Portrait of a Londoner

As part of our series on museums and galleries, we speak with Sharon Ament, the Director of the Museum of London. We talk about the museum itself, its history and relationship with the city, as well as the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement on museums and the need for them to take an active role in the climate crisis. As always, we touch on Sharon’s personal history and what she loves about where she lives in London.

As part of our series on museums and galleries, we speak with Georgie Wemyss, the Co-Director at the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London.

Episode Summary

For the second episode in our series on museums and galleries, we speak with Katharine Alston who is Volunteer Director of the Deptford Ragged School Archive as well as leading on public engagement and learning at Imperial War Museum London

For the first episode in our series on museums and galleries, we speak with Zoe Whitley, an American curator who is Director of the Chisenhale Gallery in East London.

In this episode, Ellie Reeves MP talks about her early interest in politics and how this developed into a career after joining the Labour Party at fifteen. Ellie talks about her passion for equality and social justice and she is currently Shadow Solicitor General.

Journalist and author of Alonement Francesca Specter on embracing and valuing alone time and why she is so passionate about supporting others to do the same.

In this episode we talk to Emma Gage who is Wellbeing Campaign Manager for Business in the Community. Business in the Community is a charity, convening networks to share insight, expertise and create innovative programmes that deliver impact.

Emma is passionate about wellbeing in the workplace and works closely with organisations to improve their offering to employees, creating toolkits and policies to help support best practice.

In this episode we talk to Katty Janneh founder of the Realness in Business, working with Creatives who recognise they need to get real about their businesses so they can build a life they want by doing what they love! Katty started her career making hats before transitioning to a business career.

Katty believes that we need more creative people building wealth to create less dependency on a system that currently does not value creativity. Creatives can affect real change for themselves, those around them and the environment by circulating rather than just accumulating their wealth.

Rebecca Seal is an award-winning food and personal development writer. She has been freelance for over 10 years, and in an attempt to help other solo workers navigate, survive and thrive in the strange world of working alone, she wrote Solo: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind). It's a thoroughly researched, easy to read book, pulling on behavioural science, organisation psychology and economics. She has also written eight cookbooks!!

Mark Salter qualified in East London in 1983. In 1994 he became a Consultant in Adult General Psychiatry at St Bartholomew's and the Homerton Hospitals in London has remained in this post to the present.

He is presently responsible for the provision of adult general psychiatric care to a deprived inner city area which is extremely varied in terms of psychopathology and socio-cultural make-up. His day-to-day work routinely brings him into clinical contact with psychiatric disorders including depression, schizophrenia, PTSD and organic cerebral syndromes. His professional areas of special interests include the ethics of psychiatry, the psychopathology of trauma, substance misuse and community care.