Water Talk

Belatedly, a bit of blurb from the September Hackney Podcast:

Author and psycho-geographer Iain Sinclair follows the route of Hackney Brook, a subterranean ghost river which runs from Highbury to Hackney Wick.  Then to Clissold Leisure Centre for Wet Sounds, a new music event in which electro-acoustic composers Francisco Lopez, Stefano Tedesco, Tom Haines and Leafcutter John serenade their floating audience through speakers above and below the water.  Moving on to London Fields Lido, architectural historian Simon Inglis explains how swimming pools in Hackney have their roots in the wash houses set up by 19th-century philanthropists in the battle against cholera.

Listen to it here.

Comments

[violetstone]

HI Dave, what is the Hackney Podcast and who does it? Sounds interesting. I never seem to have the time for things like that, feel I should.

[DaveHill]

Hello Violet. The Hackney Podcast is the work of the Guardian's Francesca Panetta - something she fits in in her spare time, which is pretty amazing given how productive she is in her proper job.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/francescapanetta

[violetstone]

Cheers for that, I should download it and then I could listen to it on the bus.