It is one of the biggest events in London’s cultural calendar - and this year record numbers of female DJs, producers and engineers will be visible at Notting Hill Carnival.
Tech & Science Daily podcast speaks with Linett Kamala, an expert on Jamaican-inspired sound systems, a Carnival pioneer and Central Saint Martin’s lecturer, who was just 15 years old when she played her first Notting Hill DJ set in 1985 - and she’s now launched with a music mentoring programme, Guinness-sponsored Original Sounds Collective.
We discuss the crossover of skills from analogue to digital being taught - and Linett’s joins us on the line from Powis Square, where she’s setting up speaker stacks, amps and wiring for maximum quality on the Disco Hustlers sound system.
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Dr Michelle Thaller, a research scientist at the US-based Goddard Space Flight Centre believes the most likely hideaway for extraterrestrial bacterial life is actually on Venus - where no human could survive.
A 26-year-old club runner who beat quadruple Olympic champion and fellow south-west Londoner Sir Mo Farah over 10,000 metres says the pressure from the media duties afterwards rocked his mental health.
Ellis Cross appeared on television, in the papers and went viral on social media after powering over the finishing line by Buckingham Palace in 24 minutes and 28 seconds in last year’s Vitality London 10,000 - which was four seconds faster than Sir Mo.
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