This podnosh blog is not just about communities, neighbourhoods or podcasting. I’m also interested in links between media and the internet, and a friend of mine has just come up with downright cheeky one:

more->For months now he has been putting together a documentary on Manchester United, the Glazer family, fans and the future of football.

The [...]

I’ve just spent a wonderful morning with two women who are both directors of Witton Lodge Community Association. Linda Hines has been involved for 15 years while Michelle Ashmore got stuck in just two or three years ago.
The Association has been working really closely with Birmingham City Council and other partners to drive [...]

 

 No pay makes you powerful [13:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Birmingham City Council has pulled off a bit of a coup.

They have enticed Professor Michael Parkinson to lead a new team pulling together a 10 year vision for the future of the city centre. His credentials are impeccable, from the Government’s recent State of the English Cities report to leading the Economic and Social [...]

In this episode Ruairi goes out with his microphone and interviews a few of the performers from the concert.
Firstly, James Hereper the clown, followed by Humza Chaudhry who was in the barbershop quartet and finally Mo who was taking part in the freestyle basketball demonstration.

As always, the podcast was recorded and produced by the boys [...]

 

 Summer Concert 06 [2:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A while ago the new headmaster of a large state run secondary school told me about his plan to stop excluding children – no more problem solving by binning the apparent source of the problem. He thought that of all the children who most needed the values and discipline a good school [...]

David Cameron was in Birmingham again today – to give a Chamberlain Lecture on how he sees the relationship between government and communities.

In fact the leader of the opposition was in my own neighbourhood Balsall Heath, an area he admires for the extent to which citizens and volunteers have taken control of their own streets. [...]

I’ve just come to the end of a series of days working with children at Reaside School in Frankley in Birmingham. Four of us were briefed through Stan’s Cafe (I love Stan’s proper use of the apostrophe) and creative partnerships to use podcasting to tap into the children’s imaginations and their skills at [...]

 

 Wendy Scattergood Street Party Mix [5:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Programme 20 hears from Gill Taylor, who runs the government’s new Academy for Sustainable Communities. She tells us why she wants residents to unleash their expertise on re-educating professionals.more->Sounds like one more burden on active citizens? Perhaps not – the academy also wants to support these new teachers and relieve some of the stresses of [...]

 

 Time to Teach the Pros [11:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download