Welcome to the award-winning Hello You the Shropshire podcast!

I was thrilled and very surprised to be recognised in Shrewsbury’s Mayor’s Awards for Hello You the Shropshire podcast. I’ll now be using the phrase ‘award-winning’ as often and as gratuitously as you’d expect.

I picked up an award in the ‘Courtesy’ category, which is basically the ‘Vibe’ category. It recognises people whose work, volunteering or passion makes Shrewsbury a cool, exciting, supportive and good place to live. I’ll take that, thank you!

Huge congratulations to the other award winners too! There’s a full list on Shrewsbury Town Council’s Facebook. The Gold Award in the ‘Courtesy’ category went to Shrewsbury Street Pastors, and the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Maggie Love, Shrewsbury’s queen of theatre, dance and spectacle who set up the Shrewsbury Ambassadors scheme among so much else.

Maggie’s next to me in this picture, along with Steve Jones from the Street Pastors.

So, about the podcast …

First off, apologies for no Hello You appearing on Wednesday. You know sometimes you just can’t? Well, I just couldn’t. Sorry.

But you might be here to find out more about Hello You. Well, here’s the deal:

You won’t find this anywhere else. Intelligent, informed, progressive and sometimes quirky conversation for and about Shropshire, enjoyed around the world. Compassionate storytelling, trying to make the world a better place.

About stuff, and things: mental health and wellbeing, history and heritage, faith and belief, work, play and the complexities of life … all told through people’s authentic stories. Is this what you’re looking for? An alternative to news, arguments, stress and negativity?

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And for this episode: On a bench in the Dingle

On Tuesday afternoon I took myself off to a bench in the Dingle, in Shrewsbury’s Quarry (Park). It was a particular bench, suggested by Denise on BlueSky who said she thought it has the best view of any in the county. But was it a prime spot for talking to people? It was certainly a good location for watching them …

You can hear what happened in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.

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Meanwhile, to help you visualise where I was on Tuesday afternoon …

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