The Urban Village Podcast

20/05/2020

Did someone say Summer Holidays!??

Welcome to Episode 14...

Come and meet the amazing Karen from Travel Matters who has been taking us SW Londeners on holiday for years and years! As the Summer holidays roll upon us, tune in to listen to Karen's thoughts on traveling abroad this summer (in fact anywhere!) and what its like working in travel at this very strange time.

Grab a cup of tea and enjoy!

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19/05/2020

WE HAVE MADE THE RADIO!!

We are so thrilled that The Urban Village Podcast is going to be going out twice a week on London's Riverside Radio.

Tune in on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm as each Podcast gets aired to the listeners of South London.

Grab a cuppa, find a spot in the garden and tune your radio in to listen!

https://www.riversideradio.com/schedule/

07/05/2020

Meet Alexander in Episode 13 of The Urban Village Podcast

Clapham resident Alexander is a principal at the Royal School of Ballet. In this episode he talks training in lock-down, how he will continue to keep dancing through these changing times and how he is revving up to go back to his audiences as soon as he can! Tune into listen!

Find out more about his performing over on Instagram at

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-urban-village/id1503555910

07/05/2020

We are back with a great new podcast for you all ...Episode 13! Tune in and meet Sarah and Claire from The Wiser Collective a free community program for South London that matches our amazing residents up to share skills and knowledge across generations.

Sarah and Claire had just set up Skill Share Saturday where they bought generations together to learn everything from cheese making, chess playing, knitting and much more! Listen to hear how this brilliant duo are bringing joy to families and individuals across the Borough.

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https://thewisercollective.com

The Wiser Collective, intergenerational forum for knowledge and skill-sharing in South London, UK

25/04/2020

Podcast 12! We are so thrilled to have MasterChef UK 2020 winner Thomas Frake as our Saturday guest.

Tooting resident and food lover, Thomas began baking as a child with his Granny and last week won what is arguably the most recognized cooking award in the UK...HUGE CONGRATULATIONS THOMAS!

Hear Thomas' top local foodie tips, where to go for the best Tapas in Tooting, why we should be trying to use higher welfare meat cuts where possible and how is actually on Furlough from his day job... in has never been so tasty!

Visit www.thomasfrake.com for more details of Thomas' incredible win! or .frake on Instagram

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25/04/2020

We have something great coming up for your Sat night listening...!

20/04/2020

Episode 11! Lockdown and Mobile phones are not a great combo for parents...so meet Stuart who has turned this situation into a brilliant opportunity to turn small people into budding filmmakers all within the four walls of their homes across South London!

Also hear about his experience with children's charity https://dreamflight.org who have created no less that 36 Paralympians in the UK! Please check out Struart's links below...

https://www.lemonwedgefilmclub.com

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19/04/2020

We are delighted that Mina and our friends at Uncommon SW11 are back and open ! Tuesdays through to Sundays from 9.30am onwards their doors are open again for the best coffee, groceries and some seriously good cake! Welcome Back!

15/04/2020

Episode 10 is now out! Come and meet more of our local community...

James has been a gym owner in Wandsworth for 7-years after many years as a Personal Trainer (and before that an actor!). The is based just outside Wandsworth Train Station and James talks to us about keeping his team and members engaged whilst taking training 'online' and into sitting rooms and gardens across SW London.

www.thetrainstationgym.co.uk

Next up meet multi-tasker Natasha who runs the very well know Treohans stores on Abbeville Road and who is also adapting very quickly, switching her energy from shopkeeping to her online post-grad studies in law!

10/04/2020

Tune in for Episode 9 of The Urban Village SW now live! ...Meet former musician Phil Robinson, who set up Wandsworth based environmentally friendly paint company Paint The Town Green in 2016 after gaining masses of experience as a jobbing painter in between gigging on the music scene (and appearing on Top of The Tops!).

From session work with Gary Barlow and not appearing at Glastonbury (!) to now running a unique painting and decorating company and setting up 'How To' videos with his daughter Amber and getting to work on a skateboard during CV-19. Join us for this very fun and amusing episode! Join us for this very fun and amusing episode!

https://paintthetowngreen.co.uk

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London's first environmentally friendly painting & decorating company in Wandsworth, South West London with it's own range of fine eco paints. Est 2007.

10/04/2020

Episode 8 NOW LIVE! Link below!.. tune in to hear from our celebrity chef guest, Yorkshire-born Jimmy Garcia who is fast-becoming one of the most recognizable names in British cooking. Jimmy turned his passion for ingredients and good food into his profession in 2011 when he turned his living room in local Balham (Balham Sw12) into a 25-seater restaurant.
Since then, he has featured on a range of TV shows including Sunday Brunch and This Morning and published best-selling cookbook, Social Eats, and is a regular in the UK press.
Jimmy is currently championing across Wandsworth to provide meals to those in crisis and hardship at https://www.jimmyspopup.com/donate-a-dinner

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-urban-village-jimmy-garcia/id1503555910?i=100047038655

10/04/2020

Episode 6...from the NHS Front Line at St George's Hospital Tooting ...Consultant ICU Doctor Agatha (below!) talks us through the unfolding situation, how the hospital has transformed to accept Covid Patients, how the medical centre at Excel will be used and how all your help makes a HUGE amount of difference to the nurses and medical staff. A very moving and earnest first hand account - Thank you to our NHS heroes 🙏

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