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Welcome to The Travelling Word, a poetry podcast with Jane Midwinter and Stuart Baillie, for a little poetry de-snobbing, as they put aside the idea that you need to be an expert to enjoy a poem.

From the puzzling to the powerful, they’ll be exploring what poetry has to offer. Expect poems, poets and conversations from near and far, with a few guests joining them along the way.

Their travelling home is Jane’s campervan, Misty Myvanway! And for their first adventure, they head to Fairlight on the East Sussex coast, a place close to Jane’s heart, to explore the theme of journeys through Elizabeth Bishop’s wonderful poem, The Moose.

Jane runs poetry workshops in Hastings and thereabouts. Visit her website:

https://www.midwinterpoetry.co.uk/ or instagram page: @jane_midwinter, for more information and poetry prompts.

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It's December 17th, 1979. Margaret Thatcher is visiting Washington D.C. While preparing for her first speech at the White House, she invites a guest for drinks.The guest is John Lennon. Thatcher has a deal for him... imagine the party!

You can see this fascinating, award winning play by Ben Randall at Studio 27, The White Rock Theatre, Hastings, on November 26th.

Book your tickets through the White Rock box office

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Hear the full interview here

https://shows.acast.com/660bd076daf1df0017d1e0b1/6705493bdb85d8586915be2c

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There was great excitement among her family and friends back in 1990 when Eleanor Third, known to everyone as Tee, was to be featured on the Be My Guest slot on Radio Solway and interviewed by Rita May.

Tee’s great-niece Shona Todd (née McGregor) has treasured the recording of that interview over the years and when she let some people hear it recently it made her realise how fondly remembered her great-aunt was - you can listen to thre interview by clicking the link above.

It’s a fascinating conversation and gives you an insight in to the life of a very special woman who, as a teacher in Wigtownshire for more than 20 years, is, even now - more than 20 years after her death - remembered fondly by those who knew her.

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Neither Stuart nor Richard has yet successfully completed a novel of their own but they are still determined that one day they will follow in the footsteps of Stuart’s dad - Richard’s grandad - Peter.

Peter had his novels published in the 1950s alongside countless short stories in the science fiction genre.

For the time being Stuart and Richard will just chat about other people’s work and in this edition they focus on Tony Parsons’ Man and Boy but also dip in to the second and third books in what they term the Harry Silver Trilogy; Man and Wife and Men from the Boys.

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In this month's podcast Richard and Stuart take a look at Matt Haig's new book, The Midnight Train. They both loved his previous novel, The Midnight Library, so can this new work live up to their expectations?

Also available on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@TheFrustratedAuthors

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The history of Hastings Pier is a chequered one. But no one could have anticipated the mess that it would become when it was triumphantly reopened a decade ago after a £14m rebuild following a devastating fire in October 2010. Today, at the height of summer it is devoid of visitors and only three businesses operate on the pier - it wasn't mean to be like this.

There is also a video version of this podcast available by following this link

https://youtu.be/PZq5MARC0lw?si=xNErNZMEmnZhVnZK

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Here are the important addresses and remember you have to have your submission in by 5pm on June 23rd and make sure you attend the community meeting in the McMillan Hall on June 30th.

Email

[email protected]

quoting WIN-170-2009 Glenvernoch community hearing submission, to speak

Or email

[email protected]

if you want HOOH to submit and have read out on your behalf, or you just want to let us know what has been submitted.

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