field recordings redux

As we start to think about a third series, here are a selection of field recordings from the previous two series on Resonance fm, starting with the credo by which Continue reading →

Nick on Newsnight feature about deep topography

This is possibly Nick’s finest hour (even with the hat on). A great Newsnight feature about Deep Topography and psychogeography including interviews with Iain Sinclair, Will Self, Russell Brand and Continue reading →

Final podcast of the series

In this final episode of the series, we take you on a lop-sided perambulation through ‘remote London’ from the north-west passage at Brent Cross to the eastern Gateway on the Continue reading →

Video: Tilbury – an estuarine odyssey

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The Lost Pleasure Gardens of Finsbury and Pentonville

There are various ways you gain an impression of a place and develop a curiosity about it, which eventually inspires research and expeditions. It might be a view from a Continue reading →

An Octopus and the Essex Maidens: a visit to Ilford in the county of Essex

One summer’s morning back in 1971, my Dad, my brother Stavros and I set out by taxi from our home in Burnt Oak to spend a week by the sea Continue reading →

The Eastern Queen – Ilford

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Video: Across the marshes: Plumstead to Cross Ness

Plumstead to Cross Ness along the Southern Outfall Sewer

What was the pull of the southern outfall sewer? Waste disposal converted into green utility, a paragraph in a government urban open spaces report, greenwashing a soon to be deleted Continue reading →

The coming of the age of Scarp

A vast yet largely invisible presence hovers over the northern suburbs of London. Screened from the consciousness of the city-dweller by the pressures of the day-to-day; by TV, self-concern and Continue reading →