Kit Finnie is an artist, poet and performer and our local legend for today. Kit is a member of Barbican Young Poets, a Roundhouse Resident Artist and a member of the Writing Room. She's been commissioned by the Barbican Centre, the BBC, and, in collaboration with Danyal Dhondy, to write a piece for orchestra and narrator for Orchestras for All.

We chat to Holly-Anna (Holly) Petersen, a Mental Health Practitioner who works for Talk Changes, the NHS talking therapies service in Hackney based at St Leonard’s Hospital.  

Jonathan Lakin reviews Atis in the Food Review. A new, exciting eatery near Old Street, Atis serves a selection of salads and warms bowls with a plant-forward focus. Serving up coffee, breakfast, lunch + dinner.

Oliver Bennett is the Editor at EC1 Echo and is teaching Hunt & Darton how to run a community newspaper.

He also works as an editor and writer at Brave New World (Barclays Little Book of Wonders, TOWN magazine) High50. He has a huge portfolio of Fleet Street features and has worked on many freelance projects and copywriting jobs including for The School of Life, Tate, Theis + Khan, Se furniture and Noble Caledonia among many others.

Bourgeois & Maurice play us out with the final of BC World (Before Covid). At a time when we’re all feeling helpless and questioning our role in the world. We’re looking to the real saviours who are helping humanity through this crisis, the unsung heroes, those who don’t need the claps, they just do it because they must.

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