Speakers Corner: history exhibition
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Go here for details (on till 30 April at the Bishopsgate Institute, London EC2):
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7b59ef939dffb00319d9312fd&id=b1f2f37047&e=882edacd24
The soundsfromthepark website contains interviews with past and present speakers, including three Socialist Party members.
What a cracking resource. Cheers for sharing. eta: And that's from someone who never liked Speakers Corner.
"On the Record" who have prepared this oral history of Speakers' Corner have sent us a number of complimentary copies of their booklet on this. If anyone would like a copy we will send them one in return for postage costs (50p second class stamp if in the UK or international reply coupon if abroad). Write to: 52 Clapham High St, London SW4 7UN or email spgb [at] worldsocialism.org
There's now going to be a local radio broadcast on this too on Sunday 19 January..
Here's the details.
Due to be broadcast *19th January 6pm* on Resonance FM, this half hour
program is an insider’s tour of the many faces of Speakers’ Corner,
peppered with sonic surprises. It reveals Corner’s intriguing origins, its
enduring mystique, and why people who write it off as a realm of cranks and
fanatics should think again. The show gives a taste of the incredible
archive of oral history, field recordings and photos which is nearly ready
for researchers at Bishopsgate Institute.The show features
– snippets of oral history with Speakers' Corner regulars
– entertaining archive footage of orators and hecklers past and present
– a musical adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s gallows satire “Clever Tom
Clinch” by the amazing Kalbakken.Listen online anywhere in the world: http://resonancefm.com/listen Or tune in to 104.4FM if your radio is near London Bridge! After the 19th you can download it from On the Record's website<http://soundsfromthepark.on-the-record.org.uk/radio-show/> .
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