South London Hardcore

Artists Kevin O'Neill joins us to talk about his life and career, including 2000AD, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Ro-Busters, and Nemesis The Warlock

Writer, comedian and podcaster Daniel Ruiz Tizon (The Letter, Daniel Ruiz Tizon is Available, Please Don't Hug Me) speaks to his about his life in South West London and the influence it has had on his work.

Graham Neale, a Liberal Democrat councillor who serves the South Bermondsey ward in Southwark. We talk to Graham about what a councillor does, typical casework, representing the community and dealing with the local press, as well specific issues like safety in cycling and extending the TFL cycle hire scheme further into the Borough of Southwark.

SLHC live at the Old King's Head, Borough. Where's the centre of South London? Who's our ultimate South Londoner? What's the best name of a shop on the Walworth Road?

In anticipation of our impending 100th Episode we've put together a selection of our finest moments from some early episodes. Where is Charles Babbage's brain? Can you sit down and eat in Brixton? And where IS Doctor Who's house? All the answers are here...

We take a look back at 2013 in South London, including Dulwich Hamlet's promotion, saving Lewisham Hospital, departures and arrivals and personal memories. Also includes Paul from United Rant podcast talking about Manchester United's trio of South Londoners.

Amy Winehouse, Katy B, Leona Lewis, Adele, Rizzle Kicks, Another Level, The Noisettes, Floetry, The Kooks, Jessie J, Imogen Heap, Bashy and Kate Nash

Sean O'Hagan, formerly of Microdisney and Stereolab, talks about his life in South London, Stereolab's South London roots, the transpontine tunes he recorded with The High Llamas and 'Here Come The Rattling Trees', his latest narrative music project which is set in Peckham.

We look at South London’s greatest wrestlers, including Giant Haystacks and Mick McManus, one of which will be inducted into the South London Hardcore Hall of Fame. We also saw a wrestling show at the Coronet, Elephant and Castle and got an exclusive interview with Colt Cabana about wrestling on the independent circuit scene, CM Punk, British wrestling and his own podcast, The Art of Wrestling. Co...

Oliver Reed, one of the great British actors, spent a lot of time drinking Wimbledon pubs. We follow his famous pub crawl talking about a film at each stop. The Devils, Oliver, Gradiator, Hannibal Brooks, Women in Love and The Brood.

Comic creator and retired rapper Lord Hurk joins us to talk about his work for the very first time. We talk about his considerable backlist,upcoming projects and the transpontine elements in his work. We also play four of his tracks and cap things off with a conversation about South London hip-hop of the late 80s and early 90s ahead of our forthcoming show on the music of the era.

Jack's wife Lakisha is back on the show for the first time in a year. We get her take on local news stories and she fields listeners' questions.

This week we joined Richard Reynolds for a spot of Guerrilla Gardening. We started off at St. George's Circus to clean up a site there, spoke to Richard about the various projects he has underway and finished off doing a spot of Guerrilla Gardening of our own.

In 1931 Boris Karloff (born in Honor Oak) starred in Frankenstein, one of the most popular and influential horror films of all time. The Monster that is now so iconic is as much Karloff's as it is Mary Shelley's. Karloff reprised the role in Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein, the former starring Elsa Lanchester (from Lewisham) in the titular role.

This week we spoke to our friend Ben about his life in South London. From his seminal childhood memories on the Pepys Estate in Deptford up to the transpontine influences on his love of cycling and music, Ben shares his own South London story...

Let us take you on a tour of Tooting. We start at the Lido and end up at the Broadway, by way of the Common, an athletics ground, two hospitals, a school, a bingo hall and flagship chicken shop.

We've spent the weekend at Elefest, the Elephant and Castle festival, taking in history, art, films, music, food and more. Our roundup of the festival includes interviews with founder Rob Wray, guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds, muralist David Bratby and Incredible Edible Southwark.

For the first meeting of the South London Book Club we've read The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark and non-fiction Do You Remember Olive Morris? (available from Lambeth Libraries).

Pollarding, fruity foxes and South London's latest Asset of Community Value are among the topics that crop up in our latest Local News round-up.

This week we put up blue plaques for Elizabeth Burgwin, who introduced free school meals at the Orange Street School in 1894, and Ginger Baker, drummer with Cream, Blind Faith and many others, who grew up in New Eltham.

This week we took a trip to the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, enjoying the selection of taxidermy, musical instruments and alpacas. We also looked at the history of the place and discover it was built on tea, was home to an important theatrical figure and played host to some famous occultists.

It's raining cats, dogs and Brutalist architecture... This week we took a trip to Catford and talked about it's history, geography and famous locals, including Ben Elton, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and a load of musicians.

Sam Jeffers (Fridge) and Stephen Graham join us for our Elliott School playlist, which includes Fleetwood Mac, Hot Chip, Burial, The XX, The Damned, The Maccabees, Four Tet, Jeff Beck, Matt Munro, The Bee Gees, DragonForce, Adem, Basquiat Strings and Cleaners From Venus.

We've picked 12 statues around South London of cultural and historical significance. Our list includes emperors and philanthropists, a cosmonaut and a tennis player, and a dog that caused riots.

David White, Ricky Miller and Michael Gosden make up small press outfit Avery Hill Publishing. We talk about their South-East London roots and their work with local comic creators (including SLHC regular Owen Pomery). Check out averyhillpublishing.com for their marvellous and reasonably priced work.