Bromley Buzz

Bromley Buzz

By Darren WealeSociety & Culture
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Bromley Buzz episodes

  • Episode 310: Bromley Business Show 2026
    On 30th September 2026, Darren Weale took the Bromley Buzz podcast and In Tune PR on the road to the Bromley Business Show at Oakley House, with a stand and microphone to hand.
     
    Previewed in episode 289, this debut event did an excellent job or bringing together a range of Bromley's business community, but also charities, and businesses from further afield.
     
    Here Darren shares some thoughts recorded at the event and interviews from the day with Anna Young of Bells Accountants; Sam Ma of Design Anthropology; Mas from the Shampan Restaurant Group; Jackie Groundsell from 1230 The Women's Company; Alice Morgan of the Big Cat Sanctuary; and Lauretta Wright of Life In magazines, the ABBBAS and Luna Creative Media. The last word goes to organiser Nick Bryant. 
     

    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.

    16 min
  • Episode 309: The Growing Network Revisited
    Darren Weale speaks from the Growing Network's latest Saturday session at St Andrews Church in Orpington. He describes what people can expect to see, pick up, and experience - all free of charge. Darren then talks to Mary, an organiser who helped to create the Orpington branch of this remarkable organisation in Bromley. 
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    9 min
  • Episode 308: Churchill Theatre Studio - where people come alive!
    Darren Weale talks with playwright and Director Luke Reid, whose company, Wilting Leaves Theatre performed Luke's play Leave Me Hanging at the Studio in the Churchill Theatre recently. Here Luke, also the Administrator at the Churchill Theatre, talks about the Studio and other spaces and activities at the theatre. Luke's interview about his show is here.
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    21 min
  • Episode 307: West Kent Masons help the Greener Cleaner Hub
    Darren Weale talks with members of the West Kent Masons following their donation of £46,000 to support the work of Bromley's Greener Cleaner Hub and Repair Cafe's.
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    28 min
  • Episode 306: Songs amid sadness - Dying Well Matters 27 October 2026
    Darren Weale talks with frequent Bromley Buzz Co-Presenter Zeenat Noorani, in her role as Director of Let's Talk Better CiC, and Nikki Fishman, of the Bromley Dementia Friendly Community. The two are combining to deliver an event on 27th October, Dying Well Matters. Tickets (free) here.
     
    This is the last, previously unreleased part of a conversation that formed episode 304 of the Bromley Buzz podcast. The conversation forms a poignant connection of songs and humour to death and to dying well, and is thus released as its own episode.
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    5 min
  • Episode 305: Luke Reid, writer of Leave Me Hanging - Churchill Theatre 5th September
    Darren Weale talks with playwright and Director Luke Reid, whose play Leave Me Hanging is in the Studio at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley for two performances on 5th September. Luke talks about the play, the two-person cast, and his company, Wilting Leaves Theatre. Tickets here.
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    12 min
  • Episode 304: Dying Well Matters - event 27th October 2026
    Darren Weale talks with frequent Bromley Buzz Co-Presenter Zeenat Noorani, in her role as Director of Let's Talk Better CiC, and Nikki Fishman, of the Bromley Dementia Friendly Community. The two are combining to deliver an event on 27th October, Dying Well Matters. Tickets (free) here.
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    18 min
  • Episode 303: Stars of English Youth Ballet from Giselle at Churchill Theatre Bromley
    Darren Weale talks with Olivia Trevelyan-Richards and Joshua Webb who play Giselle and Albert in one of two casts presenting the ballet Giselle for the English Youth Ballet at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley on 28th and 29th August. Two casts, as the pair explain, due to the physical and emotional demands of the intense, dramatic and beautiful production, which has a matinee and evening performance on both days. Tickets here.
     
    Olivia and Joshua touch upon their careers to date - from playing wood nymph to Giselle for Olivia, and with years performing in the US for Joshua, and the onstage buzz and energy that they both experience in Giselle. They also describe the special experience of performing and coaching about 100 children over 10 days for each venue. This 'quite rare and special' process takes the production to 7 UK venues and therefore involves over 700 children a year. This clearly means a lot to Olivia and Joshua, and to those who have previously stepped in their ballet shoes for English Youth Theatre.. 
     
    We interviewed the Founder and Director of English Youth Ballet, Janet Lewis MBE, in episode 60 of the Bromley Buzz podcast. You can listen to that here. 
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    12 min
  • Episode 302: Joy and music at the Bromley Inclusivity Festival 2026
    Darren Weale talks with people at the Inclusivity Festival in Beckenham on 16th August 2026 run by local charity Candi. 
     

    Starting with the Mayor Of Bromley Cllr Christine Harris (including her taste in music), the interviews continue with Faye, Andy and Rhiannon from Candi, and onto Millie Knight of the Friends of Cator Park and Alexandra Recreation Ground, and the Schnauzerfest charity. We close with festival-goer Saleem from Greenwich.


    Background music from the stage includes Fvoxy. 

     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.
    14 min
  • Episode 301: Welcoming the Bromley Pride Community
    Darren Weale talks with Ludwig, the Founder of Bromley's new Bromley Pride Community, which can be found on Instagram and Facebook. The community has started running face to face events for LGBTQ+ people and allies in Bromley.
     
    Apologies for the occasional sound problem on what was a remote Zoom recording.
     
    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz.
     
    You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and London Biggin Hill Airport.

     

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    8 min

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