Post Tagged with: "Interview"

  • Video: Bassett Street Community Garden

    Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]

     
  • Video: Rhyl Primary School growing project

    We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of the The Urban Kitchen Gardener and teacher, about the growing project that he helps run at Rhyl Primary School. It was good to see a primary school taking such a committed approach to teaching young kids. Many school have projects around gardening but […]

     
  • Mayor Johnson on the Letterman Show

    Our Mayor has been touting London’s wares in the US. Part of this involved appearing on Letterman, which is about as embarrassing as you might expect – no more, no less. I have no idea what they must think of us.

     
  • Interview: Tom Moggach, urban kitchen gardener

    We spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, about his new book and the idea of following your food from seed right through to wolfing it down. We pledge to you, here at Big Smoke, never to interview anyone with a chicken on their lap again. Hens […]

     
  • Meet Stephen Knight, newly elected Lib Dem AM

    Big Smoke spoke to newly elected Liberal Democrat Assembly Member Stephen Knight about the election, the future and who he voted second preference for Mayor.   Congratulations on your election. What was the best part of the election campaign for you (apart from it being over!)? The declaration of the […]

     
  • Big Smoke interview: Andrew Boff

    We put our questions to the London Assembly Conservative group leader, Andrew Boff. Congratulations on being re-elected last week. How was the election for you? Tiring (when it stopped my husband suggested I volunteer to distribute pizza leaflets as pushing messages through letterboxes had become a tough habit to kick) […]

     
  • Make today’s priority a cleaner London

    For the first time in a London Mayoral election environmental issues have really come to the fore. Whether it’s the glorious cycle campaigners, cutting air pollution, or how to get our public transport eco-friendly we’ve seen these issues force themselves onto the candidates in no uncertain manner. It’s estimated that […]

     
  • Big Smoke interview: Daniel Lambert, Socialist Party Great Britain

    Daniel Lambert is running for the London Assembly in the Lambeth and Southwark constituency. Unlike other candidates this gregarious and lively socialist is not running on a platform of improving cycle lanes or making things better, but on the simple policy of abolishing capitalism in its entirety. Filmed in the Socialist […]

     
  • Big Smoke Interview: Mike Tuffrey, Lib Dem Assembly Member

    We spoke to Mike Tuffrey one of the two outgoing Liberal Democrat Assembly Members three weeks ago and, two days before the election, we’ve just managed to get it up online. Sadly, due to building works that suddenly started up next to where we were filming, we’ve had to edit […]

     
  • I had that Paddick in the back of my cab

    Liberal Democrat Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick spoke to Radio Taxis on his Mayoral vision. Our view;   There are a few things to note here. a) nice theme tune. b) Brian Paddick would have us believe he calls Taxis “little black buses”. c) he is very concerned about parking around […]