POLITICAL IMAGINATION

Live audio recording of readings by Red Poets at the launch of their 30th anthology at Caffi Soar in Merthyr Tydfil. Introductions between readings by Mike Jenkins.

My poem S T O P written on 27th May following the killing of Palestinians as they slept in their tents in Gaza.

Blood & Roses - (A message to Keir Starmer.)

A refugee from planet Earth
Came by my house today
He asked me if I had some work,
A place where he could stay.

I took him in, I gave him tea,
I made him up a bed.
I bandaged up his broken knee.
I washed his bloody head.

Set him onto mowing my lawn
Trimming my hedge, digging my veg.

I wash all the blood,
He cuts the roses.
My near neighbourhood
Look down their noses.

We are happy here,
With blood and roses,
The blood and roses,
Those blood red roses,

Harry Rogers, Harriboy’s Hut, 30th October, 2016.

This episode features a clip of a phone in to the BBC Radio Merseyside Lisa Marrey Show on July 22nd 2022 and features a fantastic contribution from a woman called Mary from the Save Liverpool Women's Hospital Campaign. It highlights exactly how this Government is destroying the whole of the NHS right before our very eyes. It is so well put and deserves to shared far and wide. If you are interested in the Take Back The NHS Campaign you can email them for information at [email protected] .

A view from the left as us three old red robin comrades from Undod Chwith Cymru/Left Unity Wales chat and rant about politics past and present, discuss current events, publicise campaigns, occasionally invite guests to join the mayhem, and generally try to bring their 250 years of shared life experience to bear on the issues that they want to. As Studs Terkel said "We live, we hope, we act.", We're not stopping just because we're in our eighth decade.  This first episode features Craig Lewis, Harry Rogers and Len Arthur having a chinwag about democracy and socialism. Solidarity comrades. 

Public online meeting held on Thursday 23rd June 2022 organised by Left Unity, chaired by Kate Hudson with Daniele Obono MP - La France Insoumise, Chris Hazard MP - Sinn Fein, Thelma Walker former MP - People's Alliance Of The Left. 

A view from the left as us three old red robin comrades chat and rant about politics past and present, discuss current events, publicise campaigns, occasionally invite guests to join the mayhem, and generally try to bring their 250 years of shared life experience to bear on the issues that they want to. As Studs Terkel said "We live, we hope, we act.", We're not stopping just because we're in our eighth decade.  This first episode features Craig, Harry and Len having a discussion about democracy and socialism. Solidarity comrades. This is a test and the discussion is not recorded yet. come back in a few days and it will be up here. 

Studs Terkel interview from 2003 aged 91. He speaks of his life and his latest book Hopes Dies Last. This is a joy to listen to and shows us all what radio can do. Much of what he says still rings bells today and we need his like in our lives. Truly an inspiration for us all in the days of turmoil. 

An interview by Harry Rogers with Adam Johannes from Cardiff Stop The War Coalition

The Political Imagination interview 6th March 2021. Harry Rogers interviews Len Arthur from Left Unity Wales about some of the current issues around Wales and the Global Economy.