


LINKED is a radio installation/sound walk installed on lampposts across 3 miles of East London, a response to the creation of the M11 Link Rd in the 1990s which involved the demolition of over 400 buildings.
Commissioned by the Museum of London and running since 2003, LINKED radio transmitters have broadcast over a million times the voices of 60 people who lived or worked in the buildings erased by the road.
Watch a 1min film about LINKED here
To experience this sound work in person, you can borrow a small radio receiver, headphones and map on one of our open days hosted in libraries along the route.
The full route can take several hours to complete on foot, by wheelchair or by bike. However we can offer guidance on shorter routes according to your preferences, and you are welcome to do one section, stop in one of the many cafes en route, and come and go as you wish.
Further information about LINKED:
LINKED has endured as perhaps the largest sonic installation and sculptural entity in London for 20 years, broadcasting over a million times the voices and stories of people who lived or worked in the area impacted by the road.
Along a route between Hackney Marshes and Redbridge Roundabout (adjacent to the Link Rd) analogue radio transmitters reveal the voices and stories of 60 people who once lived and worked in the area – families, road protestors, railway-workers, teachers, disco-goers, and artists from the substantial community living in houses destroyed by the road – among them Cornelia Parker, John Smith, Christine Binnie and Ian Bourn. Together the assembly of voices evokes a fascinating and moving cross-section of East London life.
Open days coming up
12 July 2025: Leytonstone Library ((11am - 5pm)
FREE. Full information & booking here
27 September 2025: Wanstead Library (11am - 5pm)
Booking opens in August.
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) was 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