Regular listeners to this podcast will know that our name is partly taken from poet William Blake's Vision of Angels in Peckham Rye.Apparently these angels were in an oak treee which isn't there any more ... so the Blake Society came down to the Rye to plant a new one, and Richard Leeming went along too ...…

In Episode Four of Here Be Angels ... we're down the pub, twice, and in a car park ...Sarah Jane Griffiths investigates an exciting new live m,usic venue in Nunhead - The Ivy House Pub: www.ivyhouselondon.comIn the run-up to the Peckham and Nunhead Free Film festival www.freefilmfestivals.org Sarah Kazakos has been down the the Montpelier www.themo…

On August 8 2011, two nights after disturbances had broken out in Tottenham and spread to other parts of London, there was an outbreak of looting and rioting on Peckham High Street and Rye Lane.This podcast looks at the aftermath of those events and the start of the effort to heal the divisions in Peckham.Post Riot Peckham is co-ordinating those ef…

In which Heather Davies visits a popup food and craft emporium in Nunhead, Richard Leeming investigates English Heritage's visit to Peckham and the plans for a conservation area on Rye Lane and Peckham Hill Street, no really, and Heather and Richard enjoy a Campari or three at the start of the official Peckham season.Complaints, invoices, bribes, s…

Here be Angels is a podcast about life in Peckham and East Dulwich. It's produced by Richard Leeming, Heather Davies and Sarah Jane Griffiths.It's telling stories about life in SE15 and SE22. No drugs, no guns, no fools, no horses.In the first episode Heather Davies looks at what makes Lordship Lane one of the most successful local high streets in …