Portrait of a Londoner Catriona Maybury and Muna Hassan

In this episode we talk to Sydenham based director Henry Blake and producer Victoria Bavister a husband and wife team who have recently made the feature film County Lines.

County Lines is a powerful and moving coming-of-age film about a 14 year old boy who is groomed into a ‘county lines’ criminal network.Inspired by the stories he heard while mentoring young people at an East London pupil referral unit, writer-director Henry Blake’s powerful feature debut boasts a compelling central performance by Conrad Khan as 14-year-old Tyler, with strong supporting performances from Ashley Madekwe and Harris Dickinson.

Amina Hassan is a psychotherapist who has worked in the NHS for more than 25 years. Amina’s specialism is in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy which looks at how each of us is part of a wider network or ‘system’ and looks deeply at our interactions with other people and how the system works. The aim is to help people to understand each other better and develop new ways to talk to each other.

Amina Hassan is a psychotherapist who has worked in the NHS for more than 25 years. Amina’s specialism is in Family and Systemic Psychotherapy which looks at how each of us is part of a wider network or ‘system’ and looks deeply at our interactions with other people and how the system works. The aim is to help people to understand each other better and develop new ways to talk to each other.

Mark Salter qualified in East London in 1983. In 1994 he became a Consultant in Adult General Psychiatry at St Bartholomew's and the Homerton Hospitals in London has remained in this post to the present.

He is presently responsible for the provision of adult general psychiatric care to a deprived inner city area which is extremely varied in terms of psychopathology and socio-cultural make-up. His day-to-day work routinely brings him into clinical contact with psychiatric disorders including depression, schizophrenia, PTSD and organic cerebral syndromes. His professional areas of special interests include the ethics of psychiatry, the psychopathology of trauma, substance misuse and community care.

Mark Salter qualified in East London in 1983. In 1994 he became a Consultant in Adult General Psychiatry at St Bartholomew's and the Homerton Hospitals in London has remained in this post to the present.

He is presently responsible for the provision of adult general psychiatric care to a deprived inner city area which is extremely varied in terms of psychopathology and socio-cultural make-up. His day-to-day work routinely brings him into clinical contact with psychiatric disorders including depression, schizophrenia, PTSD and organic cerebral syndromes. His professional areas of special interests include the ethics of psychiatry, the psychopathology of trauma, substance misuse and community care.

Rebecca Seal is an award-winning food and personal development writer. She has been freelance for over 10 years, and in an attempt to help other solo workers navigate, survive and thrive in the strange world of working alone, she wrote Solo: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind). It's a thoroughly researched, easy to read book, pulling on behavioural science, organisation psychology and economics. She has also written eight cookbooks!!