Podcast of The Big City Plan Launch · Stef Lewandowski

I grabbed a 50 minute recording of all of the speeches, which I’m posting here for your listening pleasure (?).

Speaking:

Clive Dutton - Director of Planning, Birmingham City Council (0:00 - 3:37)

Mike Whitby - Leader of Birmingham City Council (3:37 - 27:05)

Nevill Summerfield - Regeneration at Birmingham City Council (27:05 - 32:09)

Alex Bishop - Chair of Birmingham Future (32:09 - 36:50)

Kelvin Campbell - Urban Initiatives (36:50 - 46:27)

Clive Dutton wraps up (46:27 - 50:00)

(background sound is a film that started playing. I’m uploading that in full in a separate post)

(Sickbag warning - I got name-dropped - sorry. And there’s some mobile phone noise.).

Longer post to come with video, photos, etc.

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Helios — CaesuraMusic · 2008

Earlier in writing: I’m Tig. Later in writing: South by South West (Midlands).

About this piece

First published 28 Feb 2008.

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