Bloomsbury Radio chats to Simon Woodman about the Community Climate Action event at the Bloomsbury Festival. Please see: https://www.bloomsbury.org.uk/community-climate-action1/ for more details.

Barra Fitzgibbon from Bloomsbury Radio talks to Sylvia McNamara, chair of Camden Tour Guides Association and accredited Camden and City of London guide about a walk Sylvia will be leading entitled 'NIGHTTIME AIR OF THE SQUARES'. Living in Kentish Town, Sylvia is a passionate enthusiast of Camden and loves the history of Bloomsbury. For more details about the event, please see: https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/nighttime-air-of-the-squares/

Roberta Wedge talks about her upcoming 'Mary Wollstonecraft's Bloomsbury' guided tour. 

“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” was written on Store Street, arguing for equal education for rich & poor, boys & girls together, at state expense. A radical idea! We salute its author by walking the streets she knew, hearing stories of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft in the smoky capital and its surrounding fresh-air villages (including Newington Green, where Maggi Hambling’s statue drew international attention in 2020). She lived and wrote in a circle of liberals and radicals, and like some later nearby writers, she too had an unconventional love life. Virginia Woolf said Wollstonecraft’s relationship with anarchist philosopher William Godwin was her “most fruitful experiment”; their daughter was Mary (“Frankenstein”) Shelley, whose memorial plaque we will pass.

Born the same year as the British Museum, Wollstonecraft spent her life searching for freedom: liberating her sister from an unhappy marriage, travelling to Paris to observe the unfolding revolution (our first female war correspondent), falling in love with an American adventurer and planning a life on the frontier with him.

To book on to the event, please visit: https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/mary-wollstonecrafts-bloomsbury/

Interview with the Honourable Alice Walpole OBE, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, Director of Goodenough College.

Goodenough College are hosting two events at this years Bloomsbury Festival:

Dreams & Tales

https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/dreams-tales/

Garden Unlocked

https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/garden-unlocked3/

With just days to go, we spoke to Sally Pomme Clayton, the pioneering storyteller and writer behind The Magician’s Apprentice which takes place on Thursday 20 October at the Museum of Comedy. Pomme’s show is set to explore the secret world of the magician. To book tickets, please see: https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/the-magicians-apprentice/

Barry Wishart from Grange Hotels tells us what he's looking forward to the most at this years Bloomsbury Festival.

Rosemary Richards, Director for the Bloomsbury Festival tells us what to look out for at this years Bloomsbury Festival.

Interview with Dr Tim Coker FRSA about his brand-new absurdist comedy which comes to Bloomsbury Festival fresh from sell-out performances at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. To find out more, please see: https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/7-seventeen-year-olds-in-a-screwed-up-world/