South London Hardcore is
free to stream and download on our website and from iTunes.
If you’ve never listened to
South London Hardcore before, this week’s episode is probably not the best
place to start, as it contains an elaborate April Fool’s gag.
Most episodes blend history,
culture and anecdotes, but below you’ll them split up for the ease of
categorisation. Very few of the episodes are time sensitive, so please dig in
to the archive.
Areas
Area-specific episodes include the South Bank (#53), Waterloo (#43), Eltham (#36), Deptford (#34), Wimbledon (#28), Nunhead (#25), Woolwich (#18), Elephant and Castle (#2), Greenwich (#5), the Borough (#8), Surrey Docks (#11), Vauxhall (#15), New Cross (#23), Stockwell (#56), Balham (#38), Barnes (#48) and Brixton, on which were joined by Jack’s wife Lakisha who rued the area’s fading Carribean heritage and gentrification (#13).
On a few occasions we’ve got really local - East Street market (#31), Burgess Park (#39), Telegraph Hill (#26).
Stretching the bounds of the semi-city, we’ve talked about London’s bridges (#65) and the towns and cities twinned with places in South London (#37).
Film and Television
Our very first episode was
on South London sitcoms (#1) and we’ve visited themes as diverse as sport films
shot south of the river (#29), Thamesmead on screen (#45), Southwark estates on
screen (#7) and inducted Charlie Chaplin into our hall of fame (#52).
We also talked about a trilogy
of Lambeth films (#49) and Treacle Jr, an independent film shot in Southwark,
Lambeth and Wandsworth (#57).
Music
We’ve done two South London
playlists – the first (#3) featuring David Bowie, the Clash and Basement Jaxx
and the second (#58) featuring the Kinks, Bros and Pulp, and episode on music
videos (#27). The first of three David Bowie episodes (#63) covers his life and
music from Brixton to Berlin.
Friends
Our friend Hassan from
Tooting (#64) talked about going to the same school as the man who invented the
world wide web and how South London has changed for Asian people post-7/7, Lewie
Peckham (real name) who came up with the SLHC name and logo has been on three
times talking about the area that bears his name (#54), what constitutes South
London (#4) and for local news (#22). We’ve also been joined by Thabo Mhlatshwa
for Black History Month (#42), Glenn Holmes who composed our theme tune (#46), former
London mayoral candidate Wolfgang Moneypenny (#9) and actress Dolly Oladini who
took us to the Menier Chocolate Factory (#44).
Comics
Watchmen creator Alan Moore
joined us to discuss his book/record Unearthing (#62) and we’ve also been
joined by small press creators Richy K Chandler (#60) and Owen Pomery (#16), and
did a general comics episode (#33).
Owen also joined us to talk
about South London’s skyscrapers (#35) and Stockwell (#56).
Sport
Last summer we did an
episode on South London in the Olympics and the Olympics in South London (#32).
We had an all access pass at on-league Dulwich Hamlet (#55), interviewing fans,
their star player and the club’s unofficial historian, and have talked about
football before with our all-time South London XI (#5) and the FA Cup (#19).
History and Art
Most episodes tap into South
London’s rich history. We’ve looked specifically at the birth of music hall and
variety (#59), the role of technological pioneers Michael Faraday and Charles
Babbage (#21) and been the Tate Modern (#41).
Local news
We’ve delved into the weird
and wonderful world of local news several times (#10, #22, #30, #40, #50), as
well as attending the South East London Zine Fest (#47), covering the Diamond
Jubilee celebrations (#24), May Day celebrations (#20) and talked about our own
travails battling racists on the internet (#14)
Finally…
It’s not all positivity. Our
biggest ever episode is our list of the 10 worst South Londoners (#61), the
‘power churches’ episode (#12) dealt with a worrying trend, and we were less
than complimentary about some of Enid Blyton’s work (#17).
Enjoy!
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