Ham & High Podcast

Our guest this week is L’myah Sherae, founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Race Equality in Education, which launched in February. 
We discuss L’myah’s journey to Hampstead from Nottingham via Cambridge, what it’s like working in Westminster, and what needs to be done to improve equality in education. 

In this episode, Sally Patterson speaks to Mandu Reid, leader of the Women’s Equality Party and the party’s candidate for mayor of London. 
Mandu discusses her manifesto, her route into politics, and the party’s role in the current political landscape. 

In this episode Sally Patterson speaks to another of London’s mayoral hopefuls. He doesn’t represent one of the major political parties, he believes our democracy has come under attack, and he’s not originally from this country, which might explain his idiosyncratic look. Our guest is Count Binface. 

Speaking to Sally Patterson for this episode is another of the candidates in May’s election for the Mayor of London. 
Many listeners will recognise Hampstead's Brian Rose. In his own words, he’s “on the billboards and in the suits”, but he’s also behind the self-proclaimed free speech digital channel London Real, which has come under fire for giving a platform to dangerous conspiracy theories. 
Despite single-digit polling, he claims to be confident about his chances in the election - but then this is the era of shock election results.  

In this episode André Langlois discusses the musician Prince with rock journalist Barney Hoskyns.  April 21 marks five years since the artist’s death at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis. Although that city was an integral part of Prince’s identity, he also had an affection for London, visiting often to play shows in both arenas and small clubs. In 1994 he opened his Sign o’ the Times shop in Camden. 
Barney Hoskyns is editorial director of Rock's Backpages, the online library of music journalism, which also has its own podcast. Barney had the privilege of joining Prince’s touring party in the early ‘80s and released the book Imp of the Perverse in 1988. 
He also had a somewhat frosty encounter with the artist many years later.

This week we are launching a revamped Ham&High newspaper and, to coincide with that, editor André Langlois here interviews Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq, Labour’s shadow minister for children and early years. 
They spoke on March 4 about a whole range of subjects, from Tulip's fears for the future of nurseries, to the Royal Free Hospital, and how emergency staff there saved her son’s life. 
And the big question: Will she one day be prime minister?

Our guest this week on the Ham&High Podcast is the first of the candidates from the main political parties in the forthcoming London mayoral election. 
The Liberal Democrats’ Luisa Porritt is a Belsize councillor in Camden and a former MEP. 
Among the topics for discussion are threats to our liberty, housing and low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs). 

This week Bridget Galton meets Camden’s Conrad Khan, who is currently filming for a new series of Peaky Blinders. 
Conrad is nominated for the EE Rising Star award at this year’s BAFTAs for his performance as vulnerable teenager Tyler in the film County Lines

This week, André Langlois meets Tom Bright, who is not only a solo musical artist but heads up Islington Radio and, with Box Media, is one of the team behind Crouch End Studios and the Archway Tavern. We touch on working with Mick Jones from The Clash, and discuss what the future holds for music in London.

This week Sam Volpe meets DJ and broadcaster Edward Adoo, covering topics from the loss of the best pistachio flavour in London to the roots of knife crime. And from working in a profession with preconceptions about what voices “fit” to the joys of spinning records for packed rooms and A-list celebrities.