Social Broadcasts

Spirit of Invention - A quick history mashup from the archives of John Logie Baird demonstrating the world's first live working television system in 1926.

Dr Patrick O’Hare, Social Anthropologist at the University of St Andrews, takes Cartonera to Scotland.

Cartonera is a publishing movement that grew out of the Argentine economic crisis of 2001. They became known as ‘cartoneros’, after the cartón (cardboard) that they collected on the streets of cities such as Buenos Aires. Since then, the Cartonera model has spread across Latin America and the world. Each Cartonera publisher is different: some continue to work with wastepickers, others with indigenous groups; some focus on poetry, others prose or political texts.

Patrick initiated the first Cartonera project in Scotland, a collaboration with the Creative Change Collective (CCC), a charity working with people in recovery from addiction and in the criminal justice system. CCC tackles social problems through the creative arts, building community and empowering people, an approach that chimes with the cartonera ethos.

CCC heard about Cartonera and invited Patrick to deliver a series of workshops at which the group would make a Cartonera book out of anonymous drama scripts. Participants would learn a new craft and build on the momentum of their arts-based recovery by creating a book series that could be distributed amongst participants, friends, family, policymakers, and an interested public.

In the podcast, you hear the voices of Gary, Teresa, Donna, Emma and Catherine, who attended the workshops, as well as Jo, Anne-Marie and Lorraine, Mark McNicol from CCC, Liam Meechan from AbbeyCare Scotland, Scotland’s Minister for Drug and Alcohol Policy Elena Whitham, and performers at the Paisley event. Thank you to everyone at CCC who participated in this podcast, which was funded by a Small Impact Award from the University of St Andrews and produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts.

As you walk between the two sites listen to a short audio feature exploring how the docks have always been a place of mixing and mingling as workers and goods came from overseas via this gateway into the city. Founder of Poetry vs Colonialism Laila Sumpton, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust and UCL historian Dr Anna Maguire highlight the Bengali seamen known as Lascars.

This series of Audio Postcards is produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts as part of Sea Change, commissioned by the Royal Docks Team in collaboration with University College London and curated by Invisible Dust.

Featuring the voices of Laila Sumpton, Ansar Ahmed Ullah from the Swadhinata Trust, Dr Anna Maguire and members of the Royal Wharf Community Dock ESOL learning group. The poem Jamdani Weavers, by Laila Sumpton (co-founder of Poetry Vs Colonialism and member of the London Sea Shanty Collective)

Wild Goose is performed by the London Sea Shanty Collective.

Artist Simon Faithfull has been immersed in the fascinating world of bees since he met beekeeper Dale Gibson from Bermondsey Bees. Dr Izzy Bishop from UCL’s Nature Labs reveals how everything in nature is connected and how the river plays a part in this.

This series of Audio Postcards is produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts as part of Sea Change, commissioned by the Royal Docks Team in collaboration with University College London and curated by Invisible Dust.

Featuring the voices of Simon Faithfull, Dale Gibson, Dr Izzy Bishop and Dilawar Hussain from Thames 21

Join artist Melanie Manchot and UCL historian Dr Anna Maguire on the day of filming with some of the inspiring local women who joined this female flotilla sailing across the Royal Docks.

This series of Audio Postcards is produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts as part of Sea Change, commissioned by the Royal Docks Team in collaboration with University College London and curated by Invisible Dust.

Featuring the voices of Melanie Manchot, Dr Anna Maguire, Maddie Philips and Councilor Thelma Odoi. On site recording by Eleanor Wright and Katherine Liggins.

Listen to Monica Narula and Jeebesh Bagchi from Raqs Media Collective, Dr Tristan Smith, researcher at UCL and director of UMAS, shipping historian Maddie Philips and poet Laila Sumpton examine our relationship with the sea and the shipping industry how this is changing in a moment of climate crisis.

This series of Audio Postcards is produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts as part of Sea Change, commissioned by the Royal Docks Team in collaboration with University College London and curated by Invisible Dust.

Featuring the voices of Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi, Dr Tristan Smith, Laila Sumpton and Maddie Philips. Rolling down the River is sung by the London Sea Shanty Collective.

Hear how socially engaged artist Dana Olărescu and Associate Professor Julia Tomei from UCL’s Institute of Sustainable Resources worked with members of the Royal Wharf community ESOL class to think about themes of energy supplies and resources and how we can work better as a community..

This series of Audio Postcards was produced by Lucia Scazzocchio from Social Broadcasts as part of Sea Change, commissioned by the Royal Docks Team in collaboration with University College London and curated by Invisible Dust.

Featuring the voices of Dana Olărescu, Dr Julia Tomei and members of the Royal Wharf Community Dock ESOL learning group.

The Regent's Park Estate Community Festival (Saturday 6th August 2022) captured through sound with conversations captured from the local residents and organisations.

Audio recording and storytelling commissioned by Old Diorama Arts Centre

Recorded and edited by Lucia Scazzocchio

The Girl Who Found Things (CBS Mystery Theatre) by Lucia Scazzocchio

Song Of A Road (M1) by Lucia Scazzocchio