their vast collection. Visit cinemamuseum.org.uk for full details about visiting the museum and a full list of upcoming events.

Artist Ed Gray talks about growing up in Putney, studying at Wimbledon, working in Peckham and living in Rotherhithe, as well as the many South London scenes he has painted.

John Grindrod is author of Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain is new in paperback. We talk to John about his book, the National Theatre, the Festival of Britain, the prefabs in Catford and New Addington where he grew up. We also address the Croydon question.

Peep Show, the long-running Channel 4 comedy, is shot and set in Croydon. Lucky Feller, which starred a pre-Only Fools and Horses David Jason, was set in Lewisham and shot on a soundstage at LWT.

Miranda Sawyer, the Observer's radio critic, talks to us about Brixton, the heyday of Smash Hits and where radio and podcasts sit in the cultural conversation.

Brockley, taking in all the sights, including the Rivoli Ballroom, Hilly Fields and the Brockley Jack.

At the turn of the century there was a Gaumont Film Company studio on Champion Hill in Camberwell. There's nothing left of it now, but the Friends of Dog Kennel Hill Wood hosted a screening of films produced by the studio on the spot the sound stage was located this past Saturday night. We talked to the organisers about putting this extravaganza of Edwardian cinema together and have a chat about the films themselves as well as the innovation and creativity that still shine through.

Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Mad Frank, the autobiography of Frankie Fraser are read for this week's South London Book Club.

Featuring Kate Bush, Oasis, Dexys, Manfred Mann, Sid Vicious, Young MC, Asian Dub Foundation, Procol Harum, Des'ree and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Mortlake and East Sheen, former home to mathematician and alchemist John Dee and Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the world wide web.

Con artists, counterfeit trainers, Rastafarian banners and our response to The Metro's 'Five reasons not to go to South London' article.

We visit the notable spots in South Norwood and talk about the area's most famous residents, including Pickles, the dog that found the World Cup, and Led Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant. Includes an interview with the South Norwood Tourist Board.