Forest Radio is the podcast equivalent of a local newspaper. We go out and interview people who we believe have something interesting to say, or sometimes we invite them to our home studio in Elmsdale Road to be interviewed, or to sing, or to perform live if they are performing artists, or we go along to arts events or political meetings in the borough and we make live recordings of what we believe will interest our listeners.
With the self isolations and the widespread shutdowns of cultural and political events resulting from the Coronavirus outbreak none of these activities are open to us at the moment, so we need to find a new role for the station. Since we can't realistically go out and meet people or attend live events to create material or invite people back to the studio to be interviewed or to perform our only remaining options are to attempt to come up with homespun material created completely by members of the Forest Radio team or to ask you, our listeners to contribute recorded material that you think might interest your fellow Waltham Forest residents.
So if you are a singer or a musician, a writer, a storyteller or a poet, or just somebody with a point of view that you would like to express, do please send us recordings that we can incorporate into our programmes during this period of enforced introspection.
You can send us recordings in any audio format, of any length, on any topic, made on phones or anything you've got that can produce digital sound recordings. We can also put video clips or complete films on our website as you will know from our recent offereings. If the file is too big to travel as an attachment you can use DropBox or whatever means you like to get it to us. If you put a memory stick through the door of 55 Elmsdale Road, E17 6PN, in an envelope with a return address we promise to return it after we've downloaded the contents to our hard drive. We can't give an absolute guarantee that anything you send will go out on the station, but we'll need a strong reason to say no.
There are now a little over four hundred people on our mailing list, and that isn't all who listen, so please make use of our platform to present your creative work and your views and thoughts. Without your help we're liable to go very quiet in the weeks and months to come.
Our email address is: info@forestradio.co.uk or you can contact us through the "Contact" page on the website. We're waiting to hear from you.
We play ourselves out with In House Blues recorded by Bessie Smith in1931.
Settin' in the house with everything on my mind
Settin' in the house with everything on my mind
Lookin' at the clock and can't even tell the time
Walkin' to my window, an' lookin' out of my door
Walkin' to my window, an' lookin' out of my door
Wishin' that my man would come home once more
Can't eat, can't sleep, so weak I can't walk my floor
Can't eat, can't sleep, so weak I can't walk my floor
Feel like hollerin' murder, let the Police Squad get me once more
They woke me up before day with trouble on my mind
They woke me up before day with trouble on my mind
Wringin' my hands and screamin', walkin' the floor hollerin' and cryin'
Catch 'em, don't let them blues in here
Catch 'em, don't let them blues in here
They shakes me in my bed, can't set down in my chair
Oh, the blues has got me on the go
Oh, they've got me on the go
They runs around my house, in and out of my front door
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