Emmanuel is a filmmaker, writer, director, journalist and broadcaster and founder of BUFF (British Urban Film Festival). We discover shared fond memories of 70s TV, nerdy fonts love and pre-Disco Soul plus updates on BUFF now being available on Apple TV!
Dan de la Motte is a writer, performer, historian, curator and creator. He is also on the Equity committee for Variety, Circus and Entertainers. Lil and Dan chat about being a working class artistes and Queer Activism and of course all things London. Especially mourning the demise of the proper cafe, boating accidents and Mum Rock.
Katy Baker is a singer, actor writer and director. She is currently working with Flat & The Curves. Katy is also a cabaret compere in various venues in and around London. We talk here about influences grandparents have on artists and what it mean to be a Londoner.
Amii Griffith is Development Producer with Free At Last TV and currently Script Associate on the hit series AGATHA RAISIN (based on the books by MC Beaton and starring Ashley Jensen).
Amii chats to Lil from on location in the Cotswolds. They blether about South East London, where Amii was born and still lives, how being a little sis you just have to take what line you are given, that going to University is not the be all and end all and why she supports Arsenal!
Satema is a second-generation, British Sierra Leonean South Londoner is forging a successful career as an Assistant Producer on a number of critically acclaimed one-off documentaries.
Here Lil and Satema talk about the importance of education to break down class barriers, the difference in Carnivals worldwide, and the road to JOY!
This fabulously interesting and wide ranging episode is with Coventry-born (and one of the few women in the UK who is a fully qualified Helmsman) Lindsey Hood. We recorded, on location, on the Grand Union Canal as guests on board Lindsey's narrowboat, Seresha.
An eclectic chat about rock n roll, growing up in the city of Two-Tone, bringing up a child on a narrowboat, life as a Continuous Cruiser and the move to being a skipper. Lindsey also tells us about her Scottish and Northern ancestry, her Great-grandfather's Music Hall career (as Felix Burns) and her Grandfather's life as a violinist and how her family ended up in Coventry.
