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Pilot broadcasts - Schedule 

During the Pilot series, London Link Radio broadcast a wide range of quality programming on six Wednesday evenings in July and August 2005 - plus a special broadcast on Saturday 23rd July.  Please click on the dates for details.  


Week 1 - Wednesday 6th July
7pm - 7.30pm Welcome to LLR
Live magazine programme from FlexiSchool Acton 
With Katerina Getsevitch and Nashon Prince
Including tips on beng more green from Lucy Siegle, correspondent with The Observer
7.30pm - 8pm Education for all!
Live magazine programme including 'The trainee teacher's guide to survival' from Nneka Chukwurah and Sandra Saltzmann
8pm - 8.30pm G8 special
Make Poverty History, Millennium Development Goals, climate change and sustainability
With Hester Viney, Swazi Maini, Deniece Riley, Jan Paryag and Cathy Aitchison
With contributions from guests including Michael Meacher MP and Abiola Ogunsola, University of East London
8.30pm - 9pm World music and features
From trainees on the University of Westminster Widening Participation course

Week 2 - Wednesday 13th July
7pm - 7.30pm Welcome to LLR 
With Swazi Maini, Paul Batambuze and Reka Begum

Plus: at around 7.20pm: 
Comedy - R J Freddy Presents

7.30pm - 8pm Environment and sustainability
With Swazi Maini, Anna Karhammar, Stine Dulong and Sophie Glass
With contributions from guests including Malcolm Allen of London Waste Action and Penney Poyzer, environment expert and presenter of BBC2's 'No Waste Like Home'
8pm - 8.30pm Millennium Development Goals 
What do you know about the Millennium Development Goals? 
With Swazi Maini, Dana Gornitzki and Cathy Aitchison  
With contributions from guests including Felicia Onibon, from the Nigerian organisation CSACEFA, which promotes education for all
 
Plus: at around 8.20pm: 
Riverside drama
:
Last Chance by Azieb Zerai
8.30pm - 9pm Camden Central Radio - Somers Town Festival Special
Reports and music from the Somers Town Festival of Cultures, Saturday 9th July
With Dan Walker Smith 

Including music from the Ethio Traditional Band and from Musical Flying Squad's production 'Cutting the Wire'

Week 3 - Wednesday 20th July
7pm - 7.30pm London Link Radio Showcase
With Swazi Maini and Paul Batambuze
Including London Green Lifestyle Show report by Fari Bradley
   
Plus: at around 7.20pm: 
Comedy - R J Freddy Presents
7.30pm - 8pm Family issues
Live magazine programme 
With Hester Viney, Vanessa Reddick, Iyabo Oba and Tamsin Clements 
With contributions from guests including Jess and Bob Read, co-founders of the As 2 Become 3 course for expectant parents, and Alan Franks, author of the play Previous Convictions
8pm - 8.30pm Music programme - "Outerglobe: Women's music vibes" 
With Debbie Golt aka DJ Debbie  
Including an interview with Cheng Yu, one of the Women in Music Commission Award winners
Fabulous tracks by brilliant women + possibly a slot from Warrior Women, flourishing USA women's music network.
 
Plus: at around 8.25 pm:
Riverside drama:
The Tourist by Matthew Snowdon
8.30pm - 9pm Family Ties - by Ruth-Anne Lynch
Documentary about a trip Ruth-Anne Lynch made to Guyana earlier this year to visit her parents.  She had planned to travel around Guyana with her father to do some family research and to bond with her Dad.  During the trip he became ill and was hospitalised twice.  "We all (including himself) thought he was dying," she says.  "Luckily he pulled through but it really brought the Lynch family together."  The documentary is about the events prior to, during and after his illness.  It was submitted as a piece of work for her Documentary and Experimental Radio module at the University of Sunderland

Week 3 - Saturday 23rd July
2pm - 8pm
A special broadcast including programmes from trainees on the Women's Radio Group Living Learning course and the University of Westminster Widening Participation course
Also including:  Irish music from Camden, comedy from Mary McKenna and Riverside drama
2pm - 4pm Irish Music
With Les Coughlan
Irish music from Northern Celts and other Irish musicians playing live in Camden
4pm - 5pm Trinjan 
With members of Trinjan Asian women's group based in West London:  Inderjit, Manpreet, Harbans, Jatinder, Usha, Shashi, Susan, Mindu and Mohinder
5pm - 5.30pm London Link Radio showcase
 
5.30pm - 6pm London Link Radio showcase
 
6pm - 7pm Panjabi programme
With Harjinder Kaur, Harjeet Kaur and Chindoo Kaur
Including items on Jago (Panjabi folk dancing), the place of women in Panjabi society and being a presenter on Desi Radio
7pm - 7.30pm London link Radio showcase
Including comedy:  R J Freddy presents ... 
Plus information on writing and producing comedy from guests Mary McKenna and Julie Walker
7.30pm - 8pm London Link Radio showcase
Including Riverside Drama:
Miss Dorchester's Visitor by Philip Lauder
Fear by Semina Bayouth
Sorry Babe by Simone Millwood

Week 4 - Wednesday 27th July
7pm - 7.30pm London Link Radio showcase - Blaze Radio
With Swazi Maini and Paul Batambuze
Features from Blaze Radio by students at Preston Manor City Learning Centre in Brent
 
Plus: at around 7.20pm: 
Comedy - R J Freddy Presents
7.30pm - 8pm The Latino Link - Latin culture in London/UK
With Nneka Chukwurah, Jessica Lopez and Sandra Saltzmann 
Including reports on Brazilian culture in London, interview with Enrique, salsa musician, plus a round up of what's on 
8pm - 8.30pm Arts, entertainment, information, what's on 
With Jan Paryag 
With guests and features including JustWRITE, writing workshop and support organisation for women writers, and a report on the Thames 21 Clean up Day (Sat-Sun 23/24 July) by Antonie Boegner
8.30pm - 9pm Women in Wartime  
Writings, readings, songs and reminiscences with Cathy Aitchison and Dana Gornitzki
Including information on the BBC WW2 People's War project

Week 5 - Wednesday 3rd August
7pm -  Live programming from trainees on the Women's Radio Group Living Learning course, including:
  • Africa Focus with Helene Lembanaka and Helen Rowe.  Including information and readings from the Africa Audio Visual Library and reports from the Celebrating Africa event at the British Museum  
  • Algerian Music programme with Nacira Lebnaoui-Mansour
7.30pm - 8pm Live magazine
With Deniece Riley and Swazi Maini
Including a feature on young people's language by Deniece Riley, a report on brownfield sites by Antonie Boegner, and a report on gay parents adopting by Nina Tietzel
8pm - 8.30pm Drama special:
Blood Ties by Ruth-Anne Lynch (University of Sunderland)
8.30pm - 9pm Live magazine programme on animals
With Clare Sherman 
Including interviews with the Blue Cross and Help the Aged
9pm-10pm Camden Central Radio and live Irish music

Week 6 - Wednesday 10th August
7pm - 7.30pm Live music programme
With photographer Frédérique Cifuentes
Celebrating the work of the Kwoto Dance Company, from South Sudan, who will be taking part in the International Workshop Festival in London in October 
7.30pm - 8.30pm Live magazine programme 
Focusing on health, sustainability and ethical living
 
with Swazi Maini, Sophie Glass and Milly Hartley
Including an interview with Guardian journalist Leo Hickman, author of A Good Life and A Life Stripped Bare (interviewed by Sophie Glass), plus reports from natural health practitioner Milly Hartley on eating disorders and on stress relief, and information on recycling in Camden 
 
Plus at around 8.15pm:  
RISE 2005
With Shahbana Rehman
Music and reports from the RISE festival 2005, including an interview with the band Moroccan Roll Convention, plus Asian ballads
8.30pm - 9pm African Essence: 
New vibes and favourite tracks plus African music news and views 
With Debbie Golt aka DJ Debbie and Anne Wanjie  
9pm - 10pm  Camden Central Radio
Live magazine programme with Rosie Sanders and Les Coughlan and other members of Camden Central Radio
Including: a report on the King's Cross Forum's visit to BedZed (the Beddington Zero Energy Development in South London); poetry and photography from Angela Inglis; music and information from Youth Initiatives 
Plus: live music and chat from Les Coughlan and the Northern Celts
10 pm - 10.30 pm

London Muslims' Response to the London Bombings
Live magazine programme with Maryam Ali, one of the trainees on the Living Learning course


Week 6 - Plus
   Music documentary
Freddy Gerrard interviews his brother, musician Max Gerrard
   RISE 2005 with Shahbana Rehman
Music and reports from the RISE festival 2005, including an interview with the band Moroccan Roll Convention, plus Asian ballads

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