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Natalie Steed

@natalie-steed.bsky.social

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Audio maker at Rhubarb Rhubarb of podcasts (Folk on Foot, The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, Voices of British Ballet, The Sound of Anger) and radio. Black hearted in Battersea.

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · May 9

I've been working on this fantastic project for the past few weeks going into County Record Offices across England with @matthewbannister.bsky.social to look at the music found there, visiting the places associated with it and then recording the music with the marvellous Melrose Quartet.

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 4d

www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

BMA seeks deal on doctor unemployment as survey reveals half of resident doctors finishing foundation training have no job for next month - BMA media centre - BMA

Press release from the BMA

www.bma.org.uk

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a grim situation. 4th year medical student daughter looking ahead and wondering if emigrating to Australia might be the only option for her and her cohort. it’s not just lack of specialist training places. It’s any jobs at all for newly qualified doctors.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d

Newly-qualified doctors in their first year of practice in England have voted in favour of strike action in a row over a shortage of jobs.

Dr Arjan Singh from the British Medical Association tells #BBCBreakfast this year there were 10,000 jobs available for 30,000 candidates

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not just training places - it’s any job at all as a qualified doctor www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...

BMA seeks deal on doctor unemployment as survey reveals half of resident doctors finishing foundation training have no job for next month - BMA media centre - BMA

Press release from the BMA

www.bma.org.uk

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The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2
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2. Forverts! Politics and protest

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 9d

I did, in fact, use “mountebank” the other day in an audio whatsapp group i’m in but I may have ruined it with hyperbole as in “he’s a mountebank circus barker”

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 9d

see also poppinjay

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 9d

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you."

RIP Patricia Routledge.

Patricia Routledge Kitty

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 9d

Patricia Routledge has died, aged 96. Let’s be clear about this: her spectacular performance of Noël Coward’s “I Went To A Marvellous Party” is an utterly delicious masterpiece of comic timing and vivid dramatic intent that will never be bettered. youtu.be/M5xc7HlkjVI

I Went to a Marvellous Party (From "Set to Music")

YouTube video by Patricia Routledge - Topic

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 9d

Well we didn’t win but we saw some very lovely podcast chums and has some fun

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 13d

“should enforce them” surely ..?

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 17d

The fabulous, Bobbie de Lys. "The versatile artists and wonderful male prima donna - top C soprano" with his one man show "Forbidden Love" and "gorgeous dresses".

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 17d

Rupert Hazell and his Cellocordo cutt.ly/jrNL1nry

HAZEL AND DAY

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 17d

Rupert Hazell - "Quite Harmless". Music hall artist and radio personality. Inventor, apparently, of the Cellocordo ...

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 17d

Howard and Crayford: Society Entertainers providing conjuring, storyettes, mimicry, chapeaugraphy (my favourite), monologues and ... paper-tearing.

Magnificent.

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 17d

Some of my favourite ads from The Stage Yearbook 1921 - 1925:

GS Melvin - a Scottish music hall comedian and pantomime dame who did female impersonation parodying hikers, girl guides and cyclists with songs: "I Like to Jump Upon a Bike", "Gladys, The Girl Guide", "I'm Happy When I'm Hiking"

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 21d

Just overheard a very sweet conversation between parent and child refugees - some of those ones from the US we now have in London - about the surprising amount of “jay walking” here. Freedom of the boroughs guys - welcome!

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

Ah yes, who doesn’t have a portrait of oneself, at six, in the kimono given to us by Whistler …

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

A classic of the genre …

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/pulse-c...

Half of doctors finishing foundation training will have no job next month, BMA warns

Half of doctors finishing foundation training say they have no job secured for next month, a BMA survey has found.

www.pulsetoday.co.uk

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

At the same time all uni bursaries are withdrawn. Oh and she’s in utter despair that there are diminishing post- f1 specialism training places or even “just” jobs for newly qualified doctors. At the moment her only real option is to plan to leave the country (for NZ/Australia).

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

My daughter is in yr 5 of a 6yr medical course. She’s fulltime on placements in hospitals, as well as studying and is working a part-time job and living at home because the finance available to yr5&6 med students is so much less than in the “ordinary” student years.

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Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

For all your emergency E F F E C T S! Day or Night! (from the 1947 edition of Who’s Who in Theatre)

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

ah yes - forgot about the repeat today. That was a lovely thing to make. I could listen to their stories for days ...

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 23d

Sigh-my trade association sent me an email celebrating the golden opportunity presented by the new legislation around advertising “less healthy food” not applying to audio; alongside a slightly breathless account of how the new AI is/uk deal will help reduce costs- cos less editing.

Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social · 24d

Hmmmmm - we’ve got a waitrose, gail’s, m&s food, sainsbury’s, asda and a lidl…