Farm-ageddon

Animal Equality are an organisation who campaign for the rights of animals and a lifestyle that does not involve the use of animal products.  Yet again a campaigning organisation has gone behind the scenes in an average country pig farm selling animals for food.  This farm in particular carried the trusted red tractor symbol whilst the abuse and sick animals inside shocked even the campaigners.  The owner of Harling Farm in Thetford made a statement on the BBC to say he was gutted at what had happened.  Mike talks to the organisation involved to find out just what went on.  Why were they there in the first place and just how big was the farm in question.  The owner claims it was isolated incidents he knew nothing about?  The interview below is the full and completely uneddited version that answers a lot of those questions as well as asking some more.  As a society can we afford to keep producing and selling meat cheaper and faster without the incredible pressure it is putting on our health and our environment.  As usual you can play, listen,download and link to the audio below.

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http://www.britishporkindustry.co.uk/

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All in the mind

This brilliant piece of audio has been in the archives a while.  It features an interview with local published poet Jane Marsh.  It features some marvelous work from her book “lyrics of the Soul” but much more than that.  Jane talks frankly about where a lot of her work comes from.  Her bitter experiences in dealing with the highs and lows of Bipolar along with a poor relationship with alcohol.  She is brutally honest in her her struggle with alcohol and mental health problems but has come through to find respect for what she does.

The interview features some great examples of her work and the book is available via united press.

As usual you can click to play below to play straight from this site or download to listen again.

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Lest we forget

Very late but better than never purely because it serves as an introduction to Mayhews work.  Recorded on 11/11/2011 this piece was aired to celebrate and interesting piece of work taking place in Manchester.  As a performance artist Michael has challenged audiences across the world and is based right here in our city.  He has met some world class performers and brought them to the UK for this unique one off show.  11 performers over 11 hours on the 11 th November.  There’s still lots going on with him and its definitely worth checking out his website and the links are below.  In this interview he tries to explain the concepts of the work he does and tease us into exploring it more.  He talks about what he thinks of Manchesters artistic culture.  As usual just click below to hear the interview right here on the site or if you are not on www.gsfcuk.com just click the play or download button.  Links to us and Michaels website are below.

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http://www.michaelmayhew.com

 

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