Babadub – The Restoration
Tommy Calderbank reviews the album The Restoration by Babadub, an incredible duo from the heart of the Scouse underground music scene.
News & Comment
Helen Steel – McLibel/Undercover Policing
Recording of a talk in the Small Cinema by Helen Steel after a viewing of the film McLibel – 2 people’s fight against the multi national corporation McDonalds and winning.
Interview with Sinead Kirwan: Still the Enemy Within
A documentary film celebrating thirty years since the miners strike of 1984/5 with personal narratives interwoven with footage iconic photos of that seminal strategic showdown with the Thatcher government.
Interview with SUS director Ed Barrett
John Owen interviews Ed Barrett, the director of the play SUS, originally penned by the long good Friday screenplay writer Barrie Keefe about the arrest and interrogation of an innocent black man before the 1979 election of Thatcher, depicting the changing times and new moral codes coming into play.
My Punk Moment
Robert Harrison and Tracey Dunn talk about their time as young punks in London and Liverpool. Tracey recalls a gig by the Sex Pistols in 77 and the outrageous clothes worn, while Rob talks of the alternative punk situation in Liverpool, the DIY “make do and mend” scene that was Liverpool before the real punk revolution hit with a vengeance!!
ORBITAL INTERVIEW with Ben Cronkshanklingly
Way back in the spring of 2012, when Nerve Radio was still a twinkle in the magazines pants, Ben Cronkshanklingly and Tristan Brady-Jacobs spent 25 minutes with Paul Hartnoll from super-electronic-dance-anthem legends ORBITAL.
Mauthausen, Darren Guy
In 2001 i visited a friend in Linz, In Austria. Whilst there she took me to Mauthasen concentration camp.
Years later I recorded my experience.
Stan Ambrose – Jonny Walker
This is an episode of Nerve Radio created by Stan Ambrose featuring local singer-songwriter and campaigner Jonny Walker, talking about buskers rights and playing live songs.
Dreams, Memories and Loss
If you had 15 minutes left to live, what would run through your mind? Would your mind strip bare all that was false about life and friends would it find the flesh and bones of truth. Dreams, Memories and Loss is a journey through one mans life in 15 minutes, told through poetry and music.
Mandela Becomes a Marketing Opportunity
Ritchie Hunter gives his take on the hype surrounding the funeral of the freedom fighter Nelson Mandela.
World Kindertransport Day
The 75th anniversary of the first Kindertransport Tour came to Liverpool in November, 2013. In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of 9-10 November 1938, and the start of the Second World War nearly 10,000 children were sent, without their parents, out of Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia to safety in Great Britain.
Urban Walking Intro Podcast
Wandering around the backstreets of Bold Street and the Ropewalks, Andrea interviews John about the Urban Walk phenomenon.
