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Hello You 85: Paths, Power Cuts, Pantomimes
Shropshire is a welcoming place … and it’s also home to hundreds of Places of Welcome.
Places of Welcome is a national network of more than six hundre…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hello You 84: Life is a Learning Curve
‘Anything that’s big and frightening, I’ll be there’
Jacqueline Porteous left school as soon as she could, with no qualifications … but with an unshak…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hello You 83: 'Are you a secretary?'
More of my conversation with Shropshire-based executive coach Sarah Clein. The first part can be found in Hello You 81: Getting Off the SAD List, and…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hello You 82: Shropshire's Music Heroes
Anyone who brings other people into an understanding and enjoyment of music is, to my mind, a hero.
And anyone who does that whilst teaching them to p…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hello You 81: Getting off the SAD list
Do you find it difficult, plodding on through the dark and cold of winter? Your mood plummets, and you struggle to cope with life? You sleep more, yo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hello You 80: Whistling In the New Year
Happy New Year!
This first Hello You of 2025 was recorded on New Year’s Day, on location at the Severn Valley Railway’s station at Bridgnorth. The rai…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hello You 79: A Wroxeter Soundscape
What do you call this strange interregnum between Christmas and New Year? It’s clearly a Thing, because we seek to name it, even if we can’t decide h…
1 year, 4 months ago
Hello You 78: Sewing Sisters and the Band of Brothers
Visits to two marvellous groups of wonderful people, in the run-up to Christmas.
Includes a knitted chicken, lager shandy, getting the right PVA glue,…
1 year, 4 months ago
Hello You 77: Win or Lose?
Can I talk to you for a minute?
An unscheduled, off-the-cuff mini-episode. Your comments and messages would - as always - be welcome.
Normal service wi…
1 year, 4 months ago
Hello You 76: 'How bad can it be?'
Lots of people leave Shropshire and then come back, either straight away or eventually. Patrick Lappin’s route back to the county of his birth took i…
1 year, 4 months ago