An Opinionated Sound is an audio soundscape created by artist Harry Jukes, featuring interview recordings from people in Stoke-on-Trent sharing their thoughts on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

An Opinionated Sound: No Comment by Harry Jukes

An audio soundscape recorded at Berry Hill Fields, Stoke-on-Trent during a dawn chorus community nature walk in September 2023. Featuring ambient sound, conversation and birdsong. Compiled and edited by artist Leanne Cunningham, produced by Urban Wilderness CIC and funded by Keele University as part of the 'Wilder Connections' project exploring local biodiversity.

Dawn Chorus by Leanne Cunningham

Dr Ben Anderson discusses how throughout the 20th C people have accessed wasteland to create a new reality, and introduces the work of Elinor Ostrom in the context of an Urban Commons Charter.

Urban Field Notes 3 Dr Ben Anderson

Dr Ben Anderson, modern historian from Keele University, talks about the involvement of the Windrush Generation in North Staffordshire mining. 

Produced by Urban Wilderness for Keele University's Being Human Festival.

What About Windrush?

Dr Ben Anderson, Modern Historian at Keele University, talks about the Bevin Boys programme during WW2 which enlisted volunteers into North Staffordshire coal mining to help the war effort.

Produced by Urban Wilderness for Keele University's Being Human Festival.

Bevin Boys

Dr Ben Anderson, Modern Historian at Keele University, talks about the offers made to miners during the post-war years.

Produced by Urban Wilderness for Keele University's Being Human Festival.

New Housing, New Mobility

Dr Ben Anderson, Modern Historian at Keele University, talks about the role that displaced workers from Poland played in the North Staffordshire mining industry in the post-war years. 

Produced by Urban Wilderness for Keele University's Being Human Festival.

Polish Recruits

Dr Ben Anderson, Modern Historian at Keele University, talks about programmes that invited workers from across the world to work at North Staffordshire mines. 

Produced by Urban Wilderness for Keele University's Being Human Festival

Westward Ho!

Dr Ben Anderson, Modern Historian at Keele University, talks about the melting pot of cultures that could be found in North Staffordshire pits.

Produced by Urban Wilderness for Keele University's Being Human Festival.

Mining Migrations

Modern Historian Ben Anderson talks about how a wide range of people moved to the area to work at Chatterley Whitfield.

Close - Knit, Not Closed

Urban Wilderness is a not for profit company working with young people to co-create change. We believe that disused public spaces can become sites of positive community action bringing young people and families into the heart of our towns and cities.