Storycatchers Project Sound Recording
London Borough of Culture 2025 – Storycatchers Oral Histories: Nic Ambola Whiting interviewing Millie, Rose, Senoja and Anonymous at Furzedown Project. 30th June 2025
This sound recording is part of the Storycatchers Project, a heritage initiative delivered by Wandsworth Council's Arts & Culture Service as part of the London Borough of Culture 2025 programme. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the project paired five young creatives from Wandsworth’s Global Majority communities with local elders to document and preserve their oral histories.
In this recording, interviewer Nic Ambola Whiting engages in a rich, multi-voice conversation with Millie, Rose, Senoja, and an anonymous contributor at the Furzedown Project. The participants reflect on their migration journeys from African, Caribbean, and South Asian countries to the UK, sharing personal stories of hardship, resilience, and adaptation. They reminisce about the foods of their homelands and the challenges of sourcing familiar ingredients in Britain when the first arrived.
Recorded using a Zoom 4
Artist Biography
Nic Ambola Whiting has recently moved to Wandsworth to study screenwriting, and often finds inspiration from local people to write about in projects. Documenting everyday life is interesting to Nic, and this has also been pursued through photography. Being half Nigerian but growing up in England, she wanted to explore the link between how someone’s heritage and culture can be kept alive through community. And how traditional foods and events can bring the community together. Nic was part of the first cohort of the Storycatchers project in 2025.
Wandsworth Borough Council
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