Commissioned by the Museum of London and launched in 2003, Graeme Miller’s LINKED is a radio installation installed on lampposts across 3 miles of East London. It broadcasts the stories and voices of 60+ people affected by the creation of the M11 Link Rd in the 1990s which involved the demolition of over 400 buildings amid dramatic and passionate protest.
Now fully restored, LINKED is an audio trail which can be walked or wheeled. To hear the work, pick up a radio receiver & map on one of our free open days hosted in Leyton and Wanstead libraries.
Along a 3-mile route between Hackney Marshes and Redbridge Roundabout, 20 analogue radio transmitters can be heard by anyone with a special receiver, revealing the voices of people who once lived and worked in the area – resident families, road protestors, railway-workers, teachers, disco-goers, and artists from the substantial community living in houses destroyed by the road. Together the assembly of voices evokes a cross-section of ordinary East London life.
Over the years some of the transmitters have been lost – to a lorry crashing into a lamppost, to accidentally being taken down by contractors, to weather, time and entropy. In 2023-24, we restored the entire network and hosted monthly open days/events through support from Arts Council England and the Morris Gallery/TATE Radical Landscapes offsite programme.
In 2025, we will be hosting open days based at local libraries - please see below for details and how to get involved.
To listen to an excerpt of LINKED, go to Late Junction, Radio 3 (1 hour into the programme)
Open days coming up
27 September 2025: Wanstead Library (11am - 5pm)
12 July 2025: Leyton Library ((11am - 5pm)
See here for information about how to experience the audio trail
Past open days
14 September 2024: Wanstead Library, Wanstead Festival
6 July 2024: Leytonstone Art Trail
22 & 23 June 2024: Leyton Library, in collaboration with The Demolition Project
18 & 19 May 2024: Leyton Library
20 & 21 April 2024: Leyton Library
22 & 23 March 2024: Leyton Library
17 February 2024: Radical Landscapes at Leyton Library
20 January 2024: Radical Landscapes at Leyton Library
25 November 2023: Radical Landscapes at Leyton Library
Talks:
2 June 2025: Chelsea College of Arts
7 November 2024: London College of Communications
28 October 2024: Guided walk, London College of Communications
17 September 2024 Leytonstone walking group for over 60s
11 July 2024: 20 years of LINKED: screening & talk at Filly Brook, Leytonstone
18 May 2024: Sound Table participatory conversation at Leytonstone Library
31 January 2024: Talk at Morris Gallery: Abel Holsborough, Zaiba Jabbar, Graeme Miller, Hadrian Garrard
Credits
LINKED was commissioned by the Museum of London in 2003 and originally produced by Mark Godber, Judith Knight and Gill Lloyd, Artsadmin. The making of LINKED was generously supported by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, London Boroughs Grants Committee part of the Association of London Government, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the London Boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest. The restoration of LINKED (2022 – 2024) is supported by Arts Council England.
With deep thanks to all the many interviewees, production teams and friends involved in developing LINKED.
Researchers who developed the interview content for LINKED (2003): Lucy Cash, Myra Heller, Dan Saul, Michael Sherin, Helen Statman. Original technical design by Simon Beer of Integrated Circles.
Production (2023/24): Steve Wald, Mike Harrison, Lydia Newman, Chris Warner, Lou Doyle, Vida Vojić
Executive Producer: Nikki Tomlinson
Images: Graeme Miller