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The Power of Words

The Morley Drop

Show 44

9.09.26

 

The Morley Drop is your weekly scoop from Morley Radio! Join the Morley Radio Team, every week with a mix of handpicked tunes, the latest Morley news, event highlights, and plenty of surprises along the way. Whether you are tuning in for the music, the stories, or just to stay in the loop, The Morley Drop is your go-to guide to what’s happening in and around Morley. Tune into life at Morley, your midweek soundtrack; music, community and more. Every Wednesday at 2pm, live on Morley Radio.

 

This week we celebrate International Literacy Day with songs inspired by reading, writing and the power of words, alongside an episode of Getting to Know You, a Morley Radio podcast created by students from Morley College London’s Speaking with Confidence course.

 

Music theme: Literacy

 

Emerging Music Spotlight: Amber – Maddie Ashman

 

Events/Links

 

Making Faces

Zsuzsi Roboz Fellowship at Morley Gallery

10-26 September

 

Penny Lecture: in conversation with Lord Neil Kinnock

17th September 6:30-7:30

Waterloo Centre

 

Book recommendations:

 

Thinking Gaza: An Essay on Ferocity by Franco Bifo Berardi

How To Make Great Radio: Techniques and tips for today’s broadcasters and producers by David Lloyd

 

End of the Road Festival

 

Tracklist:

I Could Write a Book – Dinah Washington

Bookshelf Riddim – Beenie Man, Tony “CD” Kelly

Poet – Sly and the Family Stone

Getting to Know You – Episode 1

Higher Vibes – BCUC

Rewrite – Paul Simon

I’m Writing A Novel – Father John Misty

Amber – Maddie Ashman

Rising Legends – Anna von Hausswolff

Tragwyddoldeb – Cerys Hafana