EastCast

Find out about The Big House Theatre Company, an organisation changing the lives of young people who are or have been in the care system, we also talk to Jo Duncombe from the Birds Eye View Film Festival, and we have a peek of the Merchant of Venice, a play happening in St. Leonard's Church in Shoreditch. Finally, tune in to discover all about a very unusual group of cyclists that want to get more people into pedaling, the I Bike London.

On this week's show we explore how you can get fit and help the community with Good Gym, discover a film event in Bethnal Green Town Hall called Second Chance Cinema, talk to Smash Lab about their accessible performing arts event at the Book Club and find out how tech start up Dropr are providing an essential service for artists to present their work. We feature music from Dominique Young Unique, François & The Atlas Mountains, Tycho, The Orange Revival and Sinah all playing in East London soon.

Packed show this week on EastCast as we go on an audio tour of the brain to find out what the organ sounds like, plus Guerilla Science tell us about a brain themed feast in a Dalston basement later this month. We hear from the residents of traditional market on Crisp Street in Poplar in the first of a series of podcasts. We also caught up with Mike, the Dalston busker who we spoke to a few months ago when he was threatened with eviction. He's now recorded a mini album so we'll be playing a track from that, as well as other music by bands playing around the East End, like Julia Kent, Lindstron and Context. Listings include St Patrick's Day shenanigans, theatre a sea shanty choir. We've got East London covered.

We've got a great show lined up with a live session by All The Queen's Ravens, and interviews with the curator of a vintage NASA photo exhibition, and with the lead actor of new play Heaven Can Wait. We talk to folk who run Roman Road's cafe and creative space Muxima. Music this week includes Kendra Morris, Preditah and Naked On Drugs, all playing live in East London in the coming weeks. Listings involve eating insects in a pop up in Hoxton and win tickets to ghostly films accompanied by spooky organ music in a church... Just tweet @eastcastshow with your favourite horror film! EastCast has East London covered www.eastcastshow.com

On this week's EastCast we talk to female entrepreneurs - one has managed to stop traffic in Hackney and the other has found refuge in an old public loo. Our guest is a curator of a series of sustainability themed exhibitions at the Arcola Theatre. Music this week includes CA Smith, Outfit and Half Moon Run, all playing live in East London over the coming weeks. We also have our usual array of listings including existentialist theatre, art from a Siberian painter, a book group and a call out for poets to take part in a "one minute challenge" talent contest.