To celebrate the launch of the National Trust Soho Stories app (I am one of the narrators) I will be participating the following events:

1. 30th June, 5-7pm Love Charing Cross Road Foyles festival: In association with Spark London and as the highlight of their one-day Soho mini-festival – a ticketed Soho Stories open-mike event in the café at Foyles to be promoted through both Foyles and Blackwells extensive mailing lists and 30,000 Twitter and Facebook followers.

Hosted by Catherine Semark, other guests will include Radcliffe Royds on drugs and homelessness, Tony Hickson on paparazzi and celebs and Barry Miles on Soho’s post-war counter-culture, and Anna Friel on The King of Soho (tbc)

2. 3rd July, 6.30-8pm an evening at Lo-Profile (Soho):  In association Pride festival, the Westminster gay business forum and Gaydar Radio – June: A Soho Stories evening celebrating the history of gay Soho.