Interview with Oliver Meek from The Rio Cinema

Nasty Women
Pearl Wise talks to Kasia Uscinska and Viv Ellis about Nasty Women, celebrating the female arts at Stour Space in Hackney Wick.

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Studio interview and live session with Phil Cosby
Jonny Virgo speaks to Hackney based singer-songwriter Phil Cosby about his new EP release Blue Daze

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This month Jonny Virgo, Pearl Wise and Sasha Edye-Lindner are joined by Kasia Uscinska and Viv Ellis from Nasty Women, an event celebrating female artists in support of women’s rights. Jessie Lawson continues her series of starting conversations and talks to random East Londoners about masturbation, we hear about a collaborative exhibition with residents from the Wedlock Barn Estate in Hoxton – Permissible Notations Of, Oliver Meek executive director of Dalston’s Rio Cinema explains why the cinema is such an important part of local heritage and singer-songwriter Phil Cosby plays live in the studio ahead his Blue Daze EP release.

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We’ve decided to create a geo-located audio tour comprising of a selection of the places we’ve explored on the show over the past 4 years. Using the brilliant app IZI travel, this isn’t a regular audio tour, more of a podcast amble. So when you find a location with some audio attached to it, find a bench, bit of grass, wall or chair and tune into our neighbourhood.
Explore EastCast’s East London

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Let’s talks about.. Masturbation
Jessie Lawson continues her starting conversations series. This month she walked around Waltham Forest and asked people for stories about masturbation. She then went to visit Nisha, a perinatal psychiatrist and sex therapist, to talk about what she’d heard.

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Permissable Notations Of
Lucia Scazzocchio caught up with artists Rosalind Fowler, Louise Ashouk and Eva Knutsdotter in their studio as they were busy sewing together props for their exhibition Permissible Notations Of in collaboration with residents of the Wedlock Barn Estate in Hoxton and currently featured at the Peer Gallery. The music you’ll hear in this piece was created with the estate residents as a live response to the films they made.

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Interview with Oliver Meek from The Rio Cinema
Oliver Meek, executive director of Rio, one of London’s few independent community cinemas talks about the history of this iconic picture palace and why they are building another screening room in the basement.

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Can I talk to you about.. Periods?
Jessie Lawson set herself a challenge. Walk from Dalston to Clapton and stop as many people as she could on the street and asked them to talk to her about periods. Then she ended up at her mum’s boat, so chatted to her mum about periods too.

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