East Salford Direct

Let's learn about Christmas and sharing from the visitors to the 'Street of 1,000 kids' exhibition.

Author Alice Searle talks about her new book, 'A Celebration of Kersal Moor'.

Here's a contribution to the 'Green and Growing' programme by Jane and Mike of Salford LIDS.

People are taking charge in Salford. Yes, whether it's growing flowers or cooking your own food, ordinary residents have found ways to do things for themselves.

It's a Library, but there's a long history of how the Working Class Movement Library got started, and eventually moved into its home on Salford Crescent. Even more strange, students from Salford University decided to write a play about it. Along the way, they found out stuff they didn't know.

Jane and Mike, from Salford LIDS, talk about all the different groups they have made contact with in Salford.

Albert Thompson sings his songs of Salford and talks about his life on the ocean wave.

Jane lived in Iran in 1978 and saw the revolution happening then.

A group of 'Ordsall's most eccentric'  discussing how they are trying to get some land in Ordsall for their community project to set up some local allotments.This show was a pilot for the VESPR radio project, showing how with only a couple of hundred quid you can get a mobile radio set up which will work to record out and about in the community and then put online.

A woman talking about her childhood, and the differing roles of men and women in the 50's. Recorded by Jane Wood.