Eastside Stories

Eastside Community Heritage

Fortnightly stories from our archive of over 1700 interviews with East Londoners.

  • 15 minutes 19 seconds
    Caring Voices
    This podcast was created for our project Caring Stories, made possible by Newham’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Community Grant. The podcast was made during six workshops run by Eastside Community Heritage with a group of carers based in Newham to share their stories and make their voices heard for the caring community. The sound clips used in the podcast are taken from interviews with a group of carers during community oral history and podcasting workshops, where participants recorded each other. These are their stories. You can access a transcript of the podcast here: https://eastsidech-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/aiden_ech_org_uk/EWc3irA198VPnVWb6WVim2YB8xO0k7awBREpyi6lyjmE6Q?e=fgKp1c
    15 December 2023, 3:28 pm
  • 11 minutes 2 seconds
    Black History Month 2023 Podcast: Sisterhood at School 360
    In this podcast , we will be hearing from two black women who works at School 360 in Stratford. Andrea Silvain, Co-headteacher, and Charmaine Blake, Senior Administrator, will be telling us about how themselves and other black women have personified sisterhood by supporting one another through their careers and personal lives. 
    31 October 2023, 10:10 am
  • 10 minutes 32 seconds
    Black History Month 2023 Podcast: Somali Women's Stories
    This podcast shares sound clips from our project Home from Home: Somali Women's Stories, which were recorded as oral histories by young women from members of Somali Senior Citizens Club in Tower Hamlets. In the podcast, our volunteer Patrick pieces together oral histories from different women who all moved to London from Somali in the 1960s and 70s. 
    29 September 2023, 3:35 pm
  • 21 minutes 11 seconds
    Stories from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Opening Ceremonies
    This podcast uses oral histories from our Tubular Bells and Copper Flowers project, that focuses on the experiences of local Londoners involved in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic opening ceremonies. The sound clips in this podcast have been chosen and edited by Newham residents in a podcast workshop run by Eastside Community Heritage at London Stadium Learning, for Newham Heritage Month. 
    30 June 2022, 8:46 am
  • 10 minutes 3 seconds
    Local History Month podcast - Moving Into Marks Gate and North Chadwell Heath
    In this podcast for Local History Month, we hear from residents and former residents of Marks Gate and North Chadwell Heath about their experiences of the developing areas in the 1950s and early 1960s. The oral histories featured in this podcast were recorded for our project, Remembering Marks Gate and North Chadwell Heath.
    20 May 2022, 2:15 pm
  • 6 minutes 30 seconds
    Appliance of Science
    This year marks 100 years since women over the age of 30 received the vote – an important occasion Eastside wishes to celebrate. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, Appliance of Science tells the story of women in East London and how advancements in domestic technology has impacted on the role of women in society.
    23 November 2018, 2:39 pm
  • 11 minutes 48 seconds
    Episode 52: Jazz
    This episode features a wide range of oral histories — collected between 1999 and 2017 — giving a picture of how the cultural significance of jazz changed, from the Charleston Era of the 1920s and 1930s, to the counterculture of the 1960s.
    3 August 2017, 1:38 pm
  • 8 minutes 10 seconds
    Women's History Month- We're Not Finished!
    We're Not Finished! is Eastside's project for Women'sd HIstory Month 2016. It looks at womens activism in the East End with a particular focus on gender inequality. This podcast looks at the roles unions have played in these campaigns.
    4 March 2016, 5:09 pm
  • 9 minutes 43 seconds
    LGBT History Month 2016 - Section 28
    In this podcast we celebrate LGBT History Month and discuss the impact of Section 28.
    10 February 2016, 2:10 pm
  • 6 minutes 46 seconds
    There’s no Business Like Show Business
    In this podcast people share their stories of going to the cinema and the theatre in East London.
    1 February 2016, 10:59 am
  • 5 minutes 19 seconds
    New Year New You - 2016
    In this podcast we discuss the relevance of sport and the beginning of a new year.
    22 January 2016, 1:01 pm
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