Riverside Radio

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station Wednesday 28th May 2025

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station. We celebrate country music as Country on the Common is coming to Tooting on 5th and 6th July. And a huge announcement on the show as we launch our weekly radio soap opera The Wandsworth Way with Theatre503 as part of The London Borough of Culture we'll be producing 40 episodes of the serial drama. Hear from the people making the project happen including cheif writer and award winner James Fritz, Nadine Wild-Palmer who's playing the leading character Tash as well as community actors Kieran, Chloe, Seb and Judy and community writers Lilli, Kim, Ian and Orode. Deputy Leader of Wandsworth Council Cllr Kemi Akinola joins as well as Theatre503's Artistic Director Anthony Simpson-Pike and our very important sound designer Farokh Soltani who's stitiching the whole project together and creating the theme tune! For more details please visit thewandsworthway.com and listen out for the first episode on Sunday 29th June at 5pm.

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station Thursday 29th May 2025

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam, Ali Palmer and Battersea Power Station. A public meeting was held earlier this week about Putney High Street with Local MP Fleur Anderson, Wandsworth Council cabinet members Jenny Yates and Kemi Akinola, Positively Putney BID director Nicola Grant, and Met Police Inspector Steve Burke. Riverside Radio's Charlie Pritchard was also there and this morning we speak to Fleur Anderson and Nicola Grant on the future of Putney High Street, how they are attempting to tackle some of the issues such as traffic and shoplifting plus some good news as M&S are making a return. We also want to know what are the delights and frights of your local high street in south west London? Charlie Pritchard has all the latest local news and sport in Riverside Reports plus we announce our new Riverside Reads, Breakfast Book Club book of the month which is 'The Blood Line' by Will Shindler which centres on an MP from a fictional Wimbledon constituency.

 

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station Monday 2nd June 2025

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station. We start our coverage of Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2025 and this year there's more than ever as Wandsworth celebrates being the London Borough of Culture. Jason and Ali meet Catherine Sweet from the BobCat Art Gallery in Putney who speaks about the international non-profit arts organisation ArtCan who'll be taking over the gallery in Putney's Exchange Shopping Centre between 3rd - 21st June and Janet Shipton from Parky Players Theatre Group who explains how a group of people living with Parkinsons got together throuhg comedy and their performance at the Balham Baptist Church this weekend called 'Been There, Done That, Got The Symptoms!' We also discuss the 90th anniversary of the driving test by asking if you passed first time and any other stories on learning to drive or being tested. Tom Hopkinson has all the latest local news and sport in Riverside Reports. Martin Adams is our quiz master in Monday's Breakfast Grill. 

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station Tuesday 3rd June 2025

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam, Ali Palmer and Battersea Power Station. It's Charity Tuesday so we speak to George Turner from Carney's Community in Battersea. The youth organisation is taking part in the BIG GIVE fortnight to raise funds for the workshops they run for young people to teach them the skills essential for navigating life, including bike mechanics, mental health, cooking, photography, life skills, employment and money. Jason and Ali want to know if you were in a youth club and what activities you got up to.

Our Wandsworth Arts Fringe coverage continues with Andy Dickenson who's putting on a comedy play at the Battersea Barge called Everest Mallory 24 (with Stanley) and members of the London Chinese Chamber Ensemble tell us about their shows at the National Opera Studio in Wandsworth and St Mary's Church in Putney. For more information and tickets visit welcometowandsworth.com

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam and Battersea Power Station Wednesday 4th June 2025

Riverside Breakfast with Jason Rosam, Ali Ineson and Battersea Power Station. Jason takes a trip to Battersea Park Children's Zoo and adopts the otters but what animal would you like adopt from the zoo and why? Jason has also trained 5 Young Reporters from across Wandsworth as part of the London Borough of Culture to interview Wandsworth Arts Fringe Artists, today we hear Shreyas Suresh talk to Emma Howarth, the musical director of All Saints Church in Tooting who is offering audiences to hear and play their renowned Harrison church organ. Pianust and composer Rieko Makita joins us ot tell us about her Immersive Night Music Show at the World Heart Beat Concert Hall in Nine Elms and singer Melissa James tell us about her Concert: Stripped Back at The Bedford in Balham as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2025. You can find out more and book tickets at welcometowandsworth.com