Notting Hill Carnival: Europe's biggest street party!

<p><a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/notting-hill-carnival-2022-map-parade-route-location-what-when-lineup-timings-b1015573.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Notting Hill Carnival is back</a>. Europe’s biggest street party is expected to bring around 2 million people into London. The event has just been on a three-year hiatus because of Covid. We speak with carnival veteran Clary Salandy who’s been designing costumes for the event since the 1980s.</p><br><p>Plus we hear from Tamsin Salfrais from <a href="https://www.colourscarnival.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colours Carnival</a>,a Mas Band for the Carnival parade, and the Evening Standard’s Culture Commissioning Editor <a href="https://twitter.com/jochanembley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jochan Embley.</a></p><br><p>In this episode:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why this year will be ‘bigger and better than ever’</li><li>How significant is Notting Hill Carnival for London?</li><li>What is new this year</li><li>How culturally important is the festival?</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/EveningStandard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Follow us on Twitter</a> #TheLeaderPodcast and for more news go to the <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Evening Standard website</a>.</p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>