The Trust is pleased to announce that our former Chair, Gillian Reynolds, is the guest on Desert Island Discs this week – yesterday morning, repeated on Friday 8 June and available any time on the BBC Website.

Damian le Bas, who wrote and presented the documentary ‘Searching for the Travelling People’, was a guest on Start the Week this morning along with Arundhati Roy – the programme is on the BBC website

The second edition of our Actuality magazine was launched on the 2018 Charles Parker Day at the British Library in London, and at the AGM of the Friends of the Charles Parker Archive on 17 May

The judges for the 2018 Charles Parker Prize have just announced their five shortlisted nominees for Best Student Radio Feature. Congratulations to our five finalists and everyone who entered.

It’s now possible to subscribe as a Friend of the Charles Parker Archive online. You don’t have to have a Paypal account and it’s not expensive!

The People’s Voice website was launched on 15 February 2018. Created by staff at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and funded by the Carnegie Trust, it contains over 1000 poems, song recordings, essays and school resources.