Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the unusual environment of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park near Mile End tube station.

His guests this week are:

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from The Star cafe in Soho.

His guests this week are:

• Peter Berthoud, Westminster tour guide and blogger at Discovering London
• Jo Moncrieff, Westminster tour guide
• Julia Forte, proprietor of The Star, and owner of the London Peculiar website

The guests discuss recent London news and features including Crossrail developments, the noses of Soho, London’s worst Tube stations, police spending on the Speaking Clock, the ‘Boris Island’ Thames airport proposals, new libraries for London, trouble with the English Defence League, as well as far more London trivia than is probably good for you.

What’s On In London
NQW rounds up the best new exhibitions and shows opening over the coming week.

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Making a biopic about Margaret Thatcher is not an easy thing to do. She’s not a sparkling conversationalist, she’s not overly witty, and she’s not electric in personality. However she is one of the most significant women of the last century and remains England’s first and only female Prime Minister. She is a woman who, while in office,  caused as much controversy as she gained accolades.

Thatcher is the subject of a new biopic, ‘The Iron Lady.’ In the film Meryl Streep plays Thatcher in her older years with Alexandra Roach portraying her in her formative years. Jim Broadbent co-stars as Denis Thatcher. Richard E. Grant and Anthony Head also appear in the film.

Encapsulating the entire life of someone as significant as Ms. Thatcher is no easy task. She is a daunting figure who even today casts a shadow over the office of Prime Minister. Nonetheless this is what ‘The Iron Lady’ sets out to do. Using flashbacks the movie establishes early on that Ms.Thatcher was a potent political leader who came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to stand side by side with other leaders in a male dominated world.

History shows us that Margaret Thatcher was a woman who, when she set out to do something, got it done. Her Achilles heel however that was she often didn’t play well with others. As she rose to power in the Conservative Party she stepped on a lot of egos and spewed a lot of venom at some of the most respected people in Britain. Streep brings this out in her performance with rich detail, upending tranquil scenes with sudden bursts of rage and anger. She also does a magnificent job of bringing the inner turmoil that Maggie suffered all her political life; being a woman in a man’s game.

In fact it is this that haunts Thatcher and makes he lust for power so intense. As Thatcher, Streep perfectly mimics her voice, mannerisms and vocal pitch. It is a striking proposition to play her and Streep undertakes this fearlessly.

Alexandra Roach has it somewhat easier. Her younger Thatcher, although fighting early on for a political seat, is far more endearing and naive. The film’s few tender moments come when she and a younger Denis (Harry Lloyd) meet, court and fall in love.  Roach sets the groundwork for what is to come and allows Streep to roam free in the role later on. Thatcher’s early years in politics were not easy and Roach’s performance reflects her ambition, drive and determination to be seen as more than a grocer’s daughter. She too has taken a dauntless role and made it her own.

Broadbent is superb. He gives the film a breath of air when things get intense. He also holds his own with Streep onscreen as she hustles and bustles boisterously from crisis to crisis. Broadbent, although appearing mostly as an illusion of Thatcher’s dementia throughout most of the film, gives Denis a life, albeit one that is subservient to his wife’s insatiable desire for adoration and power.

Olivia Colman plays Carol Thatcher, Maggie’s daughter who watches helplessly as her mother moves from the worlds of the past and present without any differentiation. It’s not easy being the daughter of one of the most controversial figures in the world and Colman brings this out in the role. She brings a sense of angst as a daughter caring for a mother who is in mourning and suffering from dementia.

The film is set over three days in Thatcher’s life following the death of her husband. Over this period Lady Thatcher, suffering from dementia, recalls her life. It is not obvious at first, but her dementia is profound. She struggles to control herself and oftentimes finds herself speaking to her dead husband. Flashbacks and archival footage tell the story of her ascension and decline from power as well as her life out of office. These flashbacks chronicle her rise from obscurity to her rise through the House of Commons and eventual leadership of The Conservative Party. This is where Streep really takes the reigns of the role and runs with it. As Thatcher becomes PM and leads Britain into the Falklands War she intensifies her performance. She perfectly nails Thatcher’s cold ambivalence to labor strikes, youth protests and the antiwar movement.

Streep skillfully recreates the cold and calculating Thatcher that got things done her way and balances that with a woman, who late in life, struggles with getting a grip on reality and being an ordinary citizen. This careful balancing act enables her to bring a sense of tragic melancholy to the elderly Thatcher who clearly remains bitter, angry and lost after leaving office.

During Thatcher’s rule she faced several crisis situations. The UK’s youth culture and union workers protested and criticized her ever move. The riots they caused were profoundly demonstrative in illustrating how divided she often made her nation’s citizens over her policies. As Prime Minister she was not always popular. She was one of the most controversial leaders of the 1980s who oversaw a period of economic malaise, went toe to toe with the IRA, and went to war over the Falklands. She also  staunchly supported American interests in the Cold War by allying Britain closely with Ronald Reagen’s United States, another move that enraged her colleagues and most vocal opponents.

When Meryl Streep takes a part she inhabits every fiber of that character. Here she completely transforms herself into Ms. Thatcher. The tone, inflections and mannerisms are pitch perfect and thus the audience completely forgets they are watching an actress.  Thatcher is not an easy person to like and Streep gets it right by not trying to make more out of her then she is. She doesn’t shy away from the fact that Thatcher is often very cold and domineering . Yet her version of the PM is tinged with a sense of loss over the death of her husband and frustration over how she left office.

Although The Iron Lady is one of Streep’s triumphs as an actress, the film itself  misses its mark. The pacing is off and the audience is left to wonder somewhat as they attempt to discern what Maggie perceives as real or imaginary. The  ensemble is terrific but suffers from a script that drags a bit in places as it struggles to make Thatcher interesting and compelling. The fact is that  it is hard to make one of the world’s most unlikable political figures interesting to a wide audience.

Director Phyllida Lloyd
 adeptly chronicles her life and political rise by, at times, presenting the film like a stage production with closed in sets, tight dialogue and powerful acting. By staging the film in this way she manages to make this daughter of a shop owner watchable. It also creates a natural spatial tension that enhances the scenes where Thatcher is at combat with her rivals. Lloyd also takes advantage of some great locales for filming. Being able to film inside some of the most powerful places in the British government lends a lot to the production. It is a cinematic treat. The costumes and sets are also great.

She also knows enough to let Streep go out on her own and inhibit the character without interference. With Roach she lets a young actress find her way with the part, resulting in a breakthrough performance.

‘The Iron Lady’ is a film held together by Meryl Streep. The supporting cast is also quite good, however there is something flat about the film that makes it difficult to connect with. It could be that even on screen Thatcher is not easy to warm up to. Another problem is that this movie is over ambitious in trying to deliver a complete picture of someone as complex as Margaret Thatcher. The film is unapologetic of her flaws and characteristics and doesn’t try to rewrite history. Nonetheless it somehow misses  capturing her many complexities which is probably impossible to do in a feature film.

This evasive, all pervading problem of Thatcher’s unlikability is what makes ‘The Iron Lady’ a good film but not a great one. It is a very good film that has so much more potential to be a great one. Maybe the film suffered from Thatcher’s problem of not knowing when to hold back and ease up. Still, despite this, it is worth seeing.

‘The Iron Lady’ is a must see for fans of British politics, popular culture and history. Sadly many people today know little of the discord she brought to her nation’s youth culture or just how close she came to plunging England deeper into the murky depths of The Cold War. She was controversial, powerful. resourceful and resolute. She moved Britain from austerity into a new era of nationalism while restoring it as a world power. ‘The Iron Lady’ affords Anglophiles the opportunity to familiarize themselves with one of Britain’s most polarizing personalities while watching an amazing actress, Meryl Streep, make the part completely her own.

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MPs could be forced to move out of the Houses of Parliament after subsidence has caused Big Ben’s clock tower to lean by an alarming 18 inches. Report by Sophie Foster.

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

In another Londonist Out Loud special, host and producer N Quentin Woolf speaks to the team at Cory Environmental. Cory’s barges tirelessly transport refuse along the Thames for incineration. NQW takes a trip along the river with the crew. Along the way, he learns about the barges’ remarkable history and important modern role.

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We’re not going to get into the politics of this but the current British government has given the greenlight to a new High Speed rail network in Britain.

It’s going to cost a lot of money, make a lot of people angry and take 14 years before there are any passengers, but they intend to go along with it anyway.

I think things like this are really cool so we’ll be watching with great interest. For those that are interested – here’s a summary of the whole project from the UK’s Channel 4 News.

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During her inaugural address Jamaica’s new Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says the time has come for her country to cut ties with the British monarchy.

While Jamaica is an independent country – they kept Queen Elizabeth as they’re head of state. They now plan to end this tradition.

See the video below:

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week’s show comes from the Coach and Horses pub in Covent Garden, where NQW is joined by cab drivers Bill Ward, Dickie Hudd, Reg Hay and Dick Goodwin of the London Taxi Benevolent Association for War Disabled.

The guests discuss their charity, which takes ex-servicemen and women on taxi excursions. They then talk over recent London news and features, including the abusive woman on a South London tram, the unusual cases London Fire Brigade has tackled in the past year, and the recent strikes and protests.

What’s On In London
NQW rounds up the best new exhibitions and shows opening over the coming week.

London Unfurled
Your host speaks to Matteo Pericoli about London Unfurled, an incredible drawing that includes every building on the Thames between Hammersmith and Greenwich. A (very) small section is shown above.

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

This week’s show comes from The Mad Bishop and Bear in Paddington. Image by M@.

News and Views

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week, NQW is joined by regular Londonist contributors:

• Beth Parnell-Hopkinson, contributing editor to Londonist
• Ruairidh Anderson, East End troubadour, compiler of the Folk Olympics and composer of Londonist Out Loud’s closing theme music

The guests settle down at the Mad Bishop and Bear in Paddington to discuss recent London stories and articles. Topics include transport projects that were never pursued, looming transport strikes, a blue plaque for a stripper, the latest cycling developments, missiles to protect the Olympic Park and other Olympics news, the proposed demolition of a south London museum, and the feeding of 5,000 in Trafalgar Square.

London Maps: The Magical, the Methodical and the Multifaceted

In association with TAG Fine Arts, Londonist recently hosted an evening devoted to the many many forms and uses of London maps. In this short excerpt, cab driver John Kennedy offers a unique insight into a cabbie’s mind. The full audio recording of this event will be available on Londonist soon, and the accompanying exhibition The Art of Mapping runs at Air Gallery on Dover Street until 26 November as part of the London Mapping Festival.

What’s On In London

NQW rounds up the best new exhibitions and shows opening over the coming week.

Remember, you can subscribe to Londonist Out Loud via iTunes or RSS.

This week’s show is sponsored by Open Pen Magazine.
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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

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The first official trailer for The Iron Lady has been released. Ironically it was first released on The Daily Mail’s website.

Whether or not you care for Thatcher as a person it looks like it will be an interesting historial exploration of 1980′s Britain and her impact, good or bad.

The Iron Lady opens in the USA and the UK in January.

Check out the trailer below:

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

News and Views

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. This week, NQW takes a stroll round the outside of the Olympic park with his special guest:

• Jim Zambrano, founder of Scout, a website and soon-to-be free newspaper about London.

The pair discuss the challenges of launching a new print magazine for the capital, and cover recent news and features about London. Topics include the topped-out Orbit tower on the Olympic park, the secret SAS base, and Olympic security. And then something surprising happens…

After the pair regain their composure, the conversation continues with discussion about police surveillance, the Occupy London camps, squatting, a hotel employing homeless people, London philanthropists, the mayor’s mentoring scheme, the Thames Estuary Airport, the 25th birthday of M25

What’s On In London
NQW rounds up the best new exhibitions and shows opening over the coming week.

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

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British Prime Minister David Cameron announces that the 16 Commonwealth heads of government have agreed to end gender discrimination in succession to the UK throne. Report by Adam Sich.

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London.

News and Views

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.  In a special outside broadcast from the St Paul’s Occupation camp, he’s joined by:

• Neil Denny, presenter of the Little Atoms podcast, a London-based show about science, rational thinking and ideas of the Enlightenment.
• Darryl Chamberlain, author of 853 blog and commentator on Greenwich, Charlton and Woolwich.

The guests wander round the Occupy London encampment near St Paul’s, looking at the organisation and discussing the motives behind it. They also discuss recent London news and features, including some nasty cycling incidents, a clamp-down on uninsured drivers, and money troubles at City Hall. The trio also discuss Londonist’s recent features about pubs with cats, how to pronounce difficult London place names, and whether there should be an apostrophe in King’s Cross.

What’s On In London
NQW rounds up the best new exhibitions and shows opening over the coming week.

Occupy London
Your host finishes the show by interviewing a few of the protestors at the Occupy London camp.

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The Duke of Cambridge records a video message about Fields in Trust and the Queen Elizabeth Fields Challenge which he launched to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Visit http://www.qe2fields.com

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes/www.londonist.com)

Image of Ben Franklin House by Ell Brown under creative commons.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.  In the studio with him this week:

• Melanie Abrahams, director of Tilt, an organisation promoting spoken-word events, and organiser of London Liming, a spoken word party at Rix Mix.

After discussing Melanie’s work, the pair talk about recent London news. Topics include travelling during the Olympics, the Olympic wifi network, anti-corporate protests, the leaning of Big Ben, doggy bags in restaurants and Floella Benjamin’s support for the Notting Hill Carnival.

Events Around Town
NQW rounds up some of the best upcoming openings and events around London this week.

History
NQW and Mike Paterson of London Historians visit the Benjamin Franklin House museum in Craven Street to investigate the history of this fascinating building.

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Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes /www.londonist.com)

Smoke, of a different variety, over London.

News and Views

Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.  In the studio with him this week:

• Matt Haynes, editor and driving force between the much-loved London-themed magazine Smoke: A London Peculiar.

The pair discuss the challenges of publishing an independent periodical, before moving on to recent London news and views, including the opening of the world’s first Google store, pedestrianising Oxford Street, developments on and around the Olympic Park, Tube driver salaries and Boris Johnson’s political future.

Music
Eoin Quiery and Burning Wheel premiere their new song, Get There.

Events Around Town
NQW rounds up some of the best upcoming openings and events around London this week.

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Interested in sponsoring this podcast? Contact us on hello@londonist.com for more details. This week’s show is supported by Open Pen magazine.

Image by dicdotcom in the Londonist Flickr pool.

Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast For London, 10 October 2011 is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Londonist Out Loud a podcast for London news, views, and oddities from London, UK. Presented by N Quentin Woolf. (free on iTunes /www.londonist.com)

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.  In the studio with him this week:

• Tom Bolton, author of London’s Lost Rivers, a Walker’s Guide
• Eoin Quiery of London band Burning Wheel

The guests discuss recent London news including the rebranding of London neighbourhoods (NoGo, Midtownet al.), the rewriting of laws to prevent ambush marketing at the Olympics, private security, magic wands in Parliament and bull’s semen on a Tube train, the Thames cable car, lost rivers, boundary changes, the Brixton Pound and quirky London maps.

Events Around Town

NQW rounds up some of the best upcoming openings and events around London this week.

Tube Art by Kim - photo taken by Eoin Quiery

Music
Eoin plays a ballad about one of his favourite characters on the London Underground. He then goes on to set Victorian poem London Misnomers to music.

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The British Government is seeking to boost Britain’s reputation abroad by launching a new multi-million pound advertising campaign to highlight what makes Britain great.

From a release from the UK Government:

A new drive to promote Britain abroad, as a place to visit and do business, was launched today
by the Prime Minister, David Cameron.

With the Royal Wedding this year, and London 2012 and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next
year, the eyes of the world are on the UK. The Government is determined to seize this
unprecedented opportunity to ensure that the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are not only
a spectacular celebration of sport, but also deliver a lasting economic legacy for the whole
country, boosting investment, jobs and growth.

A new GREAT campaign, announced by the Prime Minister in New York, will
focus on everything the UK has to offer as one of the very best places to visit, study, work,
invest and do business. It will allow Britain to speak with one voice about the opportunities to
invest in the UK and help to attract millions of extra visitors

Here’s a quick video about the campaign:

They also published a series of ads focusing on aspects of Britain – check them out below:

So – what do you think? Will this campaign work? Personally, I think they should focus on making Britain a more affordable place to travel if they want visitors to come. But that’s my two pence.

British Government Launches Britain is GREAT Campaign to Generate Interest in UK is a post from: Anglotopia.net

Londonist Out Loud is a podcast of London news, opinion and curiosities, presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.

Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS.

News and Views
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.  In the studio with him this week:

• Paolo Viscardi, natural history curator at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill
• Fiona Yaron-Field, photographer and creator of Uncertain States, in independent photographic newspaper

After introducing their projects, the guests talk about old video footage of London, Olympic news, museum thefts, the joy of bees, outdoor swimming, and the EDL demonstrations.

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This week’s show is supported by Open Pen magazine.

Image me-tiger by Paolo Viscardi.

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Londonist Out Loud is a podcast of London news, opinion and curiosities, presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.

In the studio with him this week are two guests with many strings to their bows…

• Gabriella Apicella, writer, storyteller and founder of the Underwire Festival
• Chris Roberts, tour guide, author, radio host, and a whole bunch more.

The guests tackle recent London news, including the Notting Hill Carnival, the aftermath of the riots, the top London annoyances, and London as a fashion capital.

3-Minute History
In the second of a two-part feature, Lucy Inglis of Georgian London takes a timely look at the Gordon Riots of 1780.

Guildhall Art Gallery
NQW visits the Guildhall Art Gallery and the Roman amphitheatre hidden underneath. Curator Sonia Solicari picks out some highlights, including the largest canvas on show in the UK.

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Londonist Out Loud is a podcast of London news, opinion and curiosities, presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf.

In the studio with him this week…

Jonathan Turton, blogger at West Hampstead Life and tweeting at @WHampstead.
Rog T, blogger at Barnet Eye and tweeting at @BarnetEye.

The guests tackle recent London news, dominated by riots and looting. Other stories include Boris’ war on the plastic bag, redeveloping Broadgate, and the naming of five new London areas in the Olympic Park. Jonathan and Rog also highlight some of the issues currently affecting the local areas they represent, as well as discussing their very different styles of covering local news and politics.

Londonist Out Loud Extra has further coverage of the riots, including an interview with a Hackney locksmith.

In the first of a two-part feature, Lucy Inglis of Georgian London takes a timely look at the Gordon Riots of 1780.

NQW rounds up the latest shows, exhibitions and other happenings around town.

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