Podcasts about totally thames

Come and join us for an immersive guided walk around the Greenwich Peninsula as we explore the lesser-known environmental past and present of London's famous river.Your guides are Thames Estuary Partnership's Data & Training Manager Wanda Bodnar and Technical Director Amy Pryor.This episode was recorded on 17th September on our 'A short intro to the Thames Estuary - guided walk' event as part of the Totally Thames Festival.  ____________________Talk of the Thames has been brought to you by the Thames Estuary Partnership https://www.thamesestuarypartnership.org/Socials:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThamesEstPartFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/thamesestuarypartnership/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thamesestuarypartnership/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTV3IorpF7Qb9Sp673221jgProduced and Presented by Chloe Russell.

It's September. There's regattas everywhere. That can only mean one thing... It's Totally Thames time!Totally Thames is a month long festival celebrating the River Thames with arts events, active adventures, environmental initiatives, heritage and education programmes. In this months episode, our guest is Adrian Evans, founder and now director of the Thames Festival Trust.

Your London Legacy Mudlark noun: someone who scavenges in river mud for items of value, a term used especially to describe those who scavenged this way in London during the late 18th and 19th centuries. When most Londoners are tucked into bed waiting for the sun to rise, a select group is scouring the banks of the Thames on their hands and knees. They are digging up the past, searching for a glint of truth and the sheen of mystery that lays buried there. The first guest on Your London Legacy has been living in London for ten years and is now a fully-fledged Brit. With a background in architecture and award-winning designs. Jason Sandy draws us into his menagerie of artifacts, discoveries, and historical wealth. The Thames river is tidal in nature. As the water flows out, the mudlarkers crawl in. With the water raising and retreating twice a day, 7 meters, a large riverbed is constantly revealed and hidden again. The intertidal space is only accessible a few hours per day, but the landscape is cavernous, flanked by high sea walls. You climb down a rusty ladder and set foot into an archeological-rich world of glass, crustaceans, artifacts, and yes, sometimes bodies.   “So literally I just walk, I have gloves, I have kneepads, I crawl around on the foreshore…a lot of these things are so small and so delicate they go unmissed unless they’re right in front of your nose.”   ([12:45]) Thinking about hopping onto the riverbed? The mudlarking hobby is regulated. There are daily permits available for purchase, as well as licenses that last for 3 years. Some areas allow for scanning with a metal detector, others are for your eyes only. ([43:35]) Metal detectors can ping just about any metal now. You’d think that would make finding treasures quick work along the Thames, but you’d be wrong. People have treated the banks as rubbish heaps throughout history and many ship building and ship breaking companies operated along the river’s shore. This has left the mud littered with iron, and makes Jason mainly survey the banks by eye.   “Some of the most spectacular finds that have ever been retrieved from the Thames, which are now in the British Museum, were actually sacred, votive offerings that were offered to the river Thames by the Celtic tribes.   ([47:36]) Anything that is 300 years or older prompts Jason to take a trip to the Museum of London for recording. The museum has so much inventory to sift through and record that they have to limit what they take in. They limit what is recorded to five objects per session out of the hundred any mudlarker might find. Listen in to be immersed in terracotta pottery; coins which traded through the hands of thousands of ancient merchants; the pewter toys of medieval children; and the knuckle dusters of long-dead knights ([32:54]). Jason Shandy shares his drive and passion for these objects and the history which gives them an ageless, and priceless value. Links Totally Thames Mudlarking Exhibition  (https://totallythames.org/event/foragers-of-the-foreshore) @JasonMudlark (https://www.instagram.com/jasonmudlark/?hl=en) Support this podcast

Florrie Evans has been Director at The Weiss Gallery since 2010. The Weiss Gallery was established in 1985 at 59 Jermyn St, the heart of the prestigious St James district of London, and is a leading dealer in Tudor, Stuart, and Northern European portraiture and has made several notable sales over the last three decades which now grace distinguished public and private painting collections around the world. Prior to this, Florrie worked at Christies specializing in Early British Picture and Old Masters and has also assisted curators at Tate Britain and Dr Johnson’s House Museum. In addition to contributing to various art publications, she also appeared as an expert on portraiture for the BBC’s Stitch in Time Series. Her other love is Mudlarking on the Thames—a hobby she’s kept since the age of 4. Florrie describes the river as her ‘pleasure and obsession’ and now has the delight of taking her young daughter with her as she uncovers London’s washed up secrets. Step inside this beautiful gallery with me as Florrie’s reveals why art, London, and the Thames all play a major part in her fascinating life. This is Your London Legacy. “I definitely grew up with an appreciation for scavenging and salvaging—and from that came a love of history as well.” [5:55] I met with Florrie at the Weiss Gallery—a beautiful space showcasing 16th and 17th century Northern European portraiture. In the back is another gallery with all the English works displayed before a pale green silk and above it all is a striking glass ceiling to bathe the portraits in light. Florrie’s love for art and history started from a young age as she was taken Mudlarking with her parents. On top of finding artifacts in the river and imagining how they got there, Florrie’s father was a publisher and her mother a pianist—and exploring artistic sensibilities was clearly a part of her upbringing. [13:40] Florrie finds portraiture one of the most fascinating art forms to analyze and study. You can take into account what the person commissioning the portrait wanted—juxtaposed with the artists intent. She thinks that often this was a collaboration of the subject and artist, and the intent and purpose of the painting changed some throughout the centuries as well. “I look at it as an emotional headspace in a way—just connecting with the city in such a unique way. Hearing the sound of the water. I find it incredibly meditative.” [21:15] You have to keep in mind that there weren’t as many bridges across the river in earlier centuries. Watermen would take people back and forth at ferry crossing points across the river, and of course, people dropped things over the edges. Everything from tobacco pipes (which can be dated in part by how large the bowl is), a mysterious amount of garnets, relics from Roman times (which Florrie was obsessed with for a time), and buttons and beads—something Florrie feels drawn to given her love of clothing and fashion and costume. Make sure you go stop by the Weiss Gallery, and Florrie will be curating a large exhibition at Totally Thames where you can see things collected from a wide variety of Mudlarkers at the end of September.   Links @flo_finds (https://www.instagram.com/flo_finds/) Weissgallery.com (https://www.weissgallery.com/) Totally Thames (https://totallythames.org/) Support this podcast

Bored of the same old places? What if we could show you an Axe Throwing, Slam Dunking, Turbo Bouncing, Front Flipping, Bat **** crazy night out? and all before your first beer! Even better, what if you only needed two places to do it in? This week on the Shout About London Podcast we have Urban Axe Throwing venue Whistle Punks. Hear how a game of bubble football, escalated into slinging axes into wooden targets. Followed by the incredible, brand new, indoor Leisure Park: Zap Space. Both kids and adults can bounce around this dynamic world of adventure; busting front flips into huge foam diving pits, racing down the vertical slides, or slam dunking into the night. Episode 10: ‘Urban Sports’ has landed. 01:40 A recap on the last episode with Open House and Totally Thames 04:18 Review of the Week 04:45 What have Shout About London been up to in the last month 09:00 This week’s theme 10:00 First guests of the day Jools Whithorne and John Nimmons from Whistle Punks 10:40 The London Bubble Football Company and how the guys met 13:00 How Axe Throwing came up 14:26 The original venue 15:24 Expanding out of London 16:45 Why Whistle Punks? 18:00 Beginners are welcome 21:00 How it works 22:10 Health and Safety 23:42 Biggest challenges 24:55 Biggest success 26:40 Costs, time and dates 28:30 Things to announce / the League! 29:55 Who entertains the entertainers Thame Rockets 31:00 Social Media for Whistle Punks 31:20 Recap of the Whistle Punks conversation 32:12 Pol Gallagher from Zap Space 32:37 Pol’s background 34:00 Going it alone 34:50 Pop-up Architecture 36:21 Finding the location and its history 37:15 Why Trampolining 37:45 The bar 40:47 Dress code 41:52 Slam Dunk Zone 42:55 Zen Sen (sensory play for people with special needs) 43:40 Little Zappers 44:07 Burning calories 44:48 Costs, times and dates 47:35 Social Media for Zap Space 48:18 Who entertains the entertainers – Big Red, Kings Head Theatre Pub 51:00 Recap on zap space 52:30 The Weekly Shout Fireworks 54:36 This week’s thanks and Social Media 55:05 Moving to London You can reach the guests here Twitter: @WhistlePunksUK Instagam: @whistlepunks Facebook: @whistlepunks Web: https://whistlepunks.com/ps://openhouselondon.org.uk/ Twitter:@zapspaceLDN Instagram:@zapspaceldn Facebook:@zapspaceldn Web: http://totallythames.org/ Venues & events mentioned this week  HSBC office in St James Admiralty House Customs House International Astronauts Congress Ballie Ballerson Backyard Cinema – the Snow Kingdom Sonia Leigh The Borderline Red Rooster in the Curtain Whistle Punks Zap Space The London Bubble Football Company Play On Sport Django Bango The Great Northern Warehouse in Manchester Thame Rockets Pergola on the Roof Brixton Rooftop The Rex Nightclub Pitch Stratford The Curious Fox Old Town Bistro You Me Bum Bum Train Big Red Kings Head Theatre Bar Slim Jims Ally Pally Fireworks 5 guys names Mo at Marble Arch Theatre Skylight at Tobacco Docks 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 http://ShoutAbout.London 

What better way for Open House to celebrate its 25th anniversary, than by talking to Shout About London and our educated listeners. We’re also joined by Totally Thames festival, as they discuss some of their favourites, from the 150 events they have in store for Londoners, this September. 0:56 The boys recap last week's show. 2:20 Review of the week 3:10 Some winners of the Hardens Restaurant Awards  7:50 Last weekend  10:48 This week’s theme and guests  12:20 Rosalind from Open City enters the studio 14:10 What is Open House  16:38 Who goes to Open House  18:15 How the tours work  20:25 How they get the venues involved  21:38 Biggest challenge  22:35 Successes  23:43 Costs, times and dates  25:10 Rosalind's picks of the week 184 Shepherds Bush Road Harmondsworth Medieval Barn in Hillingdon Tump 53 - Nature reserve Mews House Shaftesbury Theatre The Tara Theatre in Richmond Lancaster House   28:40 Social Media    29:07 Recap and intro to Hannah Nicholls Totally Thames  30:22 Hannah's background  31:45 What is Totally Thames and the Thames Festival Trust 32:40 Why don't we use the River much in London 34:47 The beginning of the Festival  37:37 How are the events put together  39:44 Challenges & Successes  42:34 Costs, times and dates  43:32 Hannah’s Totally Thames picks of the month (that are left to come) Brunel Museum and tunnel shaft in Rotherhithe Dixie Queen on the Thames 46:00 Social Media  47:20 A recap of Totally Thames  48:10 The Weekly Shout LAPADA - antiques fair Colourscape Music Festival Rough Runner 51:50 This week’s thankyous and Shout About Social Media You can reach the guests here Twitter: @OpenHouseLondon Instagam: @OpenHouseLondon Facebook: @OpenHouseLondon2017 Web: https://openhouselondon.org.uk/ Twitter:@TotallyThames Instagram:@TotallyThames Facebook:@TotallyThamesUK Web:http://totallythames.org/ YouTube:Totally Thames Venues & events mentioned this week  Hardens  Hippodrome Casino Ozone  Kiln  Cabotte The Bleeding Heart Slim Jims (Angel) The Lighterman  The Curtain Vault Gym  Pembroke Castle Richmix Banqueting House Castle St Angelo BT Tower 10 Downing Street The Shard  The Mudlark in London Bridge London Riviera  More London The Scoop Sing for water  The Tall Ships festival  Future Dust  National poetry library at the south bank centre  Bascule Chamber Tower Bridge The Phoenix Artists Club Rough Runner  Colourscape Music Festival  Brunel Museum and tunnel shaft in Rotherhithe  Dixie Queen on the Thames  184 Shepherds Bush Road  Harmondsworth Medieval Barn in Hillingdon  Tump 53 - Nature reserve  Mews House  Shaftesbury Theatre The Tara Theatre in Richmond  Lancaster House  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 http://ShoutAbout.London 

The Thames is the reason that London is where it is and the river has had a decisive influence on the growth of the city since Roman Times. For 500 years it was the only reliable way to move about but in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries changes came that were to alter the face of London and transform our relationship with the river.This event is part of Totally Thames 2017 that runs from 1-30 Septemberwww.totallythames.org The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/from-royal-highway-to-common-sewer-the-river-thames-and-its-architectureGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 2,000 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

Adrian Evans of Totally Thames talks about his festival celebrating the iconic river of London. Adrian Evans has dedicated his working life to creating spectacles. For years he produced the anarchic French circus troupe Archaos, and he has overseen many music festivals, including London's Millennium celebrations. He has also "immersed" himself in the history and cultural importance of London's great river, having directed the Mayor's Thames Festival since founding the event 15 years ago. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

This week, N Quentin Woolf goes deep into the bowels of Tower Bridge to meet Iain Chambers, who's using the sounds of the bridge to create sweet music as part of the Totally Thames festival. Photo by Steve Stills. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.