A programme of art, architecture and infrastructure to mark the centenary of the UK’s biggest council housing estate

Radio Ballads
Live from Barking and Dagenham Town Hall
Playing this Tuesday at 2pm and on rotation all week.
Radio Ballads presents four bodies of work created through collaboration with social workers, carers, organisers and residents.

Write Back
Storytellers
Playing Friday at 1pm and on rotation all week.
Original fiction written and read by the Write Back youth.

Georgie Hart
From the Hart - ep.2
Playing this Monday at noon and on rotation all week.
How to make friends as a teenager with a disability

Storytime with Melody
Happy I'm a Hippo
Playing Wednesday at 7pm and on rotation all week.
Children's stories from Valence Library read aloud by local volunteer Melody.

2022 Barking Folk Festival
music
Playing Thursday at 1pm and on rotation all week.
Selections from the festival headliners

Write On!
May Episode
Playing Thursday at noon and on rotation all week.
The May 2022 edition of Write On!

Valence House Archive Oral History
Dauda
Playing Wednesday at 11am and on rotation all week.
A Barking Stink Oral History: Dauda Ladejobi

Lindsay Rust
The Wondrous Mind of Lindsay Rust, episode 2
Playing Friday at noon, and on rotation all week.
Original poems and music selections from local writer Lindsay Rust

Arc Theatre
station ID
BBS Station ID between programs powered by Raised Voices
Recorded during a workshop with Raised Voices, Arc Theatre’s female leadership and peer mentoring project for young people in the LBBD.