Talking Walking

Brunel Mile talking walking

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:51:22 +0100

Richard Holden, a planner with Bristol City Council and George Ferguson CBE, an architect in the Bristol practice of Ferguson MannArchitects, join Andrew Stuck for a walk along the Brunel Mile in Bristol. Recorded on a blustery September day in 2008. 19'05" 8.9 MB

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Laura Kate Jennings talking walking

Sat, 29 May 2010 20:00:59 +0100

Laura Jennings, a singer and performer talks about how she has incorporated walking into her practice through the development of audio walks, in which she creates characters that prompt interaction from participants with the environment through which they walk. Her walking art practice began when studying at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. 20'11" 9.5MB

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Nick Cowen talking walking

Sat, 1 May 2010 08:59:27 +0100

Andrew Stuck accompanies Nick Cowen, a Senior Rights of Way officer on a walk to inspect a bridleway in south Wiltshire that has been recently cleared by a contractor. Nick is an accomplished photographer and musician and has recently turned his hand to writing about his work as seen through the eyes of an early nineteenth century pedestrian tourist. The interview was recorded in September 2009. 19' 40" 9.2MB

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John Davies talking walking

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:52:29 +0000

John Davies a Church of England vicar in Norris Green, in inner city Liverpool talks to Andrew Stuck of Rethinking Cities about a walk he undertook in 2007 along the route of the M62 motorway east to west. Recorded over the Internet in February 2009 and published in February 2010. 21'30" 10.1 MB

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William Bird talking walking

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:34:01 +0000

Dr William Bird, the creator of health walks, joins Andrew Stuck on a walk around St James' Park London on a bright January day. In this interview William tells us about how he prescribing health walks to his patients in a diabetic clinic has evolved into a national campaign to get us all outdoors. 22'5"10.4MB

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Veronica Reynolds talking walking

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:35:44 +0000

Andrew Stuck joins Veronica Reynolds, from Walk England, on her local walking route accompanied by Beans & Sparky her two Jack Russell terriers. The valley through which we walk is dissected by the main Great Western rail line, and the ambience is interrupted by trains, boats on the Thames and the occasional aircraft. Recorded on a clear day in August 2009. 23'23" 11MB

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Martin Kohler talking walking

Sat, 3 Oct 2009 09:14:16 +0100

Martin Kohler, a professor in urban planning at Hafen City University in Hamburg talks about the Harbour Safari – part guided walk, part exploration of a lost quarter of the city, part art intervention. This interview was recorded over the Internet in December 2008. 17'45" 8.4MB

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Tony Armstrong talking walking

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:28:09 +0100

Tony Armstrong, Chief Executive of Living Streets, Britain's leading campaigners on behalf of the pedestrian talks about how they are lobbying the government for better streets. This interview was recorded in December 2008. 19'24" 9.1 MB

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Des de Moor talking walking

Sat, 8 Aug 2009 10:20:54 +0100

An interview with Des de Moor: in this interview, Andrew Stuck from Rethinking Cities, accompanied Des de Moor on his walk to work at The Ramblers, where Des is Senior Everyday Walking officer. It was recorded early in the morning on a bright day in December 2008. 23'42" 11.1MB

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Robert Huxford talking walking

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:19:05 +0000

Robert Huxford is Director of Britain's Urban Design Group based in Clerkenwell, London. In this interview, recorded on a wet weekday morning while walking around Clerkenwell, with an almost constant background noise from motor traffic, Robert shares with us his enthusiasms for travel by foot.
14'43" 6.9 MB

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Bill Chandler talking walking

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:01:10 +0000

An Interview with Bill Chandler from Melbourne, founder and convenor of the Australian Urban Design Forum, in which he talks about the evolution of walking professionals in Australia and how design of the urban environment and the marketing of ideas to promote walkable communities are of intrinsic value. The interview was recorded In August 2008 in London. 18' 53" 8.9 MB

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Sorrel Muggridge talking walking

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 09:16:34 +0000

Sorrel Muggridge, a Nottingham based artist talks about her work, that links walking to the social and physical geography of people's everyday lives. We learn of the circumstances that brought about a fruitful collaboration with Laura Nanni, a Toronto based artist. The interview was recorded in Bunhill Row cemetery in the City of London in June 2008. 24' 54" 11.7 MB

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Jenny Budd talking walking

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:53:29 +0100

Jenny Budd is the Health Walks Coordinator in Lewisham, in south east London. She talks about how her work encourages hundreds of people to get walking for their better health, and how she thinks she has one of the best jobs in the world. The interview was recorded in Ladywell Fields, Lewisham just beside the local railway station, on an all too rare sunny day in June 2008. 15' 45" 7.4MB

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Ernie Kroeger talking walking

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:42:53 +0100

Ernie Kroeger devised and led the Walking and Art visual arts residency held at the Banff Centre of Arts in the Canadian Rockies that took place in September and October 2007. One year on, in this interview, we hear Ernie's reflections on the residency and how it has influenced his own art practice. 15' 58" 7.5MB

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Anne Devine talking walking

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:46:25 +0100

Anne Devine, a San Francisco based artist, part social activist, part expeditionary, talks about how she incorporates walking in her art practice. Join her as she talks about some wild adventures from crossing her local streets to the shores of Cape Canaveral and to high altitudes in the Sierras. 19'02" 8.9MB

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Leon Yates talking walking

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:42:07 +0100

Urban designer Leon Yates talks about the concept of transit cities in the context of his work in the greater Melbourne region. As he was the author of the City of Melbourne's walking strategy, he provides an insight into what makes a great Australian street. 19' 8" 9 MB

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Jacky Kennedy talking walking

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:36:11 +0100

Jacky is a walking activist from Toronto, who has a passion for walking and in helping others to make their communities more walkable. She works for Green Communities Canada, as their Director of Walking Programmes that includes their Active and Safe Routes to School initiative. She was one of the founders of International Walk to School and Canada Walks, and is a member of the conference strategy group of Walk21. The interview took place beside the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London in May 2008.27'32" 12.9 MB

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Viv Corringham talking walking

Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:23:28 +0100

An interview with Viv Corringham a British vocalist and sound artist, currently based in Minnesota, USA. Her work includes music performances, audio installations and soundwalks. She is interested in exploring people’s special relationship with familiar places and how that links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association. 22'52" 10.7MB

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Alexandra Rook talking walking

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:07:06 +0100

An Interview with Alexandra Rook, the Project Director of Walk London, overseeing 350 miles of strategic walking routes in and around the capital. 18' 30" 8.7 MB

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Jamie Wallace talking walking

Sat, 31 May 2008 09:55:16 +0100

An interview with Jamie Wallace the social entrepreneur behind on-line walking route finder Walkit.com 20' 30" 9.6 MB

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Hamish Fulton talking walking

Sat, 17 May 2008 09:43:22 +0100

An Interview with Hamish Fulton: Hamish studied St Martin’s College of Art in the mid 1960s, and has been categorised as a conceptual artist, a land artist, a sculptor and a photographer, but he sees himself as a Walking Artist. 13' 51" 6.5 MB

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Elinor Whidden talking walking

Sat, 3 May 2008 09:28:44 +0100

An interview with Elinor Whidden, sculptor, video and performance and walking artist who has tackled to key North American obsessions, the motor car and the western frontier. 20' 25" 9.6 MB

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WalkWalkWalk talking walking

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:12:02 +0100

Walk Walk Walk: an archaeology of the familiar and the forgotten – is a live art project of Gail Burton, Serena Korda and Clare Qualmann 17' 32" 8.3MB

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Peter Tombrowski talking walking

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:19:11 +0100

Interview with Peter Tombrwoski video documentary maker, author and walking resident of Calgary in Canada, talks about his philosophy and way of life, that he describes as Urban Camping. 18' 45" 8.8MB

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Bernadette Kowey talking walking

Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:58:32 +0000

Interview with Canadian walking activist, Bernadette Kowey, Regional Director of the British Columbian Way to Go project. The interview was recorded while taking two walks beside the sea in Vancouver. 21'12" 9.9MB

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Simon Pope talking walking

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:32:38 +0000

Interview with Simon Pope, walking artist and author of London Walking. The interview took place in November 2007.
22' 40" 10.6MB

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