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Political commentator Robert Godden returns to examine how Trump's policies ripple through South Australian vineyards and shipyards, while introducing us to diverse local voters shaping our electoral landscape - from climate-conscious Ellie in Goodwood to disillusioned Mick in Morphett Vale. Robert's record for calling elections correctly stands firm as he reveals which South Australian electorates might swing in the upcoming federal vote. Though Labor appears headed for a reduced majority, the real question is how our vote might influence America's orange-tinted decisions affecting our exports and defence agreements. In the Musical Pilgrimage, Lizzie Hosking's soulful track "Can't Figure You Out" perfectly captures the electoral indecision many South Australians face heading into the May 3rd poll, while a Good Friday interview with Richard Pascoe uncovers the gruesome history buried at St. Mary's Anglican Church. There is no SA Drink Of The Week this week. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We're here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It's an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we'll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store - The Adelaide Show Shop. We'd greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here's our index of all episode in one concisepage. Running Sheet: From Trump to Two Wells - SA's Political Crossroads In AusVotes 2025 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:00:00 SA Drink Of The Week No South Australian Drink Of The Week, this week. 00:03:41 Robert Godden Robert Godden, our regular political analyst who correctly called the 2018 South Australian election before Antony Green, joins us to examine the upcoming federal election through a South Australian lens. With the shadow of Donald Trump's presidency louring over international relations, the conversation begins with the "Trump factor" and its potential impacts on our state. "We can look at what happened with China when they put tariffs on us," Robert explains when discussing Trump's trade war implications for South Australian exports like beef, wine, and seafood. "Remember Christmas before last when people were indulging in lobster who'd never had it before because it was so cheap?" He suggests diversification of markets is essential, noting how Australia pivoted successfully during the China tariff challenge. The conversation takes a more serious turn when examining the AUKUS agreement, with Robert noting that America's treatment of Australia has drawn criticism even from US politicians like Democratic Senator Mark Warner. "He spent a good half hour listing all the reasons... anyone with brains and shame would've gone, 'He's right, let's help Australia out.' But Trump hasn't shown great quantities of either." Robert's assessment of climate policy delivers perhaps the episode's most cutting insight: "The easiest way for the Liberals to have a chance at getting back in power would be to embrace the climate cause." He argues that the six Teal candidates in parliament are essentially "liberals with climate views," representing votes the Coalition has surrendered to independents. When Steve asks whether anything Australia does could influence Trump's policies, Robert responds with characteristic frankness: "He doesn't understand international trade. I mean, look, he doesn't understand shoelaces." The interview shifts to a fascinating examination of voter personas Robert has created, representing different South Australian demographics and their voting intentions. These include Ellie from Goodwood (a 29-year-old non-binary arts worker voting Green), Tyler from Lightsview (a 21-year-old apprentice electrician leaning Liberal), Andrew from Aldgate (a 45-year-old high school teacher supporting Rebecca Sharkie), Mick from Morphett Vale (a 53-year-old injured truck driver voting One Nation), and Jade from Christies Beach (a financially stretched childcare worker who remains undecided). When discussing cost of living concerns, Robert delivers one of the episode's most provocative statements: "If Peter Dutton wants to win this election at all costs, all he has to do is chuck money at people. If he said to the electorate, 'If you vote for me, I'll give you $300 a week from now until the next election' – job done." Robert heartily recommends using the ABC Vote Compass to help you see where you sit idealogically, and how that aligns to the parties. 01:04:04 St Mary's Anglican Church Cemetary Steve shares a recording from his Good Friday conversation with Richard Pascoe on FiveAA, discussing the upcoming cemetery tour at St. Mary's Anglican Church on Saturday, May 17, 2025, from 10am to 2pm. The segment reveals fascinating South Australian history, including the burial sites of Richard Hamilton (father of South Australia's wine industry) and Benjamin Herschel Babbage (son of computing pioneer Charles Babbage). The conversation takes a macabre turn as Steve describes university researchers' discoveries in the cemetery's pauper section, including bodies broken to fit into smaller coffins, teeth ravaged by untreated cavities, and even evidence of leprosy in early South Australia. "It just fires up gratitude for me of what we've actually been able to achieve," Steve reflects, noting how easily we forget the harsh realities our ancestors faced. 01:16:06 Musical Pilgrimage In the Musical Pilgrimage, we feature Can't Figure You Out by Lizzie Hosking. Steve praises her "breathy and hearty voice" with its "clear, clean, strong" qualities that draw listeners in. The song's sultry jazz feel and title perfectly mirror the electoral indecision many South Australians feel approaching the May 3rd federal poll. As Steve notes, "I chose it because frankly, I can't figure out who is worthy of my vote."Support the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's Gracie M, a Venezuelan comedian making waves in the London comedy circuit. From open mics to Barcelona, to the Edinburgh Fringe, Gracie shares the highs and lows of performing, the challenges of running a showcase, and the unique experience of doing stand-up in multiple languages.They dive into the art of translating humour, how cultural context shapes comedy, and the struggle of balancing a day job with a passion for stand-up. Gracie also reveals her approach to accents, impressions, and audience dynamics, and why understanding joke structure is key to success. Plus, she takes on a comedian's challenge, proving that even serious topics can end in laughs!Whether you're a comedy fan or an aspiring comic, this episode is packed with insights, stories, and plenty of laughs. Tune in!
This episode of The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices – our last for this season – was recorded at the White Swan in Aldgate, London on November 27th in front of a live audience. In the absence of our usual annual Media Moments report*, we took a fun look back at some of the pivotal publishing moments of the year, and what 2025 might have in store. The audience were invited to participate so we're able to include contributions from wiser folks than us! The team's top stories from 2024 The Onion announcing it had bought Infowars after Alex Jones' bankruptcy. Google abandoned a plan it announced 4 years ago and has delayed and delayed since then to block third-party cookies from Chrome. A federal judge ruled that Google illegally maintains its monopoly in search and search advertising. The government are now proposing Google divest Chrome. Condé Nast decided to to fold iconic music-review website Pitchfork into men's lifestyle magazine GQ Five former Pitchfork journalists are getting the band together to start a new online music publication, Hearing Things. Predictions for 2025 The print revival comes to news Esther is hopeful that next year will see a revival of news print. Not newspapers, but news print; weekly or monthly magazine-style editions. Newspapers are clearly in a long-term decline that is unlikely to reverse. But a look at what's happening with the magazine print revival shows that there is hope for the format, albeit different to what it was a few decades ago. Caution on over-diversification At the PPA's Independent Publisher Conference, Sift's Chief Strategy Officer Louise White pointed out that the industry has got too absorbed with multiple revenue streams. “The obsession with diversifying revenues is dangerous,” she said on Linkedin. “That's a bigger media play. Most independents don't have the expertise or bandwidth and it leads to mediocrity at many rather than excellence in few.” So the ‘mix of six' saying we've been fans of for years should perhaps be revised for 2025. The key is…three?
Stangate House at Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills is known for its spectacular collection of rhododendrons. They're relatively easy to grow and the President of the Rhododendron Society of SA, Rob Hatcher tells you how.
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
This week, AF Trustee Shumi Bose moderates a discussion on the state of architectural education with panellists Adrian Lahoud (Dean, School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art), Kester Rattenbury (former Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster), and Neal Shasore (Head of the London School of Architecture). The event was recorded in front of a live audience on 1 February 2023 at Benk and Bo in Aldgate, London. An upcoming live panel, titled "The Rights of the Architectural Worker" takes place on the evening of Tuesday 25 June at the Barbican Centre, with speakers Bob Allies (Allies and Morrison) Charlie Edmonds (Future Architects Front) and Jane Issler Hall (Assemble), as well as members of the Section of Architectural Workers. For more information and to book your tickets, follow this link. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions, fleeing from their sordid pasts, are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Jon Enge (he/him) https://jonenge.carrd.co/ Artem Yatsunov (he/they) https://linktr.ee/artemdirectly - Juno Falstaff (she/they), Orc Barbarian Brian Suskind (he/him) https://bsuskind.carrd.co/ - Devlin Harways (he/him), Werewolf Fighter Darby Pak (she/they) https://linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby - Connie D'Vadalis (she/they), Human Witch Vixie Belle (she/her) https://linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub - Céline D'Beaumont (she/her), Half-Elf Duelist ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
Four desperate companions fleeing from their sordid pasts are unexpectedly stranded in a snowy mountain pass. Now, they must uncover the secrets of a small town, and each other! This is Aldgate Adventures, a Savage Worlds actual play. GM: Enge (jonenge.carrd.co) Artem Yatsunov (linktr.ee/artemdirectly) Brian Suskind (bsuskind.carrd.co) Darby Pak (linktr.ee/ChaoticDarby) Vixie Belle (linktr.ee/pocketdragonpub) ◇ Savage Worlds , produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group ◇ Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/aldgateadvantures for a full list of this campaign's sessions as videos or podcasts. ◇ Follow Happy Jacks RPG on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or hang out with other tabletop roleplaying fans in our Discord community! ◇ Subscribe to our other podcast feeds! We have a weekly tabletop RPG talk show based on topics sent in from fans around the world, and a great collection of One-Shots if you prefer bite sized adventures. ◇ You can watch us on Youtube or Twitch! ◇ Keep us independent by becoming a Patreon! Our fantastic supporters let us play and say what we want instead of catering to companies for ad or sponsorship money. They are HEROES! https://patreon.com/happyjacksrpg Ⓒ2024 Happy Jacks RPG Network https://www.happyjacks.org
On 7th July 2005 Martine Wright found herself on the circle line tube travelling to Aldgate station. That morning she was late to work and so sat in a different carriage to normal – as she sat and read the paper, she was unaware she was sitting just 3 feet away from a suicide bomber. Martine was one of the worst injured survivors following the 7/7 terrorist attack in London. She lost both her legs, 80 % of her blood and waited 1 ½ hours to be extrapolated from the chaos by the rescue workers that day. With life changing injuries, some individuals may have given up. Not Martine – following a one year stay in hospital, intensive rehabilitation and multiple surgeries, she went on to become a sitting volleyball player – representing Team GB in the London 2012 Paralympic games. Martine is now a wife, mother, motivational speaker, charity ambassador and has even gained a pilots licence.
Warning: graphic contentMystery surrounds the mass murderer known as Jack the Ripper. He prowled the back streets of London's East End preying on the poor and the vulnerable.This devil butchered his victims and left their mutilated corpses down dark alleys, on doorsteps, and in doss houses. Then, the killer vanished, seemingly into thin air.What spurred the Ripper on his rampage? Some believe he was driven by dark forces conjured from hell itself. The evidence, they say, is plain to see––if you know what to look for.In this podcast we go to Whitechapel – Jack the Ripper's hunting ground – in search of answers.
My guest today is Shahzad Younas, who is the founder of Muzz, which you would absolutely know about if you are a Muslim - you would know nothing about if you are not - it is the world's largest Muslim dating site - if dating is the right word to use. He used to be an investment banker and then realised this is not what he wanted to do with this life, and what a journey! If you know the story of how business works in the background for some of those things you end up having in your hand, it would blow you away. So excited to have a conversation about, not only how he ended up here but why he ended up here, and you know, how different some of our cultures are when it comes to love, dating and romance. Shahzad Younas (London, UK) is the founder and CEO of Muzz (formerly muzmatch). Previously a Vice President in Equity Portfolio Trading at investment bank Morgan Stanley for 9 years, Shahzad quit his career to fully focus on building a high-quality mobile app to help Muslims around the world find their perfect marriage partner.Backed with a total of $9M investment (Seed and Series A) from a range of Silicon Valley and global investors, headquartered in Aldgate, London, and boasting a fast-growing 65+ strong global team, Muzz (formerly muzmatch) is transforming how Muslims meet and marry.Listen as we discuss: 02:00 - Muslims don't date they marry! 06:30 - The gamification of dating apps 09:30 - Finding Love 16:00 - The process of choice 19:00 - Sex education 21:30 - Where's the romance? 25:30 - Looking for the one 27:30 - What does the science say? 31:30 - When things go wrong 35:00 - Leave her in kindness 36:00 - Treat others as you want to be treated 38:30 - Ethics 40:30 - Do dating app works? 47:00 - AI 49:30 - Solve it for women 56:00 - Working from home 59:00 - Good boys win 01:07:00 - The mechanics of it 01:11:30 - Honestly 01:13:00 - Ghosting Connect with Shahzad Younas on LinkedIn and learn more about his work here.YouTube: @mogawdatofficialInstagram: @mo_gawdatLinkedIn: /in/mogawdatWebsite: mogawdat.comDon't forget to subscribe to Slo Mo for new episodes every Saturday. Only with your help can we reach One Billion Happy #onebillionhappy
Wie viele Leben ist der blaue Diamant wert? Ein packender Kriminalfall für Sebastian St. Cyr im geheimnisvollen Regency London
The fates of three people from the 1940s, ‘70s and today collide in Chris Hammer's thrilling new mystery, “The Tilt” - you won't see it coming! + Prolific 20th century writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote everything from witty and malicious novels about the British literati to his still famous Utopian dystopia Brave New World, and later in his 50 year career went on to explore the world of psychedelic drugs. Annie Warburton explores the Huxley ouvre to understand why Huxley remains a classic. + Our random reader Chris also loves a good mystery Guests… Chris Hammer, author of “The Tilt” and other books including the internationally bestselling Martin Scarsden series: “Scrublands”, “Silver” and “Trust”. Annie Warburton, Tsundoku's “Occasional Reporter on Dead White Men” revists Aldoux Huxley Other books that get a mention… Annie and Michaela mention “Ghost Tattoo” by Tony Bernard, “Birnam Wood”and “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton, “The Ferryman; A Novel” by Justin Cronin and “The Disorganisation of Celia Stone” by Emma Young Annie Warburton mentions Aldous Huxley's “Crome Yellow” (1921), “Antic Hay” (1923), “Brave New World: (1932), “Eyeless in Gaza” (1936), “The Doors of Perception” (1954)..as well as writers Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and William Blake Chris from Aldgate mentions writers Peter May, Ian Rankin and DH Lawrence's “The Rainbow” INSTAGRAM @allenandunwin @thehammernow FACEBOOK @Hammernow @allen&unwinbooksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The fates of three people from the 1940s, ‘70s and today collide in Chris Hammer's thrilling new mystery, “The Tilt” - you won't see it coming! + Prolific 20th century writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote everything from witty and malicious novels about the British literati to his still famous Utopian dystopia Brave New World, and later in his 50 year career went on to explore the world of psychedelic drugs. Annie Warburton explores the Huxley ouvre to understand why Huxley remains a classic. + Our random reader Chris also loves a good mystery Guests… Chris Hammer, author of “The Tilt” and other books including the internationally bestselling Martin Scarsden series: “Scrublands”, “Silver” and “Trust”. Annie Warburton, Tsundoku's “Occasional Reporter on Dead White Men” revists Aldoux Huxley Other books that get a mention… Annie and Michaela mention “Ghost Tattoo” by Tony Bernard, “Birnam Wood”and “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton, “The Ferryman; A Novel” by Justin Cronin and “The Disorganisation of Celia Stone” by Emma Young Annie Warburton mentions Aldous Huxley's “Crome Yellow” (1921), “Antic Hay” (1923), “Brave New World: (1932), “Eyeless in Gaza” (1936), “The Doors of Perception” (1954)..as well as writers Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh and William Blake Chris from Aldgate mentions writers Peter May, Ian Rankin and DH Lawrence's “The Rainbow” INSTAGRAM @allenandunwin @thehammernow FACEBOOK @Hammernow @allen&unwinbooksSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It is generally assumed that women in medieval times (and later) had very little independent authority either in the home or outside it. But the study of the records surviving from the city of London in the medieval period (1200-1500) suggests a rather different picture. In this talk Professor Caroline Mary Barron will look at the wills of three London women: Mathilda the ‘smerewyf' (probably a maker of tallow candles) who died in 1260; Mathilda Penne, a skinner or furrier who died in 1393 and Johanna Hill, who ran a bell-founding workshop outside Aldgate and died in 1441. The wills of these women, and there are many similar wills, challenge the assumption that women were denied a role in the economy of the medieval city. On the contrary they were active in the ‘ hidden economy' of medieval London despite the conventions of the time that barred them from roles in office-holding and governance.
In this conversation, we're discussing how we can test new ideas for the public realm with temporary built projects, and the role they can play in shaping a more sustainable and equitable city. We're focussing on two installations that formed part of the London Festival of Architecture 2023 programme. The projects mentioned in this episode are in-situ until August. Find out more information on about On Tenterground and Common Ground on the LFA website. For the first conversation we're joined by Lydia Allain Chapman, who oversees all built projects and competitions at the LFA. We then speak with Marwa El Mubark (Saqqra) and Nasios Varnavas (Urban Radicals), two of the designers behind Common Ground. We close with a conversation with Chāo Gāo, founding director of ciaociao design, whose On Tenterground is currently installed in Aldgate. URBAN RADICALS is a collaborative studio that designs objects, rooms, architectures and landscapes. The studio started out in 2019 as a duo between architects Era Savvides and Nasios Varnavas, and is now an expansive network between friends, colleagues and expert collaborators, solving design problems across contexts and scales. Ciaociao Design is a design studio focusing on landscape architecture and art installations, founded by Chao Gao in 2020. Ciaociao Design's ethos is to create sustainable and memorable spaces for everyone. Chao is a chartered Landscape Architect who has over ten years experience. She has successfully designed and delivered many notable UK and international projects. Saqqra is a new collective founded by writers and researchers Marwa El Mubark and Niall Bridgeman. Saqqra is interested in decolonizing and decarbonizing construction industry and just wider conversations around architecture. Both Marwan and Niall also teach at Kingston and UEL. This episode was produced and edited by Katya Spiers. You can find a transcript of the conversation using the link below: Download the transcript Images: On Tenterground © Luke O'Donovan, Common Ground © Joe Howard @ Bar Productions Image description: A compilation image of Common Ground and On Tenterground, the two LFA projects mentioned in this podcast. The upper image of Common Ground is a close up showing the materiality of the project. The bottom image is a close up of the sails which form part of Tenterground.
Lindsay and Madison are joined by Brad from Doomsday: History's Most Dangerous Podcast to discuss the infamous Aldgate Pump of Death, as well as why you should always cover your wells, that you shouldn't put plumbing under a number of corpses, and the traumatizing truth of cholera. Information pulled from the following sources: 2021 Living London History article by Jack Chesher 2018 Ian Visits post by Ian Mansfield 2017 Look Up London article 2011 Spitalfields Life article Atlas Obscura The Heritage of London Trust Historic UK article by Ben Johnson Wikipedia (1) Get your groceries and essentials delivered in as fast as 1 hour via Instacart. Free delivery on your first 3 orders. Min $10 per order. Terms apply. Become a member on Buy Me A Coffee for as little as $1/month to support the show. You can write to us at: Ye Olde Crime Podcast, PO Box 341, Wyoming, MN 55092. Join the conversation over at the Cultiv8 Discord and join the Olde Crimers Cubby to chat with us and other listeners of the show. Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Spotify or Goodpods! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Father Jarel Robinson-Brown is a queer Black theologian and Anglican priest, whose 2021 book, Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the Famine of Grace, takes the Church and its leadership to task for its exclusion of queer Black bodies, citing the historical and ongoing “ecclesial terrorism of the Christian community through its speech and its silence”. Far from justifying queer Black bodies of faith as worthy of communion, Jarel argues that Christianity as it's ministered and practised now evidences a famine of grace, a wayward deviation from the inclusive ministry of Jesus. In our conversation, Jarel gives an honest appraisal of the doctrine of forgiveness and shares how his theology has been transformed in relationship with those he ministers to. He also diagnoses the disembodiment of our faith as a symptom of the Church's bodyphobia and says that the separation of faith and prayer from sex and pleasure prevents us from knowing and enjoying God as fully as God wants us to. And as the church continues to rattle through an identity crisis, Jarel also shares with us his vision for what Christianity becomes at the end of the world as we know it. About Father Jarel Robinson-Brown Father Jarel Robinson-Brown is the Assistant Curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories in the Diocese of London. He is also Visiting Scholar at Sarum College, Salisbury and Co-Chair of the LGBTQ Christian Charity OneBodyOneFaith, which works for the full inclusion of LGBTQ people in the Church. His books and publications are available at jarelrobinsonbrown.com. About Busy Being Black Busy Being Black is an exploration and expression of quare liveliness and my guests are those who have learned to live, love and thrive at the intersection of their identities. Your support of the show means the world. Please leave a rating and a review and share these conversations far and wide. As we continue to work towards futures worthy of us all, my hope is that as many of you as possible understand Busy Being Black as a soft, tender and intellectually rigorous place for you to land. Thank you to our funding partner, myGwork – the business community for LGBT+ professionals, students, inclusive employers and anyone who believes in workplace equality. Thank you to my friend Lazarus Lynch for creating the ancestral and enlivening Busy Being Black theme music. Thank you to Lucian Koncz and Stevie Gatez for helping bring new Busy Being Black artwork into the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Up to 4000 River Murray residents could be without power for weeks as the region braces for a record flood event. Major aged-care provider Estia Health says residents at its Aldgate home are “safe and well” after concerns emerged some were forced to sleep in chairs and eat lukewarm food during SA's major blackout.Adelaide's queen of news, Jane Doyle, has made headlines telling viewers she will step down next month after 33 years as Channel 7's newsreader.Guy Sebastian's former manager has been jailed for embezzling more than $620,000 of the pop singer's earnings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome back to Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.In today's episode, Helen is joined by Rachel Ledwith from The Felix Project, Paul Wilson from EastendHomes and Helen, Ruby and Forhana from Food for Aldgate. They discuss their mission to reduce food waste in East London and beyond.We start by with learning more about The Felix Project from Rachel, the head of community engagement. Rachel shares how The Felix Project came to be and what motivated her to start working within food redistribution. We also hear from Paul Wilson, the Community Engagement Manager at EastendHomes. He talks about why he helped set up Food for Aldgate and the impact that partnerships with other likeminded community organisations have had.Helen also chats to the volunteers from Food for Aldgate - Helen, Forhana and Ruby. They discuss why they got involved in the project and how they think it's helped their local community.If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend! And if you would like to get involved in volunteering for The Felix Project, they're always looking for new volunteers - you can sign up here! This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on! Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast
Jess Harrold is joined by deputy editor Tim Burke to round up the week's news. Burke discusses Amazon's big plans for Cardiff, a major new scheme in Aldgate that has secured approval, more planning news from the City of London and the rest of the latest headlines. And, in a special bank holiday treat, he shares his five-track (well, one is an album) real estate-themed hip hop playlist. Give the "Burke mix" a listen at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rvc3wbsf6iQb73iHTxJKq - and tweet us your suggestions for tracks to add @EGPropertyNews @_tim_burke
We're back with another episode of Our House, a podcast brought to you by award winning social landlord, EastendHomes.Today Helen is chatting to the brilliant Zoe Barwick and Izzy Kasinska from Aldgate Connect. They begin by discussing what a business improvement district is and their work to build a business community in Aldgate. They then share how the Aldgate community is like an incubator and space for people to connect. They also tell us a little more about their activities for the community like their parade and Fête in Aldgate Square. This series is sponsored by our friends over at Community Fibre, who are future-proofing London's communities by delivering a 100% full fibre broadband throughout the capital. Community Fibre believes in a more inclusive future where everyone has access to better broadband and they achieve this by providing a fairly price faster broadband service that people can rely on!If you liked this episode, please follow us, give it a rating and share with a friend!Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast
A huge fire has broken out in a block of flats and offices near London's Algate East underground station - sending 'glass panels crashing hundreds of meters to the ground'. Around 125 firefighters in 20 vehicles are currently at the scene of the inferno on the 17th floor of a high rise building on Whitechapel High Street in Aldgate, east London. Calls are growing for people to boycott Coca-Cola as they have yet to pull operations out of Russia despi te Putin's invasion of Ukraine entering its twelfth day. Trends on Twitter including #BoycottCocaCola surf aced over the weekend as it emerged the company, which has 10 bottling plants in Russia, is not making any changes to operations following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
A huge fire has broken out in a block of flats and offices near London's Algate East underground station - sending 'glass panels crashing hundreds of meters to the ground'. Around 125 firefighters in 20 vehicles are currently at the scene of the inferno on the 17th floor of a high rise building on Whitechapel High Street in Aldgate, east London. Calls are growing for people to boycott Coca-Cola as they have yet to pull operations out of Russia despite Putin's invasion of Ukraine entering its twelfth day. Trends on Twitter including #BoycottCocaCola surfaced over the weekend as it emerged the company, which has 10 bottling plants in Russia, is not making any changes to operations following the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
Anne Thorne founded Anne Thorne Architects Partnership in 1991. Prior to that she was a founder member of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative 1980. Her work includes co-housing, the design of affordable passive housing and the conversion of existing houses to low energy standards and primary schools in Brixton and Essex including for children with special needs. Her work has always considered energy efficiency – excluding pollutants using natural and re-cycled materials. Collaboration is key to her practice. He work with artists on the re-design of the subway network at Aldgate included extensive community surveys, working with traffic engineers to enable planting trees in place of the subways. She was Master of the Art Workers Guild in 2019. Frances Bradshaw has been a partner at Anne Thorne Architects since 1995. She has focussed on how women's lives shape and are shaped by buildings and the city, on participatory design, on regeneration and community projects, and on low energy and ecological building design including building to the the passivhaus standard. She has contributed through practice based research, lectures, articles and seminars to developing and forwarding sustainable design and construction, and has been Trustee of the Association for Environment Conscious Building since 2012. Fran studied architecture and trained as a bricklayer. In 1980 she was a founder member of Matrix, the feminist design collective, and is a joint author of ‘Making Space - Women and the man made environment' (1984, reprinted 2022)
The Adelaide Hills 2022 Young Citizen of the Year is Chantelle Wuttke. The 18-year-old Aldgate local has been a positive light for her school and community, with charitable volunteer work at Southern Cross Kids' Camps and passionate commitment to improving the lives of others. Chantelle joins Jennie Lenman for a chat about her life and work and some issues affecting young people today.
The Adelaide Hills property market has proven to be one of the most fruitful in South Australia this year. According to CoreLogic data, new benchmarks have been set across 88 towns and suburbs over 2021, with Aldgate, Lobethal, Upper Sturt, Stirling and Hahndorf listed as the top performing suburbs. Median House prices in the Adelaide Hills Council area have jumped by 15.2 per cent over 12 months up to $725,000 while houses in the Mt Barker Council region are up 8.2 per cent more than this time last year, selling for an average of $475,000. Rural sales manager Ray White Woodside Coonalyn Alistair Johnson joins Jennie Lenman in this podcast for a chat about it.
This is the tale of how Timothy Tugmutton & Simon Whifflingpin from the Bank of Aldgate Pump arrived at a tiny Portuguese island in the southern Atlantic.
On the podcast this week, the Revd Jarel Robinson-Brown talks about his book, "Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and the famine of grace." It's published by SCM Press and is available from the Church Times Bookshop for the special price of £15.99. He is in conversation with the Revd Winnie Varghese, who is the Rector of St Luke's Episcopal Church, Atlanta. It was recorded at an online book launch this week, which was introduced by David Shervington, the senior commissioning editor at SCM Press. In a review of the book for the Church Times (Books, 3 September), the Revd Brunel James writes: “This book is a must-read and deserves to be a bestseller. There is a battle going on for the soul of the Church, and Jarel Robinson-Brown's new book makes a courageous contribution to the discussion. It really should be compulsory reading for any church leader who has never thought through how we privilege the White and the heterosexual in our church life, and what this means for those among us who are Black and LGBTQ+.” The Revd Jarel Robinson-Brown is Assistant Curate of St Botolph without Aldgate, in London. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader.
There's so much to get through about Jack the Ripper that this needed a lot of research and then I came across this story that I'd never heard before that just totally gripped me. So it starts off with a few hauntings that then we cover one of the most significant events in the recent history of London so lets crack on with it!Please follow, comment, like and share The Monday Night Revue with your friends. You can email the show at themondaynightrevue@gmail.com or find us on social media @themondaynightrevue.Our website is https://themondaynightrevue.blogspot.com/ If you want to support me further you can check out The Monday Night Revue on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/themondaynightrevue where you can get all episodes ad free, minisodes, discount on merch and moreAll episodes written and edited by Corinna Harrod with support from Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica HolmesMusic is The Mooche 1928 recording by Duke Ellington
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What you'll learn in this episode: What material culture is, and how we can understand history through its lens Why people tend to save their shoes even if they don't wear them How high heels relate to women's sense of power—or powerlessness Why Colonial-era shoe and breeches buckles are still a popular jewelry material How the Colonial shoe industry can help us understand northern complicity in the slave trade About Kimberly Alexander Dr. Kimberly Alexander teaches museum studies, material culture, American history and New Hampshire history in the History Department of the University of New Hampshire. She has held curatorial positions at several New England museums, including the MIT Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum and Strawbery Banke. Her most recent book, entitled "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era" traces the history of early Anglo-American footwear from the 1740s through the 1790s (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Dr. Alexander was Andrew Oliver Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society (2016-2017) and is guest curator of “Fashioning the New England Family,” (October 2018- April 2019) at MHS. Her companion book, "Fashioning the New England Family," was published in 2019. Additional Resources: Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era https://pwb02mw.press.jhu.edu/title/treasures-afoot Fashioning the New England Family https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5368 Photos: Treasures Afoot - book stack with c. 1780s silk satin shoe, made in Boston, MA Silver and paste stone shoe buckles, c. mid-18th century, French or English; in original 3shagreen, silk lined case. Collection of the author. Silver thread embroidery with spangles. Collection of the author. Advertisement for gold lace, 1734 James Davis, shoemaker, near Aldgate, London, c. 1760s, Courtesy Metropolitan Museum, public domain. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/112645 Transcript As an architectural historian with a relatively small shoe collection, Professor Kimberly Alexander didn't anticipate becoming an expert on Georgian shoes. But when she encountered a pair of mid-18th century shoes with a curious label, she quickly realized the potential that shoes have to help us understand history and material culture. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about the commonalities between shoes and jewelry, why shoes are a powerful way for women to express themselves, and how the historical shoe industry can help us understand the Colonia era in America. Read the episode transcript below. Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. Today, while we're still talking about jewelry, we're looking at it from a different angle. My guest is Kimberly Alexander, author of “Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era.” Kimberly is a historian and Professor of Material and Museum Culture at the University of New Hampshire. We'll hear all about her own journey as well as some of the history she tells of shoes in early America. Kimberly, welcome to the program. Kimberly: Thank you so much for inviting me, Sharon. I'm very excited to talk to you today about something that's been a fairly consuming interest and passion for quite some time, so thank you. Sharon: I'm so glad to have you, and it has been. I was just rereading your introduction and acknowledgements. You say you've been doing this for the past eight years, so that's quite a journey. Can you tell us what material culture is and how you got into this study? It's so interesting that you're a professor. Kimberly: I'd be happy to do that. Material culture, in its broadest terms, is any item, artifact, object that is created by human endeavor, by human hands. It covers a broad swath of materials, from the work of indigenous peoples with beads and ceramics to shoemakers, which is where I've spent a tremendous amount of my interest and time, but also those who produce textiles, glass, furniture, paintings. All of those would be examples of a human endeavor to create an object. If you think about the early cave paintings and petroglyphs, that's also part of a creative process which involves a human endeavor to create an object or a story. As we continue to explore these ideas of material culture, what I'm particularly interested in is the ability of material artifacts and objects to tell stories that are wrapped up in these elements of human endeavor. I think stories stay with us in ways that other types of information don't always, because we can relate to it; we can put a hook on it. We can understand something more about someone else's perspective or point of view from the study of material culture. I teach material culture and museum studies and these very much go hand-in-hand throughout public history. My own journey was an interesting one. I completed my master's and my Ph.D. in art history with a focus in architectural history. Some people who've known me for a long time are curious as to how I got from being an architectural historian to writing a book about Georgian shoes, and it's actually not as surprising as you might think. I worked as a curator at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, where I was curator of architecture and design. From there I went to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, and then to the Strawbery Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It was at Strawbery that I worked not only with buildings, but also archeological finds and what they would tell us about the buildings themselves and human habitations. I worked with a wide of variety of different types of collections, and I found that it was more of a way that you envision the world around you. For me, if you think of a shoe as needing to support someone in their daily activities for a special event, it's not that much different to think about how a skyscraper works. We need to have a good foundation on which to build. For me, it's been a natural evolution. The shoe that got me started on this sojourn, if you will, is the one that's on the front cover of my book. It's in the collection at the Strawbery Banke Museum. It is a mid-18th century Georgian shoe that's been quite well worn, seen a lot of damage through time and wear, but inside was pasted a simple paper label and it read, “Rideout and Davis Shoemakers near Aldgate in London.” That made me immediately wonder, “How did this shoe end up in this collection in Portsmouth, New Hampshire? What was its journey?” That's really what sent me on this eight-year—and I'm still working on it even though the book's published, so now I'm up to 10 or 11 years on this topic, but that was the question that I started with. How did people acquire shoes and why were they saved? How was this shoe saved for all this time? I found over the course of my research there's a lot more relevance even to how we organize today's lives. You might keep a pair of shoes that you wore to run a marathon or that you wore to get married or for your first job interview. You may never wear them again, but they're small, they're portable and they are infused with some fiber of you and your experience. That's what makes shoes so exciting. Sharon: That's really interesting. I'm thinking about the parallels between that and antique jewelry. As I've been culling my own collection, I look and say, “I may never wear that again, but I bought it here and I want to keep it as a keepsake.” I was looking at a piece I bought in Cuba and thought, “I may never wear it again, but it's the only thing I've really bought from Cuba.” Kimberly: Right. Sharon: Why do people keep shoes? They're small, they're portable and they have memories, but why do they love shoes so much? Kimberly: That is an interesting question. I had the chance to do some work with the Currier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire, about five or six years ago. They were hosting an exhibition that originated in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. “On Killer Heels” was the name of the exhibition—a fabulous show—but one of the things they did at the Currier was put out notebooks for women to write about their experiences with shoes. One notebook was “What were your best experiences?” or “What shoes do you remember?” and the other one was about shoes and feminism and wearing high heels. I went through them and eventually I hope, with the help of the Currier, to publish an article about it, because it's really quite interesting. Women who wrote about high heels in many cases wrote about them as being part of how they perceive themselves in power. Some women did see them this way as well as something that was uncomfortable that they were forced to wear at a certain time in their lives. Other women saw them as something that was part of their role as a professional in a male-dominated world. One woman, for example, wrote that she loved her three-inch heels with her business suits because everybody could hear her coming; they knew she was on her way and people scampered to find something to do. She also said, “It put me on this eye level with men in a way that, if I wasn't wearing heels, I wouldn't be.” That was one example that I thought was really interesting. Another example from a woman of roughly the same age talked about the fact that she had foot problems and had to turn in her high heels for flats because they were uncomfortable. This is all paraphrasing, but she said, “The change-over to flats made me feel invisible, like I'd given something up. I was wearing shoes like my mother or grandmother would wear.” I don't know if I really answered your question with these few examples, but I think shoes mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. As we're moving through this Covid year-and-a-half pandemic, I think shoes have taken on an even different role again, as has fashion. People are used to their soft clothes. I was reading something recently on Instagram where somebody said, “Oh, I can't believe I have to go to a meeting in person and put on hard pants.” I think the issue of levels of comfort has changed. They were already changed; I think they changed even more in this pandemic era. But, why do women love shoes? Any number of different reasons, and I've spoken to hundreds of women because I find it a fascinating topic. By nature, you might not know this, but I'm actually a somewhat shy person; I have a lot of social anxiety. Once I started working on shoes, I found I could always ask a question about shoes, and everybody piles on and I don't need to continue saying much more. I guess everybody has something, and in these notebooks from the Currier, there were these incredibly detailed responses to people responding to their worst experience in shoes. There was one young woman who wrote about going to this college party in her Candies, which were these wooden shoes, terribly uncomfortable, but they were all the rage as I recall. She had hot pink Candies with open toes. She just loved them and she knew she looked like a million bucks, but she ended up with the biggest blisters on her feet. I was an “I didn't care because I knew I looked great” kind of thing. There's a lot of self-image, for some people, wrapped up in something that seems as mundane as shoes. The pair of shoes that I've kept out of my own collection and that I've carried with me—I grew up in Maryland; I'm now in New Hampshire—is a pair of Nikes from when I was on the cross-country team. I started at a private school, St. James, for my last two years of high school. I couldn't even run the length of a football field. By the end of the semester, I was running five-milers and competing competitively. Those Nikes were symbolic of something really important, and I still have them. They are falling apart, but I still have them. What people decide to collect is also really interesting in terms of what people collect and save and the stories that go with those. Sharon: That's interesting. I'm not sure I have any shoes that I've saved. I've tossed them out and I might have had a sentimental pang, but I don't think I have anything I've saved. I especially did not save from decades ago my three-inch heels, which I can't even imagine. When I see women walking on those now, I'm like, “Oh, my god, how did I ever do that?” The shoes you focus on, you focus on the Colonial Era in America. Why is that, especially because you're talking about shoes that came from London? Kimberly: What it brought up for me, when I first started looking at the labels in women's shoes from London, is that British Americans, in the time before the Revolution, there was a huge consumer culture revolution. You still conceived of yourself as British, so you wanted to be stylish as you would have been back home, not out on the periphery somewhere. So, you have these shoemakers in London who are exporting thousands and thousands of pairs of shoes to the colonies of all different types, from very, very high-end, some of which I show in my book, to examples for those who are not as—pardon the pun—well-heeled. The idea of this reliance on the market also meant there were shoes being made for everyday people and everyday wearers. In the book, I talk a good bit about the growth of the shoe industry starting particularly in Lynn, Massachusetts, and the switch during the Revolution. There's this pivotal decade from 1760 to the 1770s where Americans start saying, “Look, don't be buying your shoes from Britain. Why are you going to be sending your money to the Crown and to British merchants and shoemakers? Why aren't you supporting your local shoemaker and local businesses and putting money in the coffers of your neighbors?” It becomes a huge political issue, and we even seen Ben Franklin talking about that during the Stamp Act controversy, where he says that Americans are going to hold onto their clothes until they can make themselves new ones. Even something that might seem as straightforward as shoes becomes highly politicized during this time period. All of this was of tremendous interest to me, but part of the reason I selected this time period and these shoes is that they are handmade—this is all obviously before the advent of machine sewing—and it also gave me a chance to talk about women's voices, women's perspectives that had previously been unheard. We read so much about the founding fathers and a few elite women, but what about the everyday person, the everywoman, everyman? Using shoes was a way I could talk about women who we otherwise would never have heard of. We would just know when they were born and when they died and possibly that they had a child, because that's how the shoes came to us. It was sort of a reverse creating a genealogy or a biography and trying to give women a voice they didn't have, because I had an object I could work with. Sharon: Whatever you said brought to mind the fact that the pictures, the photos in here are just beautiful. I want to say the name of the book again, “Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era” and tell everybody listening that it's a beautiful book and an easy read. It's history, but it's a very easy, interesting read, especially if you have any interest in shoes. We also talked about the fact that with jewelry, taking something like antique shoe buckles and transforming them into bracelets or other pieces of jewelry has become so popular. Why do you think that is? Kimberly: First, I do want to give a plug to my publisher. It's Johns Hopkins University Press, if any of you are interested in the book. There are over a hundred illustrations in the book, most of which have never been seen before, that were taken specifically for this project. I have a huge debt of gratitude to 30 different museum collections around the world, so thank you for bringing up the visual qualities. It was a really exciting opportunity to be able to have that many color illustrations. Back to your question about shoe buckles, for one thing, you didn't have to have a pair of buckles for every pair of shoes; you could interchange some. Again, it goes back to things that you can save easily. You get a lot of pavé stone buckles more so than gemstones, although very, very rich people—the Victoria & Albert has a pair of shoe buckles, I think they were Russian in origin, that have actual sapphires and diamonds and rubies. I mean, wow. But what most people had would have been pavé stones that would have been set in silver or some other metal. Then they move onto leather. One of the biggest things that happens is that there were so many buckles because you had shoe buckles for men and women. You also had breeches buckles for men, which would go at their knees for their breeches. You actually have a pretty large number of buckles which can be reused. By looking at the size, you can generally determine whether they were breeches buckles or shoe buckles, but that's often a cataloguing error that you find about what the pieces were. A small breeches buckle, for example, can be wonderfully remade into a pin if you've got the pair. They're very small. I'm sorry. We're doing this over the phone and I'm doing hand gestures— Sharon: No, no. Kimberly: At any rate, they are smaller, so they're very easy to convert into jewelry. They're easy to save. You can pick them up online everywhere from eBay to Etsy. Now, the other thing is that there was a huge Georgian revival of shoes, of course, in the 1910s and 1920s, and you start having shoes that either have attached shoe buckles or occasionally are using shoe buckles again. So, you have a wide expanse of this sort of shoe jewelry, if you will, and it's not just buckles; there were also shoe roses and flowers, things you could attach to your slippers to spiff them up. The idea of reusing these objects, the way people do with silk ribbon flowers, which appear on so many 18th century and early 20th century gowns, makes a tremendous amount of sense. I would say there are certainly as many pieces of jewelry that have been made from buckles as buckles that actually survived. Sharon: I never realized there were breeches buckles. I guess it's all lumped together in a sense. Kimberly: The breeches buckles were smaller, and they would have attached to the knee tabs for men's breeches. A man could have both breeches buckles and shoe buckles, and then occasionally you'll see trends in the 19th and 20th centuries of buckles being used as hat ornaments and things like that. The versatility, I think, is probably what has kept them around. Plus, anytime you're dealing with shoes, you're dealing with the fragility of textiles and that's a big thing. Sharon: I'll have to look more closely next time I look at what I think is a shoe buckle and say, “Oh, it's possible it's a breeches buckle.” It's interesting when you talk about the trends, because in the past few years it's been pearls. You've seen pearls in heels, and I think you have a couple of pairs of shoes where there are lots of rhinestones. Kimberly: Yeah, if you want to take the idea of jewelry as it connects to footwear, many of the 18th century—well, 17th and 18th century—shoes were embroidered with metallic threads. You actually have real gold spun around a linen thread, which is then woven into the fabric of the shoes. You end up with this amazing amount of gold on your foot. You've got the shine—and again, this is largely elite wearers—but you have brocaded metallic threads in a shoe. Then you've got a shoe buckle. Hose and stockings often will have down the side of the leg what was known as a clock, which might be done in metallic threads. So, you also have precious metals being used as part of the textile process. Sharon: It's interesting to me that when you describe material culture, it's such a broad subject and you homed in on shoes, and then even more specifically a certain period, the Georgian Era, the Colonial Era. Are you working on something now? What else is on your mind? Kimberly: I have a book coming out this fall based on an exhibition I was very fortunate to curate at the Massachusetts Historical Society which is called “Fashioning the New England Family.” It looks at a wide variety of textiles from the 17th century, from what is known as a buff coat, a lightweight military—well, relatively speaking—coat from the 1630s, up through pieces in the early 20th century based on their collection. What I'm really interested in is this idea of storytelling, of reading textiles like text. What can you discern? Everything from why they were maintained to how they were made, and it's astonishing the things we've been able to uncover. As far as shoes go, I've been looking at issues of northern complicity in the shoe trade. Around the time of the Revolution, a number of shoe manufacturers in New England basically blossom from doing several hundred pairs of shoes to doing thousands of pairs of shoes. There's one company in particular that I found during my research—I think I talk about it in the very end of my book—that started shipping thousands and thousands of shoes and I thought, “Well, that's odd in this three-year time.” As it turned out, they were selling—the coded language was “for the southern trade” or “the Indies trade”—but essentially, they were selling shoes to enslaved field workers in the South. The coded language was “coarse, sturdy, cheap,” and so on. When I started researching where the shoes were shipped, they were being shipped to Baltimore, to Norfolk, to Charleston, in this case from Salem and Boston. There are entire towns in New England that owe their existence and their lucrative businesses to being part of the slave trade. These things are true in the textile mills as well, but I've been focusing on shoes. This is very coded language, and I've been able to locate a few pairs of shoes that were actually made for enslaved workers, and we have letters from enslaved workers who talk about how uncomfortable those northern shoes were. They preferred in some cases to go barefoot; they were that uncomfortable. So, I'm working on that now as well as another publication. Sharon: Wow! I look forward to seeing that. It sounds very interesting, and it really makes you think in terms of how they were supporting abolition and at the same time shipping the shoes down, right? Kimberly: Right. You realize just how much these are no longer separate economies. It's a national economy. They're sending cotton up from the South to the North where it's being processed into clothing and then being sent back down to the South or being sent to customers. It's really complicated and some amazing scholarship is being done in this area. Sharon: As you're talking about the shoes and how you're telling history through shoes, it makes me think about how hard it is to describe to people when you say you really love jewelry. They think you love big diamonds, but there's so much history attached to jewelry, why it was done in a certain metal and at a certain time. There's a whole journey behind it. Kimberly: Yes, exactly. People assume I have a big shoe collection myself. I don't. I have a few pairs of shoes that I really like, and people give me shoes now. For my classes, I've gotten some really fancy designer shoes that people picked up at yard sales. I use the textiles I have and the shoes I have in my classes so that students can actually hold things, touch things, examine them and learn from them, because you can't walk into a museum and say, “Hey, let me hold onto that 1785 pair of silk pumps.” Sharon: Right. I look forward to seeing your book when it comes out. 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Martine Wright is a survivor of the 7/7 London terrorist bombings. Sixteen years ago today, she was travelling on a Circle Line tube to Aldgate station on the morning of 7th July 2005, when a suicide bomber sitting three feet away from her set off an explosion that would change her life forever. She lost both of her legs and was in a coma for 10 days after which she underwent a year of intensive rehab and multiple surgeries. Astonishingly, Martine went on to become an international sitting volleyball player and represented the Great Britain's women's team at the 2012 Paralympics in London. This is her extraordinary story. She joins me to talk about resilience, living loss, experiencing an able-bodied world as a disabled woman, fertility, grief and how she believes catastrophic life-changes can have positive outcomes. Martine is one of the most inspiring, hopeful, strong and brilliant people I've ever had the pleasure of interviewing. You do not want to miss this episode. * You can read more in Martine's memoir Unbroken * My new novel, Magpie, is out on 2nd September. I'd love it if you felt like pre-ordering as it really helps authors! You can do that here. * How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you. To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com * Social Media: Elizabeth Day @elizabday How To Fail @howtofailpod Martine Wright @martine_wright
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On the third episode of Our House, Helen talks to Paul Wilson and Danny Jack. Paul is the Community Engagement Manager at EastendHomes and Danny is a chef who runs a catering business from his commercial kitchen in South London. They talk about their joint project, Food for Aldgate - a food bank and kitchen determined to deliver nutritious, chef cooked meals to vulnerable, elderly residents during these challenging times. Food for Aldgate is seeking funding to continue sending healthy, cooked meals and kindness to those who need it most. If you would like to donate to the Food for Aldgate crowdfunding page, you can do so here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/food-for-aldgateThe crowdfunding ends on 1st March and so please send any donation as soon as you can. If you liked this podcast, please rate it, leave a review or share with a friend!Want to see some BTS footage and be the first to know about new updates? Follow us on instagram @ourhouse.podcast
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The Revd Katharine Rumens, Rector of St Giles Cripplegate in the Barbican reflects on fashion, female vicars and the fashion of the City, and the Revd Laura Jorgensen, Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate talks about the history and background of church vestments.
In the early years of the twentieth century, London was a city of opposites. The affluent west of the city was prosperous and wealthy, but in contrast the east was an area of poverty, crime and disease. Life expectancy was low, and the streets were filled with the homeless, the destitute and the sick.When the American author Jack London ventured into the East End in the summer of 1902 to research the hopeless living conditions so typical of the area, he was to witness such sights as the cramped living conditions in shabby Frying Pan Alley, the revolting menial tasks that inmates of the Whitechapel casual ward carried out to pay for a dismal bed and a frugal meal of bread and ‘skilly’. In his book “The People of the Abyss”, a written account of his experiences, he relayed the tale of Dan Cullen, a resident of one of Whitechapel’s municipal dwellings, whose worsening health had forced him to move into the old Temperance Hospital, near Euston station. Jack had witnessed the sorry sight of the homeless sheltering under Tower Bridge and others trying to sleep by the steps of Christ Church in Spitalfields. He had tasted coffee and tea that was close in appearance to dirty dishwater and bore little resemblance to anything his readers might have drunk, and he had seen desperately hungry men and women pawing their way through the filthiest of meat scraps outside a butcher’s shop in Aldgate. In short, he had, if only briefly, lived the life of one of the people of the abyss, and had witnessed the horrendous life that circumstance had forced them to endure.As well as his vivid written descriptions of the East End, Jack London also photographed a considerable number of evocative scenes to complement the text. These well-known images have been frequently reprinted over the years, often to illustrate books about Jack the Ripper and the East End in general.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/houseofmysteryradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Subscribe to the YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Conspiracy theorist ‘stole truck to avoid being late for meeting with space aliens' Link: https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/28/conspiracy-theorist-stole-truck-to-avoid-being-late-for-meeting-with-space-aliens-13339711/ A conspiracy theorist claimed that he had stolen a truck because he didn't want to be late for a meeting with space aliens, police said. Bryce Jerald Dixon allegedly told cops in New Fork, Utah that he needed the truck so that he could ‘get to the colosseum to get on a flight with alien diplomats.' following Sunday's alleged theft. Before driving all the way to this ‘colosseum,' Dixon had a change of heart and drove it back from the 7 Eleven store where the car was first stolen, police said. Dixon told police that he felt bad about stealing the red pickup truck but he continued to talk about how the aliens needed him for a meeting. The truck's owner had stopped into a 7 Eleven with the keys inside when the theft took place, court documents said. The truck owner allegedly punched Dixon in the face when the alien fanatic tried to slip past officers. He was taken to the hospital before being booked into the Utah County Jail, where police said he attempted to escape custody three times. He is charged with suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and three counts of attempted escape. ‘What is the alien agenda?' asks Courier reader who witnessed ‘air battle between two UFOs' 40 years ago Link: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/uk-world/1540597/feature-what-is-the-alien-agenda-asks-courier-reader-who-witnessed-air-battle-between-two-ufos-40-years-ago/ Australian investigator Phil Tindale, who witnessed an “air battle between two UFOs” 40 years ago and is interested in Scottish sightings, explains why he is convinced we are not alone. Australian man Phil Tindale has good reason to have a strong interest in UFOs. As 10-year-olds in the South Australian town of Aldgate just over 40 years ago, he and his twin brother Rob witnessed a “hostile chase between two highly advanced craft resulting in one of those craft crashing into a tree”. The crash was reported by a third witness who was able to have a close look at the craft which resembled an “eight metre long yellow speed boat from it's under side”. However, by the time police arrived, the object had disappeared leaving only unexplained broken branches. Phil recently contacted The Courier from Australia after reading a Courier feature online about renowned Scottish UFO investigator and self-confessed UFO sceptic Malcolm Robinson who believes that aliens have almost certainly visited Tayside and Fife. Four decades on from his own experience, Malcolm says he is “100%” convinced what he saw was extra-terrestrial, and not military. But he also believes the question is no longer “are we alone”. Instead we must ask “what is the alien agenda”? “It's a question that we have ignored for the past 70 years,” says Phil. “Reported UFO cases date back to the 1500's when a township in Germany witnessed a battle between celestial objects which was reported in the broadsheet journals of Nuremberg. “From the 1940's a new and increased wave of alien activity began. “Pilots reported seeing strange spherical craft following them into battle during WW2. “Then in 1961 came the first reported alien abduction. “Betty and Barney Hill provided compelling and consistent testimonies of the incident which occurred along a roadside late at night. “Will this new reality change our view towards each other, can we learn to appreciate the creatures that we share our planet with, and appreciate the value of our own beautiful Earth?” CIA hired PSYCHIC to ‘find' ancient civilisation of ‘tall, thin aliens' on Mars, bizarre docs reveal Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12738604/cia-hired-psychic-ancient-civilisation-aliens-mars/ THE CIA hired a psychic to look for an alien civilisation on Mars, it has been revealed. The wacky experiment, conducted in 1984, was carried out with an unnamed man who claimed to be able to "see" the surface of the planet from a distance using his mind. The attempt was reportedly part of Project Stargate, a US Army unit set up in 1978 to investigate the potential use of psychic phenomena in the military and elsewhere. The project cost $20million and reportedly enlisted the likes of celebrity psychic and famed spoon bender Uri Geller. The CIA released the records from the project online in 2017, and details of the Mars experiment were uncovered by British investigator Nick Redfern. The files reportedly describe how a "remote viewer" was given "special coordinates" for the test. He then described a number of shelters visible on the surface of the planet. “Different chambers…but they're almost stripped of any kind of furnishings or anything," he said "It's like ah…strictly [a] functional place for sleeping or that's not a good word, hibernations, some form. "I can't, I get real raw inputs, storms, savage storm, and sleeping through storms." 'THEY'RE DYING' Asked to move closer to the creatures, he then said they appeared to be dying out because of environmental change. "They're ancient people. They're dying. It's past their time or age," he said. "They're very philosophic about it. They're just looking for a way to survive and they just can't. "They're…ah…evidently was a…a group or party of them that went to find…ah…new place to live. LUNAR LURKERS Alien life could be hiding underground on the MOON as Harvard geniuses say it's time to start drilling Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/12790119/alien-life-moon-drill-underground-water-lakes/ ALIEN life could be lurking in deep underwater lakes on the Moon, scientists believe. The Moon's surface is inhospitable – a rocky wasteland with no air to breathe. And the absence of surface water on the Moon makes matters even bleaker. But the same might not be true below ground, where high pressure could create a life-friendly environment. Liquid water could exist in these deep areas of the Moon, far below the lunar surface – according to top space scientists from Harvard and the Florida Institute of Technology. "Surface water requires an atmosphere to maintain a finite pressure, without which liquid water cannot exist," said Dr Manasvi Lingam, the lead author on the project. "However, when one moves to deeper regions, the upper layers exert pressure and thus permit the existence of liquid water in principle. "For instance, Mars does not currently have any longstanding bodies of water on its surface, but it is known to have subsurface lakes." Scientists will now need to drill down below the surface to hunt for signs of water – and ultimately, life. But it's not easy: the Moon is huge. The good news is that there's hope for such missions. "Drilling might be possible in the context of the Artemis program to establish a sustainable base on the Moon by 2024," said Dr Avi Loeb, of Harvard University. "One can imagine robots and heavy machinery that will drill deep under the lunar surface in search of life, just as we do in searching for oil on Earth." Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! 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Subscribe to the YouTube Channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA Join the Episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Conspiracy theorist ‘stole truck to avoid being late for meeting with space aliens' Link: https://metro.co.uk/2020/09/28/conspiracy-theorist-stole-truck-to-avoid-being-late-for-meeting-with-space-aliens-13339711/ A conspiracy theorist claimed that he had stolen a truck because he didn't want to be late for a meeting with space aliens, police said. Bryce Jerald Dixon allegedly told cops in New Fork, Utah that he needed the truck so that he could ‘get to the colosseum to get on a flight with alien diplomats.' following Sunday's alleged theft. Before driving all the way to this ‘colosseum,' Dixon had a change of heart and drove it back from the 7 Eleven store where the car was first stolen, police said. Dixon told police that he felt bad about stealing the red pickup truck but he continued to talk about how the aliens needed him for a meeting. The truck's owner had stopped into a 7 Eleven with the keys inside when the theft took place, court documents said. The truck owner allegedly punched Dixon in the face when the alien fanatic tried to slip past officers. He was taken to the hospital before being booked into the Utah County Jail, where police said he attempted to escape custody three times. He is charged with suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle and three counts of attempted escape. ‘What is the alien agenda?' asks Courier reader who witnessed ‘air battle between two UFOs' 40 years ago Link: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/uk-world/1540597/feature-what-is-the-alien-agenda-asks-courier-reader-who-witnessed-air-battle-between-two-ufos-40-years-ago/ Australian investigator Phil Tindale, who witnessed an “air battle between two UFOs” 40 years ago and is interested in Scottish sightings, explains why he is convinced we are not alone. Australian man Phil Tindale has good reason to have a strong interest in UFOs. As 10-year-olds in the South Australian town of Aldgate just over 40 years ago, he and his twin brother Rob witnessed a “hostile chase between two highly advanced craft resulting in one of those craft crashing into a tree”. The crash was reported by a third witness who was able to have a close look at the craft which resembled an “eight metre long yellow speed boat from it's under side”. However, by the time police arrived, the object had disappeared leaving only unexplained broken branches. Phil recently contacted The Courier from Australia after reading a Courier feature online about renowned Scottish UFO investigator and self-confessed UFO sceptic Malcolm Robinson who believes that aliens have almost certainly visited Tayside and Fife. Four decades on from his own experience, Malcolm says he is “100%” convinced what he saw was extra-terrestrial, and not military. But he also believes the question is no longer “are we alone”. Instead we must ask “what is the alien agenda”? “It's a question that we have ignored for the past 70 years,” says Phil. “Reported UFO cases date back to the 1500's when a township in Germany witnessed a battle between celestial objects which was reported in the broadsheet journals of Nuremberg. “From the 1940's a new and increased wave of alien activity began. “Pilots reported seeing strange spherical craft following them into battle during WW2. “Then in 1961 came the first reported alien abduction. “Betty and Barney Hill provided compelling and consistent testimonies of the incident which occurred along a roadside late at night. “Will this new reality change our view towards each other, can we learn to appreciate the creatures that we share our planet with, and appreciate the value of our own beautiful Earth?” CIA hired PSYCHIC to ‘find' ancient civilisation of ‘tall, thin aliens' on Mars, bizarre docs reveal Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12738604/cia-hired-psychic-ancient-civilisation-aliens-mars/ THE CIA hired a psychic to look for an alien civilisation on Mars, it has been revealed. The wacky experiment, conducted in 1984, was carried out with an unnamed man who claimed to be able to "see" the surface of the planet from a distance using his mind. The attempt was reportedly part of Project Stargate, a US Army unit set up in 1978 to investigate the potential use of psychic phenomena in the military and elsewhere. The project cost $20million and reportedly enlisted the likes of celebrity psychic and famed spoon bender Uri Geller. The CIA released the records from the project online in 2017, and details of the Mars experiment were uncovered by British investigator Nick Redfern. The files reportedly describe how a "remote viewer" was given "special coordinates" for the test. He then described a number of shelters visible on the surface of the planet. “Different chambers…but they're almost stripped of any kind of furnishings or anything," he said "It's like ah…strictly [a] functional place for sleeping or that's not a good word, hibernations, some form. "I can't, I get real raw inputs, storms, savage storm, and sleeping through storms." 'THEY'RE DYING' Asked to move closer to the creatures, he then said they appeared to be dying out because of environmental change. "They're ancient people. They're dying. It's past their time or age," he said. "They're very philosophic about it. They're just looking for a way to survive and they just can't. "They're…ah…evidently was a…a group or party of them that went to find…ah…new place to live. LUNAR LURKERS Alien life could be hiding underground on the MOON as Harvard geniuses say it's time to start drilling Link: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/12790119/alien-life-moon-drill-underground-water-lakes/ ALIEN life could be lurking in deep underwater lakes on the Moon, scientists believe. The Moon's surface is inhospitable – a rocky wasteland with no air to breathe. And the absence of surface water on the Moon makes matters even bleaker. But the same might not be true below ground, where high pressure could create a life-friendly environment. Liquid water could exist in these deep areas of the Moon, far below the lunar surface – according to top space scientists from Harvard and the Florida Institute of Technology. "Surface water requires an atmosphere to maintain a finite pressure, without which liquid water cannot exist," said Dr Manasvi Lingam, the lead author on the project. "However, when one moves to deeper regions, the upper layers exert pressure and thus permit the existence of liquid water in principle. "For instance, Mars does not currently have any longstanding bodies of water on its surface, but it is known to have subsurface lakes." Scientists will now need to drill down below the surface to hunt for signs of water – and ultimately, life. But it's not easy: the Moon is huge. The good news is that there's hope for such missions. "Drilling might be possible in the context of the Artemis program to establish a sustainable base on the Moon by 2024," said Dr Avi Loeb, of Harvard University. "One can imagine robots and heavy machinery that will drill deep under the lunar surface in search of life, just as we do in searching for oil on Earth." Show Stuff Join the episode after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com Mail can be sent to: UFO Buster Radio Network PO BOX 769905 San Antonio TX 78245 For Skype Users: bosscrawler
In this episode Laura Jorgensen, Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate explores the life of Mary Fillis, baptised at St Botolph's in 1597 and Arani Sen, Rector of St Olave's Hart Street reflects on the life of the Right Revd Samuel Crowther.
PICTURES OF THE ABYSS will be published in A4 hardback, 142 landscape pages in full colour throughout, in late September 2020. Pre-order a limited edition copy, signed by the author and individually numbered. Deadline 31st August 2020.In the early years of the twentieth century, London was a city of opposites. The affluent west of the city was prosperous and wealthy, but in contrast the east was an area of poverty, crime and disease. Life expectancy was low, and the streets were filled with the homeless, the destitute and the sick.When the American author Jack London ventured into the East End in the summer of 1902 to research the hopeless living conditions so typical of the area, he was to witness such sights as the cramped living conditions in shabby Frying Pan Alley, the revolting menial tasks that inmates of the Whitechapel casual ward carried out to pay for a dismal bed and a frugal meal of bread and ‘skilly’. In his book “The People of the Abyss”, a written account of his experiences, he relayed the tale of Dan Cullen, a resident of one of Whitechapel’s municipal dwellings, whose worsening health had forced him to move into the old Temperance Hospital, near Euston station. Jack had witnessed the sorry sight of the homeless sheltering under Tower Bridge and others trying to sleep by the steps of Christ Church in Spitalfields. He had tasted coffee and tea that was close in appearance to dirty dishwater and bore little resemblance to anything his readers might have drunk, and he had seen desperately hungry men and women pawing their way through the filthiest of meat scraps outside a butcher’s shop in Aldgate. In short, he had, if only briefly, lived the life of one of the people of the abyss, and had witnessed the horrendous life that circumstance had forced them to endure.As well as his vivid written descriptions of the East End, Jack London also photographed a considerable number of evocative scenes to complement the text. These well-known images have been frequently reprinted over the years, often to illustrate books about Jack the Ripper and the East End in general.But where exactly were these photographs taken? Jack London gives very little detail about the locations, choosing to caption the images vaguely as “A house to let” or the similarly ambiguous “Where the children grow up”. What do these obscure places look like today, and is there anything left of the old workhouses and dwellings that Jack London captured in his photos.The answers to these questions are revealed in “PICTURES OF THE ABYSS”, a new photographic coffee-table style book by Andrew Firth. Published by Mango Books, it follows a similar format to his highly acclaimed book “Ripperland”, with the result of several years research presented as a series of ‘then and now’ photo-montages with accompanying maps and modern-day comparison shots.By using high quality scans of the original photographs from the Jack London archives (including some rare or previously unpublished images), and then superimposing them into their modern-day equivalent scenes, photographer and graphic designer Andrew Firth has created a unique visual survey of what now remains of the old ‘Abyss’. The book contains over sixty photo-montages and over 150 colour and monochrome photographs of the scenes as they appear today. The book also features a foreword written by tour guide and author Richard Jones.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/house-of-mystery-true-crime-history. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode Sophia Ackland from All Hallows by the Tower reflects on the life of St Ethelburga and the role of health and spiritual care in the seventh century and today. Celeste, a member of the congregation at St Botolph without Aldgate talks about the enslaved African-American poet Phillis Wheatley, who was published at Aldgate.
This is Great British Bosses from Anything but Footy - the series where we profile the men and women responsible for running sport in this country - from grassroots participation to those medal moments at Olympic, Paralympic and elite level.In this episode, recorded remotely from three separate locations, Sue Storey - the CEO of Volleyball England joins us via Zoom from home to discuss how the volleyball community has been coping with lockdown and not being able to play their sport. Volleyball England has run a number of online initiatives during the past few months but is now eagerly awaiting Government advice on how indoor sports can resume playing.Sue only took over at Volleyball England in late 2019 and oversees the disciplines of Indoor Volleyball, Beach Volleyball and Sitting Volleyball in the country. Whilst she admits the chances of sending a GB team to take part in the Olympics is a long way off, she highlights the achievements of the Sitting Volleyball team and highlights the involvement of Martine Wright, who lost both her legs in the Aldgate underground explosion, on the 15th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London.She also notes that with Beach Volleyball on the programme for the next Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022, there is a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile of the sport. Although, she gives us few clues as to where Birmingham will stage the events, other than saying it will be another iconic location! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this podcast for Our City Together we're focusing on the women killed by 'the unnamed murderer' as we prefer to call the killer commonly known as Jack the Ripper. Although these murders are linked with Whitechapel, the women did not come from Whitechapel and had full lives before their untimely ends. Laura Jorgensen, Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate talks about Catherine Eddowes, killed in Mitre Square, and Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's Fleet Street, reflects on the life of Polly Nicholls who was born in her parish. We also hear from Josephine Knowles from Door of Hope, a project of Beyond the Streets, a charity working with women involved in prostitution on the City fringe.
One of the most popular toy stores in the Adelaide Hills is up for sale. (news/local-news/40-local-news/103573-magical-toy-store-up-for-sale-in-hills) After successfully running old fashioned store 'Greenhills of Aldgate (https://www.facebook.com/Greenhills-of-Aldgate-102196348100733/) ' for 15 years, Kaye and Malcolm Hill are ready to retire next year but would like someone else to take over the business rather than just shutting it for good. The pair join Jennie Lenman in this podcast to talk about the sale, their plans and to reflect on their career.
A play on the triumph and losses in performance and life. The Talent Tank podcast will navigate the inner workings of lifestyle, lives, family, teams, careers, programs, and technology in and around the offroad motorsports industry. What breeds success with your Talent Tank on full, failures when its on empty. From the journey to the Starting Line to take that Green Flag, on to exploring trials and tribulations on and off the track in pursuit of victorious achievement and the Checkered Flag.From across the pond, to close out this Spring 2020 season we have only the second Brit to grace The Talent Tank. We landed the dashingly handsome, almost James Bond 007'esc smooth talking linguist announcer for ULTRA4 Racing. As well as he's possibly the winning-est across all motorsport events he's competed in, none of other than the "Kingpin of Gigglepin", Jim Marsden @jim_gigglepin_marsden. Everything's on the table, from building furniture, working in the nightclubs, to figuring out how to wrench, being your own boss, winches, did we mention we talk winches specifically these dual motor crazy units Jim builds. Mix in some mudbog racing, numerous Ultra4 Europe Championships and the pilgrimage to Johnson Valley and how he got his break with a microphone in his hand to announcing for King of the Hammers and the Martelli Brothers The Mint400. After the Checkered Flag-The Sir John Cass School of Art, abbreviated as "The Cass" and nicknamed the Aldgate Bauhaus, is an art school in Aldgate, London that forms part of London Metropolitan University. It has a history stretching back to the 1800's via its various predecessor institutions. Learning through practice, playing with process and working with clients; students at the School gain real-world experience in both individual and collaborative projects, engaging with professionals, communities and companies. There is a strong emphasis in the teaching studios on socially engaged architecture, art and design applied to both local and global contexts. The many specialist facilities available to students include wood, metal and plastic workshops, darkrooms and digital manufacturing technology.Headshot provided by: Paolo BaraldiBrought to you by:Custom Splice www.customsplice.com for all of your recovery equipment needs, they are your one stop shop. Branik Motorsports Custom Machine www.branikmotorsports.com is a full-service machine shop with one off and production capabilities that prides themselves on quality, service and value.Magnitude Performance www.magnitudeperformance.com a Mast Motorsports Company www.mastmotorsports.com. Magnitude is a Made in the USA manufacturer of premium chrome silicon coil-over suspension springs.Please like & subscribe.https://thetalenttank.com/https://www.instagram.com/thetalenttank/https://www.facebook.com/thetalenttank/Insiders Grouphttps://www.facebook.com/groups/TheTalentTankInsiders/
Join the after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Netizens think they have spotted UFOs on the SpaceX live stream [WATCH] Link: https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/netizens-think-they-have-spotted-ufos-on-the-spacex-live-stream-watch/599680 This was the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from US soil in nine years and also the first time a new commercially developed space vehicle carried Americans to space. May 31, 2020, was the day when Elon Musk took a giant leap in his already illustrious career. His company SpaceX blasted off two astronauts into Earth's Orbit on Saturday at 3:22 pm ET (1:52 AM Sunday in India) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, both NASA astronauts, travelled to space in Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour built by SpaceX. But now, some netizens watching the SpaceX live stream reckon they have spotted something incredible. A bunch of viewers said they saw some unidentified flying objects in the live feed, that looked very different from the SpaceX rocket. In simple terms, many have said they spotted UFOs on the SpaceX live stream. One Twitter user shared a clip from the event and wrote: "Did y'all see the #ufo on camera today..... watch this!!! We just saw this!! This is us recording from our tv! #SpaceLaunchLIVE #SpaceX" Another user with the handle @holipori shared a picture from the live feed and circled what appears to be a tiny dot on the screen. “Was that a ufo or something? at time T+ 00:14:11. It was rising from under the clouds so fast!” the user wrote. Stafford is named as a UFO hotspot Link: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/staffordshire/stafford/2020/06/02/staffordshire-town-named-as-ufo-hotspot/ Nineteen UFO sightings were reported in Stafford in a 12-month period, according to new research. The old market town made the UK's top 10 list for UFO sightings - coming in at number six. The tally of sightings were revealed through Freedom of Information requests. That was the year that the UK Government decided to close its UFO desk at the Ministry of Defence - as officials said that, in 50 years, no evidence of a "potential threat" had been found. However there has been some interesting sightings connected with the borough by credible witnesses. In south Staffordshire, pilots flying from Halfpenny Green Airport, known as Bobbington Airport, reported seeing UFOs during a flight in February, 2019. One pilot reported being hit by a laser moments before the encounter. In 1988, a prominent UFO sighting occurred over Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, which was investigated by the MOD. Multiple witnesses reported seeing objects over the beauty spot. One described seeing two triangle-shaped objects making a faint sound and climbing vertically into the sky. Secret The most prominent UFO sighting in Shropshire is known as the Cosford Incident, which happened at RAF Cosford, in 1993. A large triangular craft was seen by an MOD police patrol at the airbase. Nick Pope, who headed the UFO desk at the time, said it was "among the best cases" in the MOD's archive, which consisted of 12,000 sightings. He believes it could have been investigated in a secret study by the Pentagon in the US. ‘Air battle between two UFOs was extra-terrestrial', claims Australian Courier reader who witnessed incident Link: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/1338308/air-battle-between-two-ufos-was-extra-terrestrial-claims-australian-courier-reader-who-witnessed-incident/ An Australian man has told The Courier how he witnessed what he can only describe as “an air battle between two UFOs” – which ended with one crashing to the ground. Phil Tindale got in touch to explain how as 10-year-olds in the South Australian town of Aldgate just over 40 years ago, he and his twin brother Rob witnessed a “hostile chase between two highly advanced craft resulting in one of those craft crashing into a tree”. Four decades on from his own experience, Phil says he is “100%” convinced what he saw was extra-terrestrial, and not military. “I had no real perspective on the UFO phenomenon, both in terms of scale or significance until the internet came about,” said Phil, who only recently began a process of sharing his information in order to move the conversation beyond the “believe it or not” debate. “It wasn't until I made contact with other witnesses and researched other peoples' reports that I realised these visitations are significant and very relevant to us. “This realisation is what prompted me to begin talking about it.” Phil explained how the incident unfolded at 9.30pm on Thursday February 7, 1980. His brother Rob called out from his bedroom, and, looking down the valley to the south-east of Adelaide, the then boys saw a bright yellow object “bobbing around” just above the tree line, about 1km away. After a few minutes, a second, slightly larger object appeared emitting a red light. In what he describes as almost cartoon-like motion, it “zoomed up” to the yellow object, stopped and reversed, then did it again “as if to prompt a reaction”. The same night, a local farmhand, 21-year-old Daryl Browne, reported seeing a “speedboat-shaped yellow thing” like a “half-moon” crash into some trees near the horse farm where he worked — in the exact area where the brothers last saw the object. Show Stuff Join the fan chat on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler
Join the after party on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP Netizens think they have spotted UFOs on the SpaceX live stream [WATCH] Link: https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/netizens-think-they-have-spotted-ufos-on-the-spacex-live-stream-watch/599680 This was the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from US soil in nine years and also the first time a new commercially developed space vehicle carried Americans to space. May 31, 2020, was the day when Elon Musk took a giant leap in his already illustrious career. His company SpaceX blasted off two astronauts into Earth's Orbit on Saturday at 3:22 pm ET (1:52 AM Sunday in India) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, both NASA astronauts, travelled to space in Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft named Endeavour built by SpaceX. But now, some netizens watching the SpaceX live stream reckon they have spotted something incredible. A bunch of viewers said they saw some unidentified flying objects in the live feed, that looked very different from the SpaceX rocket. In simple terms, many have said they spotted UFOs on the SpaceX live stream. One Twitter user shared a clip from the event and wrote: "Did y'all see the #ufo on camera today..... watch this!!! We just saw this!! This is us recording from our tv! #SpaceLaunchLIVE #SpaceX" Another user with the handle @holipori shared a picture from the live feed and circled what appears to be a tiny dot on the screen. “Was that a ufo or something? at time T+ 00:14:11. It was rising from under the clouds so fast!” the user wrote. Stafford is named as a UFO hotspot Link: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/staffordshire/stafford/2020/06/02/staffordshire-town-named-as-ufo-hotspot/ Nineteen UFO sightings were reported in Stafford in a 12-month period, according to new research. The old market town made the UK's top 10 list for UFO sightings - coming in at number six. The tally of sightings were revealed through Freedom of Information requests. That was the year that the UK Government decided to close its UFO desk at the Ministry of Defence - as officials said that, in 50 years, no evidence of a "potential threat" had been found. However there has been some interesting sightings connected with the borough by credible witnesses. In south Staffordshire, pilots flying from Halfpenny Green Airport, known as Bobbington Airport, reported seeing UFOs during a flight in February, 2019. One pilot reported being hit by a laser moments before the encounter. In 1988, a prominent UFO sighting occurred over Cannock Chase, in Staffordshire, which was investigated by the MOD. Multiple witnesses reported seeing objects over the beauty spot. One described seeing two triangle-shaped objects making a faint sound and climbing vertically into the sky. Secret The most prominent UFO sighting in Shropshire is known as the Cosford Incident, which happened at RAF Cosford, in 1993. A large triangular craft was seen by an MOD police patrol at the airbase. Nick Pope, who headed the UFO desk at the time, said it was "among the best cases" in the MOD's archive, which consisted of 12,000 sightings. He believes it could have been investigated in a secret study by the Pentagon in the US. ‘Air battle between two UFOs was extra-terrestrial', claims Australian Courier reader who witnessed incident Link: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/1338308/air-battle-between-two-ufos-was-extra-terrestrial-claims-australian-courier-reader-who-witnessed-incident/ An Australian man has told The Courier how he witnessed what he can only describe as “an air battle between two UFOs” – which ended with one crashing to the ground. Phil Tindale got in touch to explain how as 10-year-olds in the South Australian town of Aldgate just over 40 years ago, he and his twin brother Rob witnessed a “hostile chase between two highly advanced craft resulting in one of those craft crashing into a tree”. Four decades on from his own experience, Phil says he is “100%” convinced what he saw was extra-terrestrial, and not military. “I had no real perspective on the UFO phenomenon, both in terms of scale or significance until the internet came about,” said Phil, who only recently began a process of sharing his information in order to move the conversation beyond the “believe it or not” debate. “It wasn't until I made contact with other witnesses and researched other peoples' reports that I realised these visitations are significant and very relevant to us. “This realisation is what prompted me to begin talking about it.” Phil explained how the incident unfolded at 9.30pm on Thursday February 7, 1980. His brother Rob called out from his bedroom, and, looking down the valley to the south-east of Adelaide, the then boys saw a bright yellow object “bobbing around” just above the tree line, about 1km away. After a few minutes, a second, slightly larger object appeared emitting a red light. In what he describes as almost cartoon-like motion, it “zoomed up” to the yellow object, stopped and reversed, then did it again “as if to prompt a reaction”. The same night, a local farmhand, 21-year-old Daryl Browne, reported seeing a “speedboat-shaped yellow thing” like a “half-moon” crash into some trees near the horse farm where he worked — in the exact area where the brothers last saw the object. Show Stuff Join the fan chat on Discord! Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGP The Dark Horde Podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-dark-horde The Dark Horde, LLC – http://www.thedarkhorde.com Twitter @DarkHorde or https://twitter.com/HordeDark Support the podcast and shop @ http://shopthedarkhorde.com UBR Truth Seekers Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/216706068856746 UFO Buster Radio: https://www.facebook.com/UFOBusterRadio YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCggl8-aPBDo7wXJQ43TiluA To contact Manny: manny@ufobusterradio.com, or on Twitter @ufobusterradio Call the show anytime at (972) 290-1329 and leave us a message with your point of view, UFO sighting, and ghostly experiences or join the discussion on www.ufobusterradio.com For Skype Users: bosscrawler
This episode considers not just the architecture of the City Churches, but the spaces around them. Laura Jorgensen, Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate hosts the podcast. Laura Li, the Parish Administrator at St Andrew by the Wardrobe, talks about the origin of the curious name of the church, and its history, Katherine Hedderly, Vicar of All Hallows by the Tower and Nick Motteshed from St Katherine Cree talk about churchyards and open spaces and Katharine Rumens the Vicar of St Giles Cripplegate reflects on life in the Barbican during lockdown.
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In this episode which reflects on resilience and the City Churches during the Blitz, we hear from George Bush from St Mary le Bow and Arani Sen of St Olave's Hart Street. Laura Jorgensen talks about her predecessor at St Botolph without Aldgate who moved into the church during the Blitz to save the building from incendiary devices.
On Ascension Day, the Thursday forty days after Easter, many churches 'Beat the Bounds'. An ancient ceremony, clergy, young people, dignitaries and local people process around the boundaries of their parishes. In this episode we hear from three clergy in the City of London, Laura Jorgensen, Rector of St Botolph without Aldgate, Katherine Hedderly, Vicar of All Hallows by the Tower and Roger Hall, Chaplain to the Tower of London, about the origins and meaning of the ceremony.
On this day in Tudor history, 20th April 1578, Lady Mary Keys (née Grey), sister of Lady Jane Grey and wife of Thomas Keys, died at her home in the parish of St Botolph without Aldgate, London.Like her sisters, Mary had a sad life. Her secret marriage led to Elizabeth I imprisoning her and her husband, and they never saw each other again. Find out more about the tiny Mary who was described as "crook-backed", her marriage to a man who was said to be 6'8, and what happened to Mary and Thomas, in today's talk from Claire Ridgway, founder of the Tudor Society. Book recommendation: “The Sisters Who Would be Queen” by Leanda de Lisle. You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:https://youtu.be/amBA9_Ifjno Also on this day in Tudor history, 20th April 1534, Elizabeth Barton, the Nun of Kent, was executed for treason. Find out more about her, the visions she had concerning Henry VIII, and how she ended up being hanged, in last year’s video - https://youtu.be/rJNeSRcqIg0
STANDARD SEMANAL.- “Moment's Notice”.-JAZZ RECUERDO ANIVERSARIO.-Ronnie scott - the couriers of jazz!( & tubby hayes) (1958).-JAZZ ACTUALIDAD .- Ander Garcia Trio con su álbum “AMAHIRU” PROG.Nº 648.- Dos horas para el análisis y repaso a la historia y actualidad que generan esta música americana . Todo en el tono que acostumbra este programa, en dos secciones JAZZ ANIVERSARIO y JAZZ ACTUALIDAD importantes novedades y diferentes canales de comunicación que se ofrecerán al oyente. STANDARD SEMANAL.- “Moment's Notice” JAZZ RECUERDO ANIVERSARIO.-Ronnie scott - the couriers of jazz!( & tubby hayes) (1958) Ronnie Scott & Tubby Hayes - The Couriers Of Jazz* ?– The Couriers Of Jazz Sello: Carlton ?– LP12-116 Formato: Vinyl, LP, Mono País: US Publicado: 1958 Género: Jazz Estilo: Bop Lista de Títulos A1 Mirage 5:20 A2 After Tea 7:50 A3 Stop The World, I Want To Get Off 3:40 A4 In Salah 3:50 B1 Star Eyes 4:10 B2 The Monk 4:35 B3 My Funny Valentine 4:45 B4 Day In, Day Out 5:30 Créditos • Bass – Jeff Clyne • Drums – Bill Eyden • Piano – Terry Shannon • Tenor Saxophone – Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes Ronnie Scott OBE (nacido Ronald Schatt , 28 de enero de 1927 - 23 de diciembre de 1996) era un saxofonista tenor inglés de jazz y propietario de un club de jazz. [1] Cofundó el Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , uno de los clubes de jazz más populares del Reino Unido, en 1959. Ronnie Scott nació en Aldgate , East London , en una familia judía. Su padre, Joseph Schatt, era de ascendencia rusa, y la familia de su madre Sylvia asistió a la sinagoga portuguesa en Alie Street. Scott asistió a la Fundación Central Boys 'School . Scott comenzó a tocar en pequeños clubes de jazz a la edad de 16 años. Su reclamo a la fama fue que "el suegro de Vera Lynn le enseñó a tocar". Estuvo de gira con el trompetista Johnny Claes de 1944 a 1945 y con Ted Heath en 1946. Trabajó con Ambrose , Cab Kaye y Tito Burns . Estuvo involucrado en la cooperativa banda y club Club Eleven de músicos de corta duración (1948–50) con Johnny Dankworth . Scott se hizo conocido del arreglista / compositor Tadd Dameron , cuando el estadounidense trabajaba en el Reino Unido para Heath, y se informa que actuó con Dameron como el pianista, en un concierto de Club Eleven. Scott fue miembro de la generación de músicos británicos que trabajaron en el transatlántico Cunard Queen Mary de forma intermitente desde 1946 hasta alrededor de 1950 para visitar la ciudad de Nueva York y escuchar la nueva forma de jazz llamada bebop en los clubes de allí. Scott fue uno de los primeros músicos británicos influenciados por Charlie Parker y otros músicos de jazz moderno. En 1952, Scott se unió a la orquesta de Jack Parnell y de 1953 a 1956 dirigió una banda y quinteto de nueve integrantes que incluyó a Pete King , con quien luego abrió su club de jazz, Victor Feldman , Hank Shaw y Phil Seamen . Co-dirigió The Jazz Couriers con Tubby Hayes de 1957 a 1959 y fue líder de un cuarteto que incluía a Stan Tracey (1960-67). De 1967 a 1969, Scott fue miembro de la Big Band Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland , que recorrió Europa e incluyó a Johnny Griffin y Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis . Simultáneamente, dirigió su octeto, que incluía a John Surman y Kenny Wheeler , y un trío con Mike Carr en los teclados y Bobby Gien en la batería (1971–1975). Las otras bandas de Scott a menudo incluían a John Critchinson en los teclados y Martin Drew en la batería. Hizo un trabajo de sesión ocasional, que incluyó tocar el solo en " Lady Madonna ", el sencillo de 1968 de los Beatles , tocar en la partitura de Roy Budd para la película Fear Is the Key (1972) y tocar el solo de saxo tenor en " I Missed Again ", el sencillo de 1981 de Phil Collins . Charles Mingus dijo de él en 1961: "De los niños blancos, Ronnie Scott se acerca al sentimiento del negro y azul, como lo hace Zoot Sims ". [9] Scott grabó con poca frecuencia durante las últimas décadas de su carrera. Sufría de depresión. Mientras se recuperaba de una cirugía para implantes dentales, murió a la edad de 69 años de una sobredosis accidental de barbitúricos recetados por su dentista. La viuda de Ronnie Scott, Mary Scott, y su hija, Rebecca Scott, escribieron las memorias A Fine Kind of Madness: Ronnie Scott Remembered , con un prólogo de Spike Milligan. El libro fue publicado en 1999 en Londres por Headline Book Publishing. Scott es quizás mejor recordado por su cofundación, con el ex tenista de saxo tenor Pete King , Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club , que abrió el 30 de octubre de 1959 en un sótano en 39 Gerrard Street en el distrito Soho de Londres , con el debut de un joven alto El saxofonista llamado Peter King (sin relación), antes de mudarse a un lugar más cercano en 47 Frith Street en 1965. El lugar original continuó operando como el "Old Place" hasta que el contrato de arrendamiento se agotó en 1967, y fue utilizado para actuaciones de la nueva generación de músicos nacionales. Scott actuó regularmente como el genial Maestro de Ceremonias del club, y se destacó por su repertorio de bromas, comentarios y frases ingeniosas. Una introducción típica podría ser: "Nuestro próximo invitado es uno de los mejores músicos del país. En la ciudad, es una mierda". Otro anuncio memorable fue: "La próxima semana estamos orgullosos de tener un cuarteto con Stan Getz y el violinista Stuff Smith. Se llama el" Cuarteto relleno de Getz ". Ronnie solía usar en los últimos días los servicios de John Schatt para reservar bandas de rock para Ronnie. Scott está arriba. Después de la muerte de Scott, King continuó dirigiendo el club durante otros nueve años, antes de venderlo al empresario de teatro Sally Greene en junio de 2005. En septiembre de 2013, mientras se redecoraba el club, se colocó un acaparamiento de 12 metros cuadrados en la fachada de la calle Frith como un homenaje a su fundador homónimo, con una fotografía gigante de Ronnie Scott por Val Wilmer , junto a una de su legendaria -liners: "Me encanta este lugar, es como estar en casa, sucio y lleno de extraños". Además de participar en orquestas de nombre, Scott dirigió o co-dirigió numerosas bandas con algunos de los músicos de jazz más destacados de Gran Bretaña del día. JAZZ ACTUALIDAD .-Esta semana vamos a tener al contrabajista Ander Garcia Trio con su álbum “AMAHIRU” Cuando los ingredientes son sobradamente conocidos, tendemos a pensar que los resultados también serán los habituales. Y aunque a menudo es así, cuando esos mismos ingredientes caen en manos de un artitsta valiente, obstinado y brillante como Ander Garcia la sorpresa puede ser mayúscula. Y este bello y excitante nuevo trabajo que se presenta bajo el nombre de Ander Garcia Trio sin duda lo es. En ese sentido, son especialmente destacables sus discos en solitario “Ttun Kurrun” y “Hiru”, ampliamente aclamados por la crítica especializada. Pero en el caso que nos ocupa, el del trio que forma junto al piano de Jorge Castañeda y la batería de Mikel Urretagoiena, nos encontramos con el Ander Garcia mas explorador y aventurero. En este proyecto Ander utiliza las métricas y melodías de ancestrales bailes y bersos euskaldunes para desarrollar sus improvisaciones, y al mismo tiempo los moldea y adapta a nuevos contextos musicales creando un espacio de intercambio limbre entre ellos. De este modo el ritmo de la ezpata dantza se convierte en danza latinoaméricana, y partiendo del de los zortzikos llega a un híbrido rítimico absolutamente contemporáneo y desconocido, o se lanza a llevar el ritmo del tamboril a la batería para diseccionarlo en un abánico de variantes deslumbrante. Las oportunidades para la sorpresa son infinitas en este disco.
In the season finale of Subterraneans, I return to the Aldgate Cavern to try to connect it to the rest of the City. Subterraneans will now be on hiatus until season 2 is ready. Follow on Twitter or subscribe on iTunes for more information as it's ready. https://twitter.com/subterpod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265
A Letter To Aldgate - Nat Mills by Hills Baptist Church
Episode 1 of a new podcast about the hidden underground stories which lie beneath London. I tell the story of the Aldgate Tunnel, the men who built it, and what they found beneath the City. All music and words by James Thompson. Subscribe on iTunes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/subterraneans-podcast/id1475124265 Follow the podcast on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/subterpod
Dabbers is revolutionising the game of Bingo. Considered to be one of the worlds first Contemporary Bingo events, with a site specifically designed to maximise enjoyment from the game. Hear how after a very tricky start, Founder - Ed Wethered - pulled together the funding, the site and the concepts, to create a hilarious and memorable night out. You can go and see them at their Aldgate home, or at many major festivals this Summer. 1:20 Last weeks episode 2:36 Competitor Socialising event 5:08 This weeks guest is Dabbers Bingo 08:45 Ed from Dabbers 11:22 Ed’s background 14:00 Fundraising for charities 15:40 Their first Bingo run 16:35 Raising capital and being cut out 18:00 Going again 20:00 The difference in marketing now compared to before 21:20 Keeping the momentum when handing some of the operations over to staff 23:15 Biggest success so far 24:55 Our favourite things about Dabbers 26:30 Giving away a holiday every Friday 27:00 Costs, times and dates 27:55 Festivals to find Dabbers at this year: Latitude, House Festival, Feastival, Truck Festival 28:55 Ed’s favourite London bars 30:36 Ed’s morning routine 34:00 Recap on the conversation with Ed 35:35 Ben’s time on Osea Island 40:10 The Gelato Festival You can reach the guests here Instagram: @dabbersbingo Twitter: @Dabbersbingo Facebook: @DabbersBingoLDN Web: www.dabbers.bingo Mentions The Curtain Sherlock the Game Is Now Dabbers Osea Island The Gelato Festival Whistle Punks Hire Space Shuffle Club Raise your hands Hop King Latitude House Festival Feastival Truck Festival Mother Kelly’s Ray Jones Satan’s Whiskers The Crown and Two Chairman Osea Island Give us a Shout on #ShoutAbout Instagram: ShoutAboutLondon Facebook: ShoutAboutLDN Twitter: ShoutAboutLDN Instagram: ShoutaboutStuart Please subscribe and rate us! Want to talk about the show? Got an idea for guests? Want to promote your event? Contact us on any of the above, or: info@shoutabout.london www.shoutabout.london
The London Undone ‘City of London Churches’ podcast series: A journey around the magnificent and many churches of the City of London. Learn about their histories, architecture, associations, features and their spiritual lives today. 19. Just outside the eastern gate of the City of London, the welcoming church of St Botolph without Aldgate hides London's oldest organ. Hear it played and enjoy its Georgian surroundings. Thanks to Church watcher Becky Banfield, Rev Laura Jørgensen and Director of Music, Shanna Hart.
In the latest episode of the Government Digital Service Podcast, we speak to GDS Director General Kevin Cunnington about his time at the organisation and his career so far. A full transcript of the episode follows: Angus Montgomery: So welcome to the latest episode of the Government Digital Service podcast. My name is Angus Montgomery, I’m a senior writer at GDS. For this episode I’m in the slightly unusual position of interviewing my boss, or the boss of the organisation I work for. It’s GDS Director General Kevin Cunnington. Kevin, thank you very much for joining us on this podcast. Kevin Cunnington: Thank you for inviting me Angus. Angus Montgomery: So Kevin, I’d like to talk to you today about your time in GDS. So you’ve been here for, getting on for three years I think, and your priorities for GDS as we enter the new financial year and what’s coming up over the next year. But before we get onto all of that, I’d like to talk to you a bit about your time before GDS and before government, because you’ve been a technologist, or involved in digital and technology for your entire career, and you’ve got quite a storied career before you joined GDS. I think first of all, as I understand, you studied computer science and you have a master’s in artificial intelligence, so what first led you to that subject matter, to wanting to study technology and then develop a career in it? Kevin Cunnington: So I went to a boys grammar school, well rather dare I say, a stuffy traditional boys grammar school, where you really had a choice of doing the arts or the sciences, so I did the sciences - maths, physics, chemistry and luckily, a bit on the side, general studies. And I was always fascinated in two areas beyond that, which were computer science and astrophysics. And oddly, at the time, both were equally as bonkers because I had never seen a computer, none of us had. No boy from my school had ever gone on to study computer science, so when I decided that was what I was going to do, I was the first boy ever from my school to study computer science, having never seen a computer [0.01.58]. Angus Montgomery: If, at the risk of asking a very personal question, and you can answer in general time, what sort of general time are we talking about? Kevin Cunnington: 1979. Angus Montgomery: Right. Oh wow. Kevin Cunnington: Yes, I went ‘79 - ‘82. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, yeah. Kevin Cunnington: So if you’re familiar with the history of computer science, we’d just about invented the BBC Micro in ‘79. But the first real personal computer, the IBM XT80, XT, came out in ‘81. So you know, nobody had ever seen a personal computer. They existed only as mainframes really in large regional centres that none of us had ever seen. So taking a punt, and doing a degree based on something I’d never seen before, seemed like quite an odd option really. But it’s worked out ok I’d have to say. Angus Montgomery: And your master’s as well, I presume at the same...at this sort of time, artificial intelligence was in the very early stages of our understanding. What was it that drew you to that and what was the kind of, what was going on in artificial intelligence then and is it still relevant to what we’re talking about today? Kevin Cunnington: No, it was very different then. So you’re right to say, there was very little work in A.I. back in ‘83 when I did my second degree. And we just had this report called the Lighthill report which said, largely it was rubbish and it’ll never work. So my timing wasn’t perfect but my interest in A.I and computing has always been with the effect on people really and how it kind of works, not necessarily the programming, but the effect of computing - although I do love programming as well. But it was different then, ‘cause we actually used to programme A.I systems by hand. Angus Montgomery: Wow. Kevin Cunnington: In these really obscure languages like Prolog and Lisp, which are based on quite complicated mathematical constructs oddly enough, the last thing you’d expect to be quite natural. And so I spent a whole raft of my master’s degree programming Prolog and Lisp on things like chess playing. My thesis was around, kind of flexible airport selection. So I built this system that learnt that if you couldn’t go to that airport which was your favourite, then you’d most likely pick the next one, and therefore we could offer that as a potential option in the first place. Angus Montgomery: Oh wow. Kevin Cunnington: So yeah, quite ahead of its time really. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, yeah. And you mentioned, I mean obviously you were involved in writing programming back then, is that something you still do today when you have time or are still involved in? Kevin Cunnington: No, because when I started out in programming in the traditional languages like Pascal and C, and I actually come past programming Codebar oddly enough, but my passion was always Prolog and Lisp, and since they’re no longer really around, I just, you know, wouldn’t have the skill set to programme in Java or Ruby nowadays, so I’ve not done any for years really Angus Montgomery: But it’s still there, still there, the skills I’m sure. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, I think I’d like to go back to it when I retire kind of thing. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, go back to early ‘80s artificial intelligence. And then, so after studying you worked for PWC [Pricewaterhouse Coopers], and developed, or pioneered their use of Agile methodology. Can you tell me a bit more about sort of, again, what Agile methodology was like, and presumably this was sort of mid to late ‘80s, and what was Agile like back then and how does that relate to what we’re doing now and how we use Agile? Kevin Cunnington: So I think the kind of crystallising example is I got sent to this regional city in England to help a large insurer try to automate the process of life insurance, underwriting for life insurance. And people had had a go at that in the past and failed miserably because it’s quite complicated. And I was the first person to try it using A.I techniques and it worked, first time in the world it ever worked, and we came out with a programme that could underwrite life insurance quite comprehensively. Angus Montgomery: Wow. Kevin Cunnington: And it was really...so A.I was like user researchers now. Angus Montgomery: Right, yeah yeah. Kevin Cunnington: You used to sit down with people, we used to actually video the experts doing their job and then we used to interactively programme up what they’d told us and we iterated that over time, so very much like Agile is today, lots of user research, lots of interaction, lots of feedback, lots of intelligent challenge. And then in, I think it was ‘92, PWC shipped me off to their, what they called, their technology centre in California in Menlo Park, to write down everything I’d learnt about doing A.I using Agile. And this I duly did, it took me six months to deposit the whole contents of my mind onto a book, which was actually quite big, but that then became PWC’s global methodology for developing expert systems, A.I systems, using Agile. And it was broadly what you’d expect to see today. You know we said prototypes are important, you need to understand the scope of what you’re doing, you need to test and learn, you need to do user research and it’s all not changed very much if we’re being brutally honest over the, what’s that, 25 years. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, well it works, so yeah, why change it? And your background, so as well as working at PWC, you worked for various other sort of large organisations, so Vodafone, Goldman Sachs. Kevin Cunnington: Yes. Angus Montgomery: And it covers, your background kind of covers large organisations as well as startups and entrepreneurial work, so you’ve got a, quite a varied kind of work history before you came to the public sector. How do you use that experience in your current role in government and kind of, what are the similarities and differences between that and what you do know? Kevin Cunnington: So I think you know, my kind of, original company was PWC, which was a management consultancy. And apparently today, PWC run the best kind of, fast track scheme in the UK, and they probably in fairness to them, did then. And it was really helpful because as a scientist, my ability to write and present and critique, you know, was that of a scientist. So I was taught how to present, I was taught how to write, I was told how to do analysis and that, it turned out to be a really great start in life. And I spent that, broadly best part of a decade, doing A.I systems. And as people know, in the ‘90s when greed was good and lunch was for wimps, I sold out and went to work for Goldman Sachs in New York running their trading systems. Which when you say it that way sounds slightly mad but all trading systems are written using Agile. So the fact that I knew how to do Agile at scale and quite quickly and quite well, turned out to be quite a big advantage for them and for me. Angus Montgomery: Yeah definitely. Kevin Cunnington: And then as you say, I had a spell as an entrepreneur. Having been a successful entrepreneur originally, I made quite a bit of money and most people know I lost 13 million quid on a venture, which I do say to people, if you meet my wife, please don’t mention it ‘cause she has stopped mentioning it now. But at the time obviously it was quite traumatic. And then I went back to work for Vodafone as their Global Head of Digital before joining the Civil Service about five years ago now. Angus Montgomery: So you joined, so your first role in the Civil Service was with DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] as Director General of Business Transformation, that’s correct I think. Kevin Cunnington: It was. Angus Montgomery: Can you tell me a bit more about that role and what you were responsible for and what you were doing? Kevin Cunnington: So back in the day it was called the Director General for Digital Transformation and my job was really twofold. The overarching part of the job was, how to transform DWP to be fit for digital and you know, as we know, we did that via the Academies, and all the rich picture work that we did in creating a vision. But the really tangible part of my work was helping to recruit, train the digital teams for the big programmes like Universal Credit back in the day. And that’s broadly what I spent the first two and a half years of my Civil Service life doing. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, so it’s kind of, bringing people in and building capability. Those, those two things across the department. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, I’ll tell you, the big thing we did was bring in the Academies. Which was not a new idea, it was an idea that we’d used in Vodafone. But in Vodafone, we’d used it to train largely graduates in digital, because even Vodafone couldn’t get ahold of enough graduates. In the Civil Service when we first tried it, we blatantly took the idea and reimplemented it and I wasn’t sure whether it would work, and this would be one of the big positives and learnings for me that, we’d tried it on graduates, in the Civil Service we were trying it on older people like myself, and it was at all clear to me that older people would respond to being re-trained in digital. But the reality was they loved it because it gave them a whole new lease of life, it made them feel really modern and updated, and they really warmed to it. And it’s been, some of the big successes, we’ve had people put off their retirement because having been re-trained, they enjoyed it so much, they want to carry on working. Which was, you know, you’d never believe that was true but they’ve been a massive success. We’ve trained 10,000 people now in the Academies over the five years. Angus Montgomery: Brilliant. And when they first started five years ago, was it in DWP? Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, 24 Feb 2014. Angus Montgomery: Even got the date. Kevin Cunnington: It’s my birthday Angus, so it’s hard to forget. Angus Montgomery: Oh right, wow. Very fortuitous. And so that, and again the Academy, the idea of that is upskilling people with potentially no digital capability, or no digital knowledge whatsoever and kind of giving them the skills and potential for a new career. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah exactly. When I first joined DWP, we were kind of in that twilight of 2013 in the Civil Service. And I was told DWP, when I think about this now and I was reminiscing the other day, I must have been incredibly controversial because DWP told me they got 300 experts in digital. And after the first few days, I hadn’t met one so I was beginning to get a bit suspicious, so I wrote down as a word cloud, the 50 terms you really need to understand to understand digital and particularly if you like, the GDS version with discovery, alpha and beta. And challenged the whole of the organisation if someone could get 50 like I could, then I would absolutely consider them an expert, and that’s fair enough. And a lot of people came forward and the highest score was 20. Angus Montgomery: Oh really? Wow. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah. And you realise actually, we probably are kidding ourselves relative to industry. We’re not where we think we need to be. And at that point, that’s how we kind of came to the academy system. For me, it was always better to retrain our folk even if that was a gamble in the way we described earlier than it was to kind of, you know, put them to one side and hire a whole set of new people who aren’t part of the Civil Service culture. But, and this again is a really true story. When we first trained people, and then put them back into their departments and their host building, people used to say to them, ‘we don’t do it like that around here Kevin’. So in the end I got this entire building, bit like we are here today, in Leeds. And we commondered the first floor, the ground floor, and we used that to train people in the Academy. Then we commandeered the next two floors for people to go off and do digital programmes. So they were entirely sequestrated from the rest of the business because, if they were put in the business, we had this terrific organ rejection. And you think about that now, and you think that must have been incredibly controversial that I set up a building to incubate digital. Angus Montgomery: To develop this new way of thinking. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, yeah but it’s all true and you know I, again I was reminiscing the other day, I even stopped people who weren’t qualified from going through the Academy from doing digital for a while. Angus Montgomery: Oh wow. Kevin Cunnington: Because we had a number of people who thought they knew, you know ‘cause of the 300 expert thing again, thought they knew what they were doing and they didn’t, so I stopped them and made them get completely trained in the Academy, then I let them crack on. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. And were you seeing, so when people were being trained in the Academy and then going back into DWP and sort of, after this sequestering, were you seeing then the change in the department or the capability building? Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, I think it took, so in DWP over the first 3 years, I think we trained 5,000 people. Because, at peak, we were training 3000 people a year. And it was only through you know, mass re-education if you like, or mass education, that we got to a point where, you know these people who knew about digital weren’t strange folk anymore. They were more you know, the core fabric of the business. And it still is a fact that 80% of the people who were trained in the Academies are really around awareness of digital, not practitioners for digital, only about ⅕ of the people go on to be practitioners. But the majority of the effort was just stopping people from being worried about it or thinking it was alien or thinking it was different. And eventually critical mass won and we thought digital was part of our DNA, and if you went into DWP today, you’d never consider doing something that wasn’t digital, you would genuinely be digital by default. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. So it was a real culture shift. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, exactly. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, yeah. That’s great. And obviously while you were at DWP, GDS had been around for 2 or 3 years beforehand. What was your kind of relationship with GDS and how were you working with them when you were at DWP? Kevin Cunnington: So, GDS invented a construct which, I still think to this day is a really good idea, called Digital Leaders. And it was essentially getting all the heads of digital together on a monthly basis, chaired by GDS. And I was part of that. So I was always part of the kind of family. DWP did have, occasionally, some GDS folk working with us on some of the programmes but relatively small numbers. I think it wasn’t until about 2015, that the chair of the Digital Leaders changed to be Chris Ferguson and myself. We completely changed the dynamic to say it wasn’t just about the centre but the centre in partnership with a big department, and from there I had a lot more engagement with GDS. Obviously prior to arriving here in GDS. Angus Montgomery: I think it was August/September 2016 when you joined. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, I think it was. Yeah. Angus Montgomery: You joined as the first Director General of GDS, and tell me about when you joined, what were your sort of, first impressions. I mean obviously you knew the organisation well, you’d been working very closely with it but actually sort of, coming in the door and sort of, becoming part of GDS, what were your impressions of it? Kevin Cunnington: Oh it was definitely quite different to DWP, even though, I mean honestly we had absolutely mimicked GDS in DWP in our digital centres by putting up the bunting...you know, really ruthlessly just stealing all the good ideas. But GDS was just fundamentally, purely digital and it was, yeah, incredibly different. It was much more challenging, people were much more open, it wasn’t anything like so hierarchical and it was still kind of like, a big startup back in ‘16 [2016]. And like, you know where it is now in ‘19 [2019] where it feels more like an enterprise. Angus Montgomery: Yeah yeah yeah. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, it was way different and you know the statistic today in GDS, is 47% of us are in the age bracket of 30-40. Angus Montgomery: Oh wow. Kevin Cunnington: So that’s quite a lot different from I guess, the general profile of the Civil Service. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Kevin Cunninton: And particularly DWP. So you really did notice it had much more, yeah, much more youth on its side immediately when you walked in the door. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. And what, and when you joined what were your first priorities for, well yourself and for GDS? Kevin Cunnington: Oh I think they’ve honestly remained the same. And it’s funny because I had my equivalent from Australia here today to chat, and I was saying, the two bits of advice I always consistently give digital organisations, digital countries, starting out are one, build capability, get the academies sorted at scale. Two, don’t start building applications until you’ve got your identity strategy sorted out. Angus Montgomery: Right. Kevin Cunnington: Because if you don’t get your identity strategy first and foremost ahead of, then you find yourself in the kind of position we are which is, playing catchup on identity. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Kevin Cunnington: And there the two, they’ve always been my two priorities here at GDS. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Kevin Cunnington: Support the Verify programme, build out the Academies. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Brilliant. And what were you, when you joined, obviously you said it was very very different from DWP, what were the differences in the sense of like, moving from a department to the centre and what you could do here and what you couldn’t do from the centre that you could do in departments? Kevin Cunnington: I think the main thing is that I always felt in DWP, notwithstanding the fact that I was running a bigger group probably two or three times the size of GDS, I wasn’t quite as busy if that makes sense. I had more time to think about the strategy. And famously we used to have these Friday morning breakfast meetings with the ‘brain trust’, quotes around that, where we just used to think about what DWP could look like in 2020, 2025, 2030. And I think it’s taken you know, as you say, nearly the two and a half, three years I’ve been here to get to a point where I think I've now got the right structures and management team in place, that I’m actually beginning to free up to think about what is our 2030 vision, what is the future of A.I in the workplace and yeah, it’s taken quite, it’s taken much longer than I thought it would to get to that point where I’ve got that same quality of thinking time that I had in the departments. Kevin Cunnington: Which is just an interesting observation, really. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, that is interesting. And well in what other ways as well, I mean you obviously, in that respect GDS has changed in that you kind of, now have that space to think about that stuff. What other ways do you feel that GDS has grown and developed so far in your time here? Kevin Cunnington: Well I think the two obvious things you’d highlight is, it’s much bigger. It’s 860 people today, and I think it was about 400 when I joined, it’s of that order, so it’s much bigger. The new building here in Aldgate is just brilliant. I think it’s made a massive change of quality of life for all of us here in GDS. But I think there’s some other things as well. Acquiring the Academies gave us a national footprint for the first time. Angus Montgomery: So we have Academies, sorry, in Leeds and.. Kevin Cunnington: Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle. Hopefully I keep saying Bristol outloud, for the good people of Bristol to hear me, so hopefully that’ll come true at some point. And I think the other thing that’s changed is we’ve now got the Introvert Network and of course, we’ve got the BAME [Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic] Network, which didn’t exist back then, so I think we are you know, continuing to embrace diversity and inclusion here in GDS. Angus Montgomery: And that’s a very obvious thing that diversity and inclusion is, it’s something that we talk about a lot in this organisation, and rightly so, but I think I’ve not worked in organisations like this where it’s so obvious that the organisation cares about that, and I think that that’s really important. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, I’m the same. I think it’s integral to its DNA. Angus Montgomery: Yeah, yeah. Kevin Cunnington: And you wonder, I mean it’s one thing to take great pride in around GDS. I mean it’s not, I didn’t start it but nevertheless I feel the real responsibility of making sure we continue to be diverse and inclusive going forward. Angus Montgomery: Definitely. And looking forward, because we’re recording this in April and we’re moving onto a new financial year. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah. Angus Montgomery: So there’s a lot of work going on in GDS and around government as a whole as people prepare for it and people think about, not just the year ahead but as you’ve mentioned, the 10 or 20 years ahead and what we could do. So first of all, could you tell me a little bit about what your priorities are for the next year? Kevin Cunnington: Yeah so in terms of priorities, I generally try and describe GDS you know, through the lens of history where, in 2012 we started out by digital by default, which was all just about building confidence that as a Civil Service we could insource some of these things and do them. The next phase, 2015 onwards, I would say is building capability. That the integration of the Academies, the GAAP platforms, all the things we’ve done to scale the business. And then I’d say over the last 12-18 months, we’ve talked more about transformation, collaboration and innovation really. That’s the kind of slogans we batted off for Sprint last year and so with that in mind, and we’ve got some big things landing in the very short term, we’ve got the A.I review that we’ve been doing on how A.I could be used in the workforce, that we’ve done in conjunction with DCMS, landing over the next few months. We’ve got the minister’s review on innovation and how that could land, although that report is becoming much broader than innovation. It’s really kind of front-running what I think we’ll end up saying as part of SR19, or spending review 19. Angus Montgomery: Brilliant. Yeah. Kevin Cunnington: And then we’ve got quite a big set of tours really. So we’ve got all the new Sprint conferences in the devolved nations, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, which of course we’ve never done before. We’re doing a special in Leeds and then of course, we’re heading home to London in September. And then on the back of that, we’ve got, we’re attending every Civil Service Live doing keynote presentations, and we’re doing the Let’s Talk About Race workshops as well. Angus Montgomery: Yes, which is towards the end of the month I think, isn’t it? Yeah. Kevin Cunnington: Yes exactly. And then towards the end of the month, we’ve actually got Breaking Down Barriers. Which is our functional view of how we promote BAME people into the SCS [Senior Civil Service] within digital. Angus Montgomery: Into Senior Civil Service. Yeah. Wow. So a lot coming up. Kevin Cunnington: Yes. Angus Montgomery: A lot touring and a lot of talking. And yeah, a busy summer ahead. And as we kind of, as you think about your priorities, in your opinion, what, can you summarise what GDS is here to do and how that role is developing and how it will develop, I suppose over the coming years? Kevin Cunnington: Yeah so you know, we’ve tried to highlight the core values of GDS by putting them into pithy slogans really. ‘Show what good looks like’, and GDS has always been great at showing what good looks like from, right from the early days of user research right through to now. We show what good looks like. Two, slightly new but ‘do the hardest things’. So my view is, GDS should be prototyping things today that departments will want to explore in 2 years time. Good example of that would be voice activation on GOV.UK. Third value is around reflecting the society we serve. We talked a lot about diversity but we also need to encourage SMEs (small-to-medium enterprises) across the UK to work with us. We also need, as GDS, to have a more regional footprint. And then the fourth value we talk about is helping government transform. And that for me, is the one I want to tweak going forward. I think our role is not to help but to lead. Angus Montgomery: Ok. Kevin Cunnington; And just be more proactive about, this is what good in the space of biometrics, or this is what good in the space of voice activation, looks like. And begin to work more proactively with departments to lay out that roundmap that we asked them to follow. Yeah just be much more proactive in the fourth category. Angus Montgomery: Ok. That’s interesting. So is that proactive in the sense of sort of, actively working with these projects or doing these things as exemplars almost? Kevin Cunnington: Yeah exactly, exactly like that Angus. Working with some departments on exemplars, setting the standards and then, really, encouraging, cajoling even, departments to say well, now we’ve figured out how to do voice activation of services, why wouldn’t you make all your major services voice ‘activationable’ by 2027. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Kevin Cunnington: That kind of thing. I think the other big shift is the local digital declaration. Where we’re obviously working much more closer nowadays with local authorities, which I think is a really good thing for the UK because citizens interact far more frequently with local authorities than they do obviously, central government. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. That’s really interesting. And finally, because we’re getting, we’re running towards the end of this episode, just finish with a couple of well, I suppose, quick fire-ish questions. First all, what’s the most challenging part of your job? Kevin Cunnington: Oh quick fire? I’d be disingenuous if I didn’t say keeping your eye on the ball really. There’s a lot going on, and actually just keeping as focused on the core business as well as planning for EU Exit, is definitely the most difficult part of it. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Keeping all, yeah...keeping in charge of everything. What’s the most enjoyable part? Kevin Cunnington: Well this will come as an irony ‘cause most people know I’m quite, well I am an introvert, that’s why I took up computer science but, I love the touring if I’m honest. Angus Montgomery: You’ve got a lot of it coming up so. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah exactly. You know, the fact that we’re going on tour with as we said, Sprint, Civil Service Live, Breaking Down Barriers. I think people also know that when I was in Vodafone, for 3 and a half years, I didn’t spend a single week in the country, in this country. Angus Montgomery: Wow. Kevin Cunnington: I was perpetually as the Global Head somewhere else, looking at stuff in the Czech Republic or Italy. And I feel you know, in the back half of this year, I’d like to do more support our international directorate, Chris Ferguson’s directorate in flying the flag a little for Britain overseas. Angus Montgomery: ‘Cause there’s a lot of work going on there. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, and showing you know, why we have done some of the things we’ve done. And obviously learning from others as we do that. Angus Montgomery: Yeah. Kevin Cunnington: And that, that would make me very happy. Angus Montgomery: Brilliant, yeah. And final question, what’s your, what are you most proud of from your time at GDS so far? Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, there’s, there’s a huge list you know, from GAAP, GOV Wifi, all the work we’ve done on GOV.UK for EU Exit, which I think has been brilliant. The work we’ve started on innovation, the innovation survey, the innovation landscape, the new pipeline process, local digital declarations, the publication of the 7 Lenses book. Being on top of EU Exit, the Academies, the Emerging Tech Development programme, the Global Digital Marketplace. I mean it’s just.. Angus Montgomery: The list goes on. Kevin Cunnington: Yeah, yeah, you could be doing that for quite a while couldn’t you? Angus Montgomery: So thank you again to Kevin for joining us, and thank you for listening to this episode of the Government Digital Service podcast. I really hope that you enjoyed it. If you want to listen to future episodes or in fact, if you want to listen to the episodes that we’ve done so far, please do go to wherever it is that you download your podcasts episodes from, so Spotify, Apple Music, all those places. You’ll find us there, so hit subscribe and we hope you enjoy what we do in the future. And thank you again and goodbye. Kevin Cunnington: Thank you Angus.
This episode's guest is Lord Victor Adebowale CBE. Victor is a social entrepreneur and Chief Executive of Turning Point, a social enterprise providing social care for 77,000 people. He is the founding chair of collaborate, a "do tank" working on the future of public services and in 2001 he became a cross-bench peer as part of the so called People's Peer initiative. And in 2011 he was a guest on Desert Island Discs. Recorded at Turning Point, Aldgate, London.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/stevexoh)
Our hosts, Sarah Kocianski and Ross Gallagher sit down with two great guests: Lois Ollerenshaw, Ventures Principal at NBS Ventures and Valentina Kristensen Director of Growth and Communications at Oaknorth to talk all about the latest news in fintech. Including: Standard Chartered’s new CEO and virtual banking licence, David has a great interview with Samir Subberwal, Head of Retail Banking at Standard Chartered to get the inside scoop on the story. Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong has set up an entity for its virtual bank and submitted its application for a virtual banking licence to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. HSBC’s new digital bank. HSBC’s close to launching a new standalone digital bank known as ‘Project Iceberg’ which is expected to focus on small business customers - possible beta launch this year. A banking industry source said: “All the big banks are recruiting hundreds of people to build ‘attacker’ brands within their own organisations.” TSB’s boss to step down after yet another outage. TSBs string of IT failures has ended with TSB chief Paul Pester stepping down after 7 years in charge. Chairman Richard Meddings will take on the role of executive chairman until a new chief executive is appointed. We asked the good people of Aldgate if they had heard of the TSB issues, or any bank outages and if so would that stop them banking with them? Post Brexit boost to African markets. As the UK leaves the European Union, the City of London will play an even greater role in financing the fastest-growing economies across Africa - according to PM Theresa May. UK-Nigeria trade was worth £4.2 billion last year - many UK companies e.g. British Airways, Unilever, GSK, Shell, SCB have successful operations in Nigeria. We have a fantastic interview with Anna Wallace from the FCA, who was with the PM in Africa last week and gave us the inside story on the FCA's plans for fintech in Africa. Yolt partnerships with Homelyfe and PensionBee. Pensionbee customers can now see their live pension balance within Yolt. Clare Reilly, Head of Corporate Development, PensionBee said: “The Yolt-PensionBee integration is a game-changer for UK pension savers, who have sadly been left languishing in the 20th century for far too long.” We have another great interview, this time with Lucy Woolfenden, Marketing Director at Yolt to tell us more about it. Australia's Big Four roll out real-time payments with Osko. Australia's New Payments Platform is expecting a surge in transactions as the country's Big Four banks roll out Osko, an overlay service which enables account-to-account real-time payments via e-mail and mobile phone numbers. With the Big Four now ready to go live, Osko will be available within the online banking channel of more than 60 financial institutions, reaching over 42 million consumer and business accounts. And finally, 'Bingeable,' 'biohacking' and 'fintech' are now officially words. All this and so much more on today's episode of Fintech Insider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the fintech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Let us know your thoughts @FintechInsiders and join the discussion by signing up at www.fintechinsidernews.com For any startups that are looking for Seed and Series A funding and think Nationwide would be a good strategic investor, you can get in touch with them via @NBSVentures on Twitter or email hello@nbsventures.co.uk This week's episode was written by Laura Watkins and Dhanum Nursigadoo, produced by Laura Watkins and edited by Michael Bailey. Special Guests: Anna Wallace, Lois Ollerenshaw, Lucy Woolfenden, Samir Subberwal, and Valentina Kristensen.
ABOUT: ⠀ We're with Hugh Richard Wright his week to hear about his journey from blogger to PR and his experiences of being a freelancer for the past 3 years. Hugh discusses the differences between good & bad PR, his one-to-one approach to build relationships and how to ensure the conversation continues beyond your initial honeymoon period at launch. HUGH RICHARD WRIGHT Hugh Richard Wright is a restaurant PR and communications consultant whose client portfolio includes Victor Garvey's Rambla and Sibarita, Linda Lee's seven-strong Korean group which comprises On The Bab, On The Dak, Koba and Mee Market; Latin American restaurant, bar and bodega Paladar; Bife, a newly-opened Argentinean restaurant in Aldgate; Danish-Japanese sushi and yakitori group Sticks'n'Sushi in the UK; and Soho's ‘national treasure' Bob Bob Ricard. ⠀ FOLLOW US: ⠀ ⠀ Hugh Richard Wright http://hughrichardwright.com https://twitter.com/HGHRCHRDWRGHT/ https://www.instagram.com/hughrichardwright/?hl=en ⠀ ⠀ Mark / WE ARE Spectacular⠀ https://twitter.com/spectacularmark ⠀ https://twitter.com/spectacularchat ⠀ https://www.instagram.com/spectacularmark/ ⠀ https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmcculloch/ Do you want to be on the next Spectacular Marketing Podcast? Email gabby@wearespectacular.com
This week I was invited to the inaugural Peter Spanton Cocktail Competition, being held at the Jo Bin Law cocktail bar in Aldgate, London. Before anyone picked up a shaker, William Stern, the Commercial Director of Peter Spanton, sat down with me to explain why and how they conceived the competition in the first place. Four groups of two bartenders prepared and presented one cocktail to the three judges: Veronika Karola, Jarek Zawadzki and William. And they were off. I snagged them for a chat after their presentation to discover what inspired them and how they chose which Peter Spanton drink to use in their cocktail. The Cocktail of the week is the No 5 Alive: Ingredients: 35ml Portobello Ginstitute lemongrass gin by Tomas Cisty 10ml No5. based pine syrup 40ml Clarified gooseberry juice Top up Peter Spanton No5 Lemongrass tonic Build in slim collins glass, half glass of frozen gooseberries, half of ice (frozen gooseberries chill the drink and also adding flavour) For more clarification, please head to ALushLifeManual.com, where you’ll also find more recipes and all the cocktails of the week Until next time… bottom’s up!
My Beautiful Millennial is a story about a lonely yet predatory man and a vulnerable young woman who is trying to end their acquaintance. Trekking out across the Metropolitan Line from Aldgate to Amersham, Dido rehearses how she will leave Paul, the man who has taken her for dinner, to watch films, held her unwilling hand, back given her money, grabbed her jaw… The eldest of five sisters, Tamsin Grey spent her early childhood in England, Scotland and Zambia. Her family settled in south London where Tamsin still lives. She has worked as a cucumber picker, a yoga teacher, an oral historian, and as speechwriter to a secretary of state. Tamsin is a civil servant and SHE’S NOT THERE is her first novel. Underground: Tales for London features original short stories by London-loving authors from across the world. Each story, written by a Borough Press author, will be available to Evening Standard readers as a free podcast, from standard.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Dario and Neil visit the Curzon in Aldgate, London, to screen Aki Kaurismäki's latest release The Other Side of Hope. Exploring similar themes to his last film Le Harve, and effecting Kaurismäki's trademark sardonic, black humour, The Other Side of Hope tells the story of an asylum seeker who is faced with an impenetrable bureaucracy. He finds unlikely help from a local restaurant owner who is facing his own personal demons and struggles with Finnish society. Neil discusses the career of Aki Kaurismäki with Jaakko Seppälä from the University of Helsinki. Jaakko suggests Finland’s most famous filmmaker occupies a paradoxical position in the country's national consciousness and defines his style in terms of ironic minimalism.
Friday, the 13th of December, 1889. Aldgate, England. Jackie and Jacob set a trap for the Fairchilde Butcher in this final episode.
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#DeepRhythm returns Saturday 12th January 2013 at *Rhythm Factroy*, 16-18 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1EW Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/501285909902287 Headlined by REBEL from Lower East with support from the likes of.. MARK RADFORD/ HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT UK/ KISMET & FEVA/ TIM ROSS/ AARON JAY + More For more info: Search 'Deep Rhythm' on Resident Advisor // Facebook // Twitter BB Pin: 297383AA http://www.twitter.com/DeepRhythmPR deeprhythm@hotmail.co.uk
#DeepRhythm returns Saturday 12th January 2013 at *Rhythm Factroy*, 16-18 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1EW Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/501285909902287 Headlined by REBEL from Lower East with support from the likes of.. MARK RADFORD/ HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT UK/ KISMET & FEVA/ TIM ROSS/ AARON JAY + More For more info: Search 'Deep Rhythm' on Resident Advisor // Facebook // Twitter BB Pin: 297383AA http://www.twitter.com/DeepRhythmPR deeprhythm@hotmail.co.uk
#DeepRhythm returns Saturday 12th January 2013 at *Rhythm Factroy*, 16-18 Whitechapel Rd, E1 1EW Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/501285909902287 Headlined by REBEL from Lower East with support from the likes of.. MARK RADFORD/ HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT UK/ KISMET & FEVA/ TIM ROSS/ AARON JAY + More For more info: Search 'Deep Rhythm' on Resident Advisor // Facebook // Twitter BB Pin: 297383AA http://www.twitter.com/DeepRhythmPR deeprhythm@hotmail.co.uk
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