ROBERT ELMS RADIO SHOW  Interview with Mel Wright about Margareta Berger-Hamerschlag 1pm Wednesday 17th June 2009

Beyond the jive gangs - Mel Wright talks at The Museum of London - The Story of London Festival  Thu 18 Jun, 1.10-2.10pm

"Alcoholism, anger management, loneliness, pensioner poverty, racism: the problems customers can brew up in a pub with a shouty street market on the doorstep are enough to fill a social worker's week."

Author Mel Wright's Beyond the Jiving is a fascinating portrait of an artist's life, writes Germaine Arnold.