From Mumbai slum to podcast star: Sangeeta Pillai’s story of resistance and persistence
Poplar activist Sangeeta Pillai is on a mission to break taboos for South Asian women using a microphone as her
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Poplar activist Sangeeta Pillai is on a mission to break taboos for South Asian women using a microphone as her
Read moreMuhsin Mahmud has just returned from the glitz and glamour of the Academy Awards, where his passion for media started
Read moreIn the wake of founder Tony Haynes’ passing, the latest branch of East London’s Grand Union Orchestra creates a genre-defying
Read moreOfficially opened by the Prince of Wales in 1897, the Blackwall Tunnel’s construction process was far from smooth, with changes
Read moreAffable and down to earth, Asuquo uses everything from kids’ books to reels to teach normal people about their finances.
Read moreTower Hamlets street markets have long adapted to its changing, entrepreneurial population. 800 years old, what does the fish market’s
Read moreThis year’s festive trip to Poplar with our favourite midwives from Nonnatus House will be a double-bill special. The BBC
Read moreHenry Moore carved his ‘Draped Seated Woman’ for a Stepney Council Estate, so is its current home in Canary Wharf
Read moreAnything goes at this gem of a theatre on the Isle of Dogs treasured by emerging writers and performers –
Read moreLuba Lukhanina, who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022, reminisces about her childhood along the Dnieper River, the
Read moreFrom warehouse worker to housing advocate, octogenarian Derrick Cutler has seen Limehouse transform in real-time and fought on behalf of
Read moreThe first in a four-part series about the threat to Poplar’s pioneering social housing, we look at how post-war architects
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