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Pages of Hackney

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  • Pages of Hackney is an independent bookshop on Lower Clapton Road in London, UK.  Subscribe to our podcast to hear recordings of selected events with authors at the shop and other local venues.  Take a look at our forthcoming events or browse our shelves.
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Episodes
  • Easy Wins: Anna Jones in Conversation with Alice Levine (14 March 2024)
    Jun 6 2024

    The brilliant Anna Jones discusses her latest cookbook EASY WINS with Alice Levine at Hackney's Old School Rooms.

    Recorded live on Thursday 14 March 2024.

    With thanks to Square Root Soda for keeping us refreshed on the night.


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Child Migrant Voices from Hackney (29 February 2024)
    Apr 29 2024

    A special panel event recorded at Hackney's Old School Rooms on 29 February 2024 to celebrate the publication of Eithne Nightingale's CHILD MIGRANT VOICES IN MODERN BRITAIN: ORAL HISTORIES 1930-PRESENT DAY.


    Participants:


    Linh Vu escaped Vietnam by boat with her father and arrived in UK in 1979, aged seven, leaving her mother and siblings in Saigon. The family reunited in Hackney five years later. Linh studied architecture, ran a Vietnamese restaurant and is helping on an architectural project on the south coast with her husband.


    Maurice Nwokeji survived bombs and hunger in the war in Biafra before joining his parents in Hackney, aged nine, in 1970. He is now a reggae musician and will perform music inspired by his childhood experiences of war.=


    Fatim Nikoulare arrived on her own in Hackney from Guinea in 2006 at the age of 16 speaking no English. After many challenges accessing housing, education and a right to stay she is now a British citizen and works as a theatre nurse on the south coast. .


    Rabbi Gluck OBE is the son of Necha Gluck (nee DUX) who came to the UK, aged 10, on the Kindertransport in 1938. He is a prominent and leading British and international rabbi and human rights advocate. He received his OBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the second at an investiture in 2013, for promoting interfaith understanding.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • By My Hands: Florian Gadsby in Conversation with Debika Ray (14 September 2023)
    Nov 15 2023

    Florian Gadsby discusses his first book, BY MY HANDS: A POTTER'S APPRENTICESHIP, with Debika Ray at Hackney's Old School Rooms.

    Recorded 14 September, 2023.

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    57 mins

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