Last week we spoke to Alice Haworth-Booth of Climate Rush about their organisation, direct action and things coming up. You may notice that the interview has a heavy cold, but I managed to stay on my feet until the interview was over. Ever the professional you see.
In the last parts of our interview with Beatrix Campbell we discussed Conservative women and then feminism in the eighties. Feminism and the eighties
David Mentiply spoke to the Blackheath society about their 75th anniversary. Q: The Blackheath Society is 75 years old this year. What do you imagine the founding members of the Society would make of Blackheath today? What have been the most significant changes and events over the years? They would […]
In the second part of our interview with Camden’s Beatrix Campbell we discuss the green agenda and whether it is a good thing that the mainstream parties have adopted it as their own.
This week Big Smoke spoke to Karin Robinson, Vice-Chair of Democrats Abroad UK. We discussed organising US citizens in the UK to vote in the Presidential elections and why she felt it was important to vote the right way. In the other part of the interview we discussed some of […]
Big Smoke met up with Kerry Johnson, co-founder of the Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance, who has been organising pro-choice vigils every Sunday against anti-abortion activists who have been harassing women outside the BPAS clinic. The Bloomsbury Pro-Choice Alliance was set up to raise awareness of the attempts by 40 Days for […]
On Monday Big Smoke spoke to the UK Independence Party London Mayoral candidate, Lawrence Webb. Somehow we managed to find the noisiest rooftop in London to put our questions to him, but the views were very nice so hopefully you’ll forgive the background noise. We were speaking on top of […]
Having had few conversations with people over the last weeks about interview technique at Big Smoke it seems like a good time to pass on the theory, even if it’s still developing. In the media generally there are two archetypal approaches to interviews. The old fashioned “and is there anything else […]
I spoke to film maker Charles Honderick about his forthcoming Tale of Two Barnets at the studios in the Mill Hill Music Complex. Indeed we recorded the interview in the very studios used by the Damned and Morrissey no less. In the interview we discussed Barnet council’s “controversial” approach to […]
Big Smoke had a long chat with Camden’s veteran feminist and author Beatrix Campbell last weekend. We managed to go on talking for far too long so we’ve split the interview into three and in this first part she talks about the relationship between working class and gender politics.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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