Other Lives Are Available

98. Nathan - signwriter & lettering artist

This chat with @muchsigns is about pulling a line, a career that starts with a chance meeting in a pub, excessive pollen, glass tarot cards, and a supportive trade. "Sometimes you do have to kind of have nerves of steel for some jobs, and it's quite performative... even when you're not being watched or filmed you have to get your mind into the right space". #otherlivesareavailable #eastlondon #podcast #signwriter

97. Sean - race car enthusiast

This chat is about street racing, doing a job that you enjoy, not heeding your own Dad's advice, and growing up your kids. "It's problems that they know that they've caused... and they're going to call Dad to back them up... As much as I'm always going to be on their side... for my sons when they come to me 'Dad, listen this happened', I'll be like 'OK, I think this is what happened', you give them your version. And then they get that look in their face, 'Was you there??' Like 'I wasn't there son, but I've been there, you're just re-living what I've done already... I know the original version!' #otherlivesareavailable #podcast #eastlondon #parenting

96. Sukhdev - Clapton Community Football Club member

At the ground of Clapton CFC (www.claptoncfc.co.uk) we talk about how the fans created the club from scratch, what it stands for, the Spanish connection, and why it's about far more than football. "When you come to this club the team, the volunteers, are playing for an idea. Not for themselves, for an idea... and that is how community can come back together again, reconstitute itself into an anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-transphobe community that welcomes people, and how we can do things collectively." #otherlivesareavailable #podcast #eastlondon #claptoncfc

95. Nelly & Gabriel - 'United Voices of the World' trade unionists

This conversation in Bethnal Green is about the rights of cleaners, the power of a strike, representing migrant workers, and the support @unitedvoicesoftheworld provides to its members. "We're small and mighty but we're growing every day. We started in pubs, in cafes, having informal conversations, representing cleaners... and now we're almost 5000 members and growing". (https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/) #otherlivesareavailable #podcast #eastlondon #tradeunion

94. Alexander - mudlarking tango dancer

On a beach at low tide we chat about being away from the crowd, the history scattered on the shingle, collecting things, and dancing the tango. "There is an intimate connection, which is an unusual thing in our world... and then you leave, and that's the nice thing, you leave. So it's clear after 3 or 4 dances it's over". #otherlivesareavailable #podcast #eastlondon #tango