These are some of the other things I’ve been doing lately:
farmsubsidy.org
Using freedom of information laws to find out who gets what from the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy.
The Bike Show
A weekly half-hour radio show devoted to the art, politics, science and sheer transcendental pleasure of riding a bicycle. Broadcast on London’s best radio station Resonance 104.4 fm.
Continental Drift
Bringing London the best in continental European popular music, with style.
The London Nobody Knows
London has been home since I was seven and there’s no place I’d rather be. A touchstone is Geoffrey Fletcher’s brilliant though melancholic account of unseen London in the early 1960s. Samuel Johnson said that ‘when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life’. He was right, and so was Fletcher when he wrote that ‘a man can do everything better in London - think better, eat and cheat better, even enjoy the country better’.
I made a 45-minute documentary film about the streets where I live, drawing on historical archives and the recollections of people who’ve been living on the street since as far back as the 1930s. Why did William Blake come here to stargaze? Why has Waterloo always been home to the performing arts? What was it like here during the Blitz? And what on earth is a bag wash shop? Find out….
Listen to a podwalk (audio guided walk) of the ‘backstreets of Southwark’ that I did for the 2008 London Festival of Architecture.