BBC LONDON Robert Elms Show

BBC LONDON Robert Elms Show Daniel will be discussing Walls Come Tumbling Down at 11.30am About the programme The Robert Elms show is a celebration of every aspect of this tumultuous city that we share. Three hours a day we revel in the stories and characters, memories and aspirations which make this such a great [...]

Punky Reggae Party at the British Library

Punky Reggae Party at the British Library With very special guests: Dennis Bovell Tom Robinoson Lucy Whitburg Kate Webb To celebrate the publication of Walls Come Tumbling Down: the music and politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge. Rock Against Racism formed to fight ‘the racist poison in rock music.’ With an [...]

Rough Trade East with very special guests

Rough Trade presents Walls Come Tumbling Down: the music and politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge an evening of conversation and live music with special guests Neil Spencer (Observer writer /former Editor of NME) Lesley Woods (Au Pairs) Rhoda Dakar (Bodysnatchers / Special AKA) Attila the Stockbroker  and author Daniel Rachel [...]

BBC Radio 2 Book Club: Fact Not Fiction

  Radio 2 Book Club: Walls Come Tumbling Down Walls Come Tumbling Down by Daniel Rachel will feature on the Radio 2 Fact not Fiction Book Club on Thursday 15 September. The book was selected with the help of a panel made up of Reading Agency and library staff from across the UK. Find out [...]

BBC London Rock Against Racism Special

BBC London Rock Against Racism Special A 90 minute special discussing Rock Against Racism with specials guests: Rhoda Dakar (Bodysnatchers / Special AKA) Lucy 'Toothpaste' Whitman (Rock Against Racism) Mykaell Riley (Steel Pulse) Daniel Rachel (Walls Come Tumbling Down) Hosted by Dotun Adebayo  

BBC Radio 4 World Tonight

BBC Radio 4 World Tonight In conversation with Ritula Shah A self confessed "anorak" Ritula has been listening to Radio 4 ever since she can remember. She woke up with Jack de Manio and "listened with mother". Having ignored her father's advice to become a lawyer, she graduated in History from Warwick University in 1988. Soon [...]

Birmingham Literature Festival

  Birmingham Literature Festival Walls Come Tumbling Down October 13 @ 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm £12/£9.60, Festival Pass: FREE Daniel Rachel’s new book Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for arguably the first and last time in Britain’s musical history; musicians and their fans [...]

BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show with Shaun Keaveny

BBC 6 Music Breakfast Show with Shaun Keaveny Irreverent music lover Shaun serves up music, features and entertainment Daniel discusses Walls Come Tumbling Down with Shaun

Wanstead Tap with Steel Pulse (Mykaell Riley) and Neil Spencer (NME)

Wanstead Tap with Steel Pulse (Mykaell Riley)  and Neil Spencer (NME) THE WANSTEAD TAP Walls Come Tumbling Down with Daniel Rachel October 19th 5.00 Join author Daniel Rachel in conversation with Mykaell Riley (former lead vocalist with Steel Pulse) and  Neil Spencer (fromer editor of NME) as they discuss the history of the Rock Against Racism, Red [...]

RT TV: Sputnik – Orbiting the World with George Galloway

RT TV: Sputnik - Orbiting the World with George Galloway Sputnik is broadcast every Saturday on RT UK (Russia Today in English), on Sky 512 and Freeview 135, and to a global audience online. Previous guests include: - Writers the Rt Hon Lord Alan Watson CBE, Peter Oborne, Quentin Letts, Seamus Milne, Patrick Cockburn, Kerry-Anne Mendoza, Ewen MacAskill, Dr [...]

Musicport Festival in conversation with Don Letts

Musicport in conversation with Don Letts Screening of Clash 'Westway To The World' and 'Days Like These' Red Wedge Screening of Red Wedge ‘Days Like These’ featuring Billy Bragg, Lloyd Cole, Communards, Junior, Phill Jupitus, Madness, Johnny Marr, Tom Robinson, Paul Weller and many more.   ‘Days Like These’ documents the 1986 Red Wedge tour when [...]

BBC Leeds interview

BBC Leeds interview   In conversation with Gayle Lofthouse on BBC Radio Leeds.

BBC 5 Live Up All Night – Virtual Jukebox

BBC 5 Live Up All Night - Virtual Jukebox Daniel is the special guest contributor on the Virtual Jukebox. July 16 @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC 5 Live Up All Night  2:00 am - 4:00 am BBC Radio 5 July 16l @ 2:00 am - 4:00 am Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo and Daniel Rachel Your chance to help Dotun and [...]

BBC Radio Norfolk interview

BBC Radio Norfolk interview In conversation with Stephen Bumfrey on Norfolk’s top entertainment show, with guests and features.

Humbermouth – Hull Literary Festival

Humbermouth - Hull LIterary Festival Days Like These screening   Red Wedge ‘Days Like These’ featuring Billy Bragg, Lloyd Cole, Communards, Junior, Phill Jupitus, Madness, Johnny Marr, Tom Robinson, Paul Weller and many more.   ‘Days Like These’ documents the 1986 Red Wedge tour when chart topping popstars joined forces on stages across the UK [...]

Louder Than Words

Louder Than Words   Contributors Published on July 22nd, 2016 | by LTWF 0 Daniel Rachel Daniel Rachel is the author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters an NME and Guardian Book of the Year. He is a musician and songwriter, and a specialist director bringing drama to non-theatrical settings. After reading an American book called Songwriters [...]

Hoxton Radio

Hoxton Radio Talking with Jenn Crothers

BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keevney Show

This programme will be available shortly after broadcast Author Daniel Rachel joins Shaun Shaun Keaveny Shaun is in search of your earworms. What song have you woken with in your head? We'll play one before the 8am news. Plus, author Daniel Rachel chats about his new book 'Walls Come Tumbling Down'. The book charts the [...]

Broadway Bookshop in conversation with KEN WORPOLE

WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN: A TALK with DANIEL RACHEL in conversation with KEN WORPOLE Wednesday, 7 December 2016 at 07.00am We are thrilled to announce that Daniel Rachel, author of WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN (published by Picador) will be in conversation with writer and historian Ken Worpole at the shop on Wednesday 7 December 2016. Daniel's [...]

Bringing the House Down! in conversation with Billy Bragg

Bringing the House Down! Daniel Rachel in conversation with Billy Bragg Thursday 8th December 19:00 at London - Piccadilly Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of [...]

Union Chapel Billy Bragg Book Signing

Union Chapel Billy Bragg Book Signing Daniel will be signing copies of Walls Come Tumbling Down at Billy Bragg's gig in Islington    

Institute of Historical Research

Institute of Historical Research A talk by Daniel including images and film footage.  Walls Come Tumbling Down. From Rock Against Racism to Red Wedge Date 13 Feb 2017, 17:30 to 13 Feb 2017, 19:30   Series Socialist History   Venue IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Description [...]