Programme 13 from the Grassroots Channel comes not from Birmingham but from Dortmund in Germany. We’ve been demonstrating podcasting to a group of young people from cities across Europe. Listen to Simone and Ethel as they try podcasting for the first time and talk to other young people about homelessness, junkies and fear in the …
The Worst Slum in Europe
Programme 12 eavesdrops on a conversation between two people whose relationship began with intense frustration and conflict. Natalie Brade and Councillor Sir Albert Bore: one a practical active citizen, the other a senior politician, met when Natalie began protesting about housing conditions on what was then the Lee Bank estate in Ladywood. Now they work …
Light the blue touch paper – Grassroots Channel podcast 11
Programme 11. Our listeners talk back and in this programme we hear from one living in Birmingham and another in the Philippines.
Generosity is a key ingredient – Grassroots Channel Podcast
Programme 10. Generosity – how can that revive a neighbourhood? The Church of England in Birmingham thinks it may make a huge difference. In fact it seems Lent is a good time for us all learn something about generosity – including the church and its congregation. The weeks running up to Easter in the Christian …