Ham & High Podcast

On the 50th anniversary of the International Wages for Housework Campaign, Frankie Lister-Fell spoke to activist, writer and campaigner Selma James.
Selma co-founded Kentish Town’s Women's Crossroads Road Centre in 1975, and it is the longest standing women's centre in London. Selma speaks about the campaign’s success, initial resistance from feminists, and how, if at all, things have improved for women and unpaid carers across the world.  

Speaking to André Langlois this week is writer, comedian, bibliophile, scientist’s foil and creator of this April’s biggest Christmas celebration Robin Ince.
Familiar to a wide audience these days through the Infinite Monkey Cage, with Professor Brian Cox, Robin constantly has other projects on the go, from stage and radio shows to a new book in the works.
The comedy, music, science and arts show Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People was postponed due to Covid, but is coming to Kings Place in April.

In this episode of the Ham&High Podcast, marking International Women's Day, André Langlois chats with engineer Dame Jo Da Silva. 
With vast experience working in disaster zones, Muswell Hill’s Dame Jo is currently global director of sustainable development at the company Arup. 
She received her damehood, and previously a CBE, for work in international development and for her contribution to humanitarian relief. 
We recorded this podcast on February 3, 2022, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

On the Ham&High Podcast this week, Sally Patterson talks to Dr Ally Jaffee, who is a working junior doctor and the co-founder of Nutritank, which promotes the importance of food and nutrition in medicine. Earlier this year, she received a Diana Award, a scheme launched in memory of Princess Diana. Here, Ally discusses the role of food in medicine and some practical tips for good eating.

On this week’s podcast we turn our attention to Glasgow (slightly to the north of the Ham&High’s distribution area) to discuss the COP26 climate summit. Sally Patterson talks to professor of earth system science Mark Maslin, and André Langlois hears from Laura Marks, founder of Mitzvah Day, chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and an interfaith consultant.

This week André Langlois speaks to Crouch End's Phoebe Morgan. As well as being the author of four novels to date – including this year’s The Wild Girls – Phoebe is editorial director at Harper Collins, responsible for crime novels and thrillers. We discuss her career, as well as the million dollar questions: How do you write a book and how do you get published?
Visit phoebemorganauthor.com and, of course, www.hamhigh.co.uk

In the first episode of season 3 of the Ham&High Podcast, Bridget Galton speaks to former Labour leader, and current shadow business secretary, Ed Miliband. A Camden stalwart, Ed has a book out titled Go Big: How to Fix Our World. He’s also a podcast veteran, recording the long-running Reasons to be Cheerful with Geoff Lloyd. In this interview he discusses the big issues of the world today, as well as his north London upbringing and the challenges of juggling politics and family life. The episode was recorded on July 23, 2021. 

André Langlois speaks to journalist and former Number 10 communications chief Alastair Campbell and journalist and education campaigner Fiona Millar about life with serious mental health challenges, as documented in Alastair's book, Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression.
This episode is an interview from the live online event Ham&High: Our Community's Mental Health, held on May 21, 2021. 
The conversation ranges from changes needed in the health services and education to Eric Clapton and the joys of Burnley FC and Hampstead Heath.

On May 21 we held Ham&High: Our Community’s Mental Health – a day of online events around wellbeing. 
We’ll be releasing some of the sessions in the coming weeks and we start with a really fun discussion around comedy.
Joining Ham&High editor André Langlois were stand-ups Charlie George and Rich Wilson, Tash Alexander from the social enterprise Head Held High, and comedy star in the making Ro Dodgson.
The discussion covered the zen of lockdown, the importance of listening, re-evaluating your life, performing on Zoom, and the comfort to be found in cat videos, Hannah Gadsby and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

In this episode, Michael Boniface chats with the amazing composer, singer, songwriter and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson. 
Ayanna lives in Hornsey and this year released an EP, Rise Up, featuring Akala, as a celebration of her Jamaican heritage. 
She talks about the music she loves, her path to success and the important roles her school and teachers played.