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It is the second week of COP26 and Belongings delves into the issues of Climate activism and whether it is representative of everyone or are there barriers that prevent people from engaging in the conversation. We hear from Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping as they arrive from New York to tour the UK and finishing up in Glasgow.
Juliet Gilkes Romero is an award-winning writer for stage and screen.  Her play The Whip about the battle for abolition in 1833, opened at the Royal Shakespeare Company and won the Alfred Fagon award for Best New Play in 2020. Her play about West Indian troops fighting during the First World War ‘At The Gates of Gaza’ played at the New Wolsey and won the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Best Play Award 2009.
Juliet also wrote the episode Yvonne for Soon Gone; A Windrush Chronicle co-produced by Sir Lenny Henry’s production company Douglas Road and the ±«Óãtv Drama.
The legendary Funk Les Spaine emerged as one of the most important British club DJ’s of the 70’s with Residencies at The Pun Club and the legendary Timepiece Club in Liverpool before moving onto a career in the music industry working for EMI, MOTOWN and CAPITAL RECORDS.
In the 70’s/80’s he worked with such legends as Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Ritchie, The Commodores, Rick James, Jermaine Jackson, Smoky Robinson, Billy Preston, Syreeta & many more before transitioning to Capital Records.