Sat 31 July - Neil Emmanuel - Illustrating the Middle Ages

 Neil Emmanuel chats about illustrating the Middle Ages Music includes old songs from Russian Romani tradition and Napoli and features a special pre-release from new British folk-pop project Bobby Bluff.

Sat 31 July - Neil Emmanuel - Illustrating the Middle Ages

Sat 24 July - Summertime in Sussex

Summery choices from the Simon King record collection to soundtrack the heatwave, plus reports from the arts scene at St Leonards & Hastings in Sussex as the lockdown is lifted.

The News Agents - Summertime in Sussex - Sat 24 July

Sat 17 July - Emily & Alice Haworth-Booth - Protest

PROTEST. Emily and Alice Haworth-Booth share stories from the international history of campaigning. Their new book Protest! looks at peaceful resistance from 195 BCE to the present day. Plus selected songs and music that have promoted social change and highlighted injustice.

Listen Again - Sat 17 July 2021 - Emily & Alice Haworth-Booth - Protest 

Sat 10 July - Lorraine Bowen - Songwriting and Sussex

Composer and comedian Lorraine Bowen talks songwriting and we discuss life on the South East Coast of England. As venues and exhibitions begin to reopen in the summer, thoughts on the arts and social scene in Hastings and East Sussex. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com

 Listen Again - Lorraine Bowen - We Are Nature

Sat 3 July - Gemma Seltzer - Ways of Living - Women's Stories in London

Gemma Seltzer on her new book 'Ways of Living'. In ten stories she explores what it means to be a modern woman inhabiting the urban landscape and we discuss ways of writing about women living in the city of London. Plus music by women songwriters on city life and more.

 

Listen Again - Gemma Seltzer - Ways of Living - Writing Womens Stories in London 

Sat 26 June - Dave Clarkson - Avant Garde Music of Manchester

Looking back at the experimental and avant-garde period of the post-punk period at the early 1980s and beyond. Plus selections chosen by collector, composer and long-term musician Dave Clarkson who has is a keen supporter of today's DIY bandcamp culture. 

 Listen Again - Dave Clarkson - Avant Garde Music of Manchester

 

Sat 3 July - Gemma Seltzer - Ways of Living - Women in London

 Gemma Seltzer on her new book 'Ways of Living'. In ten stories she explores what it means to be a modern woman inhabiting the urban landscape and we discuss ways of writing about women living in the city of London. Plus music by women songwriters on city life and more. For more information see thenewsagents.blogspot.com

 

Listen Again - Sat 3 July - Gemma Seltzer - Ways of Living