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This week we talk to Helen Zaltzman and Martin Austwick, whose home studio in Crystal Palace has, for the last 8 years, provided a base for Answer Me This! a podcast that has won Sony Awards and critical acclaim as well as the hearts of many devoted listeners. As well as their work on AMT!, the couple have produced some other audio gems, with the latest development being The Allusionist, Helen's n...

The Stanley Kubrick Archive is a collection of materials and resources spanning the entirety of the film director's career. Archivist Richard Daniels takes us on a tour of the archive, dipping in and out of Kubrick's boxes, looking at props, costumes, photographs, correspondence, books and many other things. We're also treated to the other collections in the archive, including the Tom Eckersley Co...

Live at Hold Fest, 11th January 2015. Local news special.

Bermondsey - Shad Thames, the Rolling Stones rehearsal room, birthplace of the bourbon and garibaldi, world's first tinned food factory and Millwall FC.

The South London Book Club meets again to discuss two books by women from South West London - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella.

Velvet Underground, Bloc Party, James Blake, Hawkwind, Placebo and Natasha Bedingfield are on the sixth volume of our playlist - acts that went to university in South London.

Blur, Pink Floyd, Klaxon, JME and Humphrey Lyttelton are on the sixth volume of our playlist - acts that went to university in South London.

Episode 145: Manfred Mann. We talk to Manfred Mann (Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Pretty Flamingo, Mighty Quinn) about his music career, covering Bob Dylan, trying to sell Paul McCartney a harmonium and South London.

This week we visit Putney, including the Putney Debates, Clement Attlee, William Pitt the Younger, Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, Howard Carter, Sandy Denny and Mr Benn.

Chiptune pop punk duo Fakebit Polytechnic join us for a chat about their songs, gigs and unique instruments, and a wander through Deptford Market.

A meditation on Norwood.

Our latest local news roundup features some stolen lightbulbs, skyline preservation, WWE wrestlers, public urination, a vision of our care home future and John Loughrey, Diana Super Fan.

Spike Milligan, one of the most important figures in the history of comedy, is inducted into the SLHC Hall of Fame. We talk about his childhood in Catford and Brockley and a career that included The Goon Show.

This week we paid a visit to the newly re-opened Imperial War Museum. We talked about the sites historical use as a site of the Bethlem Hospital, the history of the IWM as an institution and some of the curatorial decisions made in the museum's new incarnation.

For this year's Elefest we hosted a live show where we lead the audience on an aural adventure, spiralling around the Elephant and Castle roundabout from the outside in. We cover schools and churches, cinemas and shopping centres, housing estates and subways before ending up in front of a stainless steel substation. Join us on this journey, this time at your own convenience, where we can guide you...

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse. The South London Book Club meets again to discuss novels by two alumni of Dulwich College

The Cinema Museum, based in the old Lambeth Workhouse which Charlie Chaplin visited as a child, is packed to the rafters with equipment, signage, furniture, uniforms and ephemera from picture houses across the decades. We talked to Ronald Grant, the founder of the museum, about its history and their vast collection. Visit cinemamuseum.org.uk for full details about visiting the museum and a full li...

Artist Ed Gray talks about growing up in Putney, studying at Wimbledon, working in Peckham and living in Rotherhithe, as well as the many South London scenes he has painted.

John Grindrod is author of Concretopia: A Journey around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain is new in paperback. We talk to John about his book, the National Theatre, the Festival of Britain, the prefabs in Catford and New Addington where he grew up. We also address the Croydon question.

Peep Show, the long-running Channel 4 comedy, is shot and set in Croydon. Lucky Feller, which starred a pre-Only Fools and Horses David Jason, was set in Lewisham and shot on a soundstage at LWT.

Miranda Sawyer, the Observer's radio critic, talks to us about Brixton, the heyday of Smash Hits and where radio and podcasts sit in the cultural conversation.

Brockley, taking in all the sights, including the Rivoli Ballroom, Hilly Fields and the Brockley Jack.

At the turn of the century there was a Gaumont Film Company studio on Champion Hill in Camberwell. There's nothing left of it now, but the Friends of Dog Kennel Hill Wood hosted a screening of films produced by the studio on the spot the sound stage was located this past Saturday night. We talked to the organisers about putting this extravaganza of Edwardian cinema together and have a chat about t...

Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and Mad Frank, the autobiography of Frankie Fraser are read for this week's South London Book Club.

Featuring Kate Bush, Oasis, Dexys, Manfred Mann, Sid Vicious, Young MC, Asian Dub Foundation, Procol Harum, Des'ree and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.