Camden Community Radio

This week on CCRadio we have an episode of Violet and Freddy’s psychology series Tearing Us Apart. The theme is appropriate for now—Isolation!

This was recorded before the coronavirus pandemic started, but it still seems relevant to play now.

Package by: Violet Macdonald and Freddy Chick

File download (17:57 mins | 25 MB)

This week we welcomed Candy Praise to the CCRadio studio. Candy’s full of ideas for podcasts to make at CCRadio and Freddy sat down with her to hear about them.

Look out for Candy’s podcasts on CCRadio soon !

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Streetsfest is a festival bringing together different grassroots homeless organisations in Finsbury Park. It happens at the end of each summer and last year CCRadio’s Bonny Astor and Freddy Chick went along to cover it. It’s taken a while for the piece to be edited! So let us whisk you back to a warm summer’s evening in Finsbury Park…

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How to run a prison—interview with former prison officer Veronica Bird

Package by: Violet Macdonald

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Welcome to Camden’s Hidden Treasures hosted by Bonny Astor and featuring the Camden Tour Guides and their favourite secret places!

In this episode, Camden Tour Guide Brian explains why he admires Thomas Coram and the creative way he helped some of Camden’s most vulnerable residents.

Package by: Bonny Astor

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Welcome to Camden’s Hidden Treasures hosted by Bonny Astor and featuring the Camden Tour Guides and their favourite secret places!

This atmospheric episode is set in the ‘undercroft’ at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Camden Tour Guide David reads us a fitting poem and tells us about some of the literary connections of this secret place.

Package by: Bonny Astor

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Welcome to Camden’s Hidden Treasures hosted by Bonny Astor and featuring the Camden Tour Guides and their favourite secret places!

In this episode Camden Tour Guide Sylvia tells Bonny about Elizabeth Garett Anderson, one of the most impressive doctors in Camden’s history and a woman of many ‘firsts’.

Package by: Bonny Astor

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Only six weeks too late, Violet and Freddy embark on a Halloween Special! They examine the psychology of the paranormal as well as swapping a couple of scary stories along the way.

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Samantha’s guest in the studio is Ceejay, an up-and-coming artist from Loughton in Essex. Ceejay talks about his new album and promotional effort as well as telling Samantha about how music came into his life as a young boy with a lot on his shoulders.

Interview by Samantha Russell. Edited by Freddy Chick

File download (24:06 mins | 33 MB)

David Elvis is an Elvis impersonator from Islington who has built up quite a name for himself over the years. You may well know of him already and if you don’t, then this is your chance to learn! His good friend Samantha Russell invited him down to CCRadio for a chat ahead of his upcoming gig at the Dublin Castle on Tuesday 26th.

File download (8:26 mins | 12 MB)