This week we start with one of Martin Cosgrave, aka. Martians compositions from 2002 entitled I tried to write a song - you can download this and other tunes from that album here http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/102748
John and Martin both live in the Bearpit, but not any more. This interview was recorded less than a week before they were evicted. Bristol City Council finally obtained a possession order on Thursday 9th June at 3pm in twice adjourned case FOOBS512 with District Judge Stephanie Cope and Bristol City Councils barrister Iain Wightwick from Unity Street Chambers without proving ownership. Here Martin and John explain how they ended up homeless in Bristol, and relate some of what its like to live not knowing if youre going to be evicted when you wake up every morning. https://prsc.org.uk/bearpit/
In it The factual story behind many of Ian Flemings bestselling novels Tony Gosling reviews the non-fiction dissident book Op. JB, short for Operation James Bond by John Ainsworth Davis aka. Christopher Creighton. A teenage spy, recruited in the 1930s by Winston Churchill and his private secretary Desmond Morton, is groomed throughout the second world war as a Nazi double agent. His ultimate role is to bring the Nazi partys Reichsleiter chief Martin Bormann from Berlin to the British sector in the closing days of the war, and with him the keys to the vast looted wealth of Hitlers hated regime and party. https://friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk/recent-events/