12th December 7:02 pm

English Heritage’s boss responds to your questions on inclusiveness

This afternoon, we put your questions to Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage.

In order to make it easy to locate specific questions within the podcast, you can find the time codes below.

Introduction: 00:00:01

Q1 Richard Justice: 00:00:46

Q2 Judy Ling Wong OBE – Black Environment Network: 00:02:15

Q3 Pippa Bailey – Independent Consultant: 00:03:21

Q4 Julie Lewis – Teacher: 00:04:41

Q5 Mick Harrington: 00:06:17

Q6 Kati Preston – Multi Cultural Storyteller: 00:07:14

Q7 Brian Hilton – Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People: 00:09:39

Q8 Nick Poole: 00:10:42

Q9 John Preston – Education Secretary, Institute of Historic Building Conservation: 00:12:11

Thanking Simon and final comments: 00:13:20

Click below to play the podcast or download here. (right click on link, ‘Save target as’).

A transcript of the interview is available here.

Do feel free to comment on what Simon’s answers - what do you think about what he said? It’d be great to see more debate on the issues that came up:

How do we share the power of institutions, curators and experts with the wider community so everyone can have a stake in defining what heritage is?

Also, email us with suggestions for future podcast participants. Is there anyone you’d like to put on the ‘hot seat’?

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Posted by Richard Justice - 13th December

this is a great initiative. i wasn’t sure that simon entirely answered my question, but definitely a good step to opening things up!
Posted by Miriam Levin - 11th January

As a point of information, Simon said that English Heritage hasn’t done any work with Travellers. The Outreach Department here has been running a project entitled ‘Kushti Atchin Tan’ (’Good Stopping Place’ in Romany) over the last year.

The South East Outreach Officer has been working with a group of young people from the Traveller community in Kent to create a film enabling the young people to research their cultural and social history and explore contemporary Romany culture as it continues to evolve, using oral history to capture the stories of different generations and change in lifestyles.

The DVD has been produced for use as a teaching aid in schools to raise awareness about Traveller culture. A second phase of the project is now underway and we are producing teaching resources with the Traveller Education Service based on the DVD, for use in secondary schools across Kent.

Resources should be available by Spring 2007. For more information, contact cynara.davies@english-heritage.org.uk