Kieron Yates joins Southwark Cyclists for the inaugural John Peel Memorial Ride in homage to the great British broadcaster and champion of the underdog. Jack rides with Brendt Barbur, founding director of the Bicycle Film Festival on the day after the festival took London by storm. MP3
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24 October 2005 Show: John Peel memorial ride and the Bicycle Film Festival
October 27, 2005 · Jack Thurston
25 April 2005: G8 Protest Bike Ride
October 7, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Special feature on the G8 Bike Ride (mass protest ride from London to the G8 Summit in Scotland) with organisers Tim and Tabitha. Featuring music from David Cronenberg’s Wife and Lower Depths. MP3
(Archive) 17 January 2005: David Ferry
October 7, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Guest is David Ferry, photo-montage artist and serious road biker. Talking about escaping seaside town drudgery by cycling into the hills. MP3
(Archive) 3 January 2005 Show: Christmas Day on the South Downs
October 7, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Christmas Day ride across the south downs of East Sussex, including a climb up Ditchling Beacon with writer and film-maker Nicky Hamlyn. Followed by hot bath. MP3
(Archive) 13 December 2004: The Dunwich Dynamo
September 21, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Dunwich Dynamo night ride special. Four hundred plus people ride 120 miles to the Suffolk Coast, through the night, under the full moon. MP3
15 August 2005: Green cycling
September 20, 2005 · Jack Thurston
Guest presenter Matt Tempest quizzes Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly on cycle policy in the capital. Jack rides with Alix Stredwick of Sustrans, the UK’s main sustainable transportation organisation. MP3
22 August 2005 Show – a countryside trip
September 5, 2005 · Jack Thurston
A ride on the Kent-Sussex border with my old school friend, writer and wilderness guru Daniel Start. We evoke the Edwardian spirit of genteel cycle touring and our ride takes in a ruined castle, ancient woodland, a dangerous cliff excursion, an encounter with a barn owl and a visit to a man buried in a [...]
