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Francesca Panetta visits Cafe OTO, the new music venue in Dalston run by Hamish Dunbar and Keiko Yamamoto, and meets one of their regular performers, Atsuko Kamura. After a lesson in brake tuning at bicycle cafe Lock 7 and a bell-themed sonic adventure along the Regent’s Canal, we conclude with an architectural tour of one of London’s key post-war social housing developments, Woodberry Down, with the Twentieth Century Society’s Suzanne Waters. Contains strong language
Francesca Panetta joins Hackney artist Tom Hunter for a stroll down Mare Street whose many and varied shops are the subject matter of his latest exhibition of photographs currently on display at the V&A Museum of Childhood. In the first of a series of ethics lectures James Wilson ponders the question of difference in Hackney, while Diane Abbott MP offers her views on education in the borough and London mayor Boris Johnson. Plus we catch up with the Manor Garden Allotment community of Hackney Wick at their watery new home in Leyton. Moro restaurant's Sam Clark was there to sort the leaves from the weeds
Francesca Panetta invites Hashley Brown of the London Review of Breakfasts to sample an alternative Full English at Little Georgia at its new home in Goldsmith’s Row, Haggerston - never before have baked beans come under such close scrutiny. She drops in on Ridley Road market where she meets some aggrieved stall holders, and questions Hackney mayor Jules Pipe on market regulation. We end up at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston in the company of arts correspondent Andrew Dickson who reviews their latest production, Torn by Femi Oguns