The Planet Reigate Podcast

94: Redhill’s community taxi company with a difference… and more

For Saturday 28th June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:25 - Planet Reigate area news

16:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who helped the mum of the bride

18:25 – GUEST: there are several cab companies around the area but today, we’re talking with Ali who runs one out of Redhill that is a little bit different. You see you can’t actually book the taxis yourself...

33:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go.

44:05 – Reigate Roulette. Local resident, Pippa, tells us what she loves most about living around here

50:20 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #7

54:45 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, dawn, in Brockham.

#Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale

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93: Reigate & Banstead ‘abolished’: what it means for you in our full explainer… and more

For Saturday 21st June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:35 - Planet Reigate area news

11:50 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #8

14:50 – GUEST: As you may know, R&BBC is being abolished, along with all the other local councils in Surrey and Surrey County Council itself. This week we bring you what you need to know about what is happening, why, and how it will affect you. Our sit-down chat is with Richard Biggs, the Leader of Reigate & Banstead Borough Council. 1/3

29:50 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

41:20 – Guest: Local Government Reorganisation 2/3

57:15 – Reigate Roulette. Local resident, Penny, tells us what she loves most about living around here

1:03:05 – Guest: Local Government Reorganisation 3/3

1:19:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the postman turned tow-man

1:20:00 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, from Reigate’s Priory Park woods on a February evening

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92: The Reigate Summer Festival preview… and more

For Saturday 14th June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

15:30 - Planet Reigate area news

39:25 - Planet Reigate area sports news

44:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

51:10 – GUEST: Tim from next weekend’s Reigate Summer Festival, a celebration of the town's creativity, a weekend of free entertainment for the local community and beyond. All sorts of arts are being celebrated – live music, poetry and prose, dance, cinema and fashion… and much, much more.

1:03:30 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #9

1:05:50 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the person who was key to Kirsty having a good day

1:06:55 – 26:30 – Reigate Roulette. Local resident, Dan, tells us what they love most about living around here

1:07:55 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, from Guzzle Copse at Betchworth.

#Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale

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91: The local secure dog-field, with toys, obstacles and Instagrammable features… and more

For Saturday 7th June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:35 - Planet Reigate area news

26:50 - Planet Reigate area sports news

34:00 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

39:40 – Workshops at this month’s Reigate Summer Festival

43:50 – GUESTS: It’s a dog’s life! This week we take a tour around a local dog-field with Sarah and Kyra to see their toys, obstacles and Instagrammable posing features.

1:03:00 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #10

1:04:40 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the honest man in Morrisons.

1:06:00 – Priory Bark: canine conversations. This week, local woman Debbie tells us about her French bulldog Hugo.

1:07:55 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, from St Michaël’s churchyard in Betchworth.

#Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale

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90: Log-on to the local IT consultancy firm protecting you from hacks and attacks on PCs and Macs… and more

For Saturday 31st May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode

02:45 - Planet Reigate area news

18:00 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

26:30 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

34:00 – GUESTS: This week hear from local independent IT expert Max Cooper.

41:45 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a mystery bus fare benefactor.

43:02 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, from Priory Park.

#Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale

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89: The local ‘holiday hot-shot’ with insider tips for your next getaway… and more

For Saturday 24th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:50 - Planet Reigate area news

17:05 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

25:40 – GUESTS: This week hear from local independent travel advisor Sally Bosman.

42:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for comforting strangers at Sainsburys.

43:25 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Earlswood Lakes and mallards, coots and gulls

#Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale

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88: The ‘guerilla gardeners’ behind a wildflower makeover of a local roundabout… and more

For Saturday 17th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:55 - Planet Reigate area news and weather

17:20 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

29:00 – GUESTS: This week hear from some of the residents who have taken over the management of… their local roundabout!

People living in Horley have raised money and raised their garden spades, to transform a large drab, overgrown and unloved piece of land, into a wildlife haven, full of colour and teeming with life.

We went down to a recent plating project to catch up with some of the guerrilla gardeners and hear of their motivation and success – and what it will look like as spring turns to summer.

44:00 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

47:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who gave ‘help on the Hill’.

49:00 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Mill Hill Lane in Brockham.  

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87: Reigate Dambuster hero and the local composer of the most-famous VE Day march that you *do* know… and more

For Saturday 10th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode

05:15 - Planet Reigate area news

13:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

23:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who rushed to help in Redhill

28:10 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

32:10 – The story of Reigate’s very own Dambuster hero, Michael Fuller, who went from Post Office phone engineer to a member of the valued 617 Squadron and whose mission was turned into a war movie. Who he was, the life he led, and how he died a hero on foreign soil.

And we pay a special tribute to a Reigate musician Frederick Ricketts – who died 80 years ago this coming week in 1945, and who composed many of the marches that you will have heard in this week’s VE Day commemorations. He was also the man behind perhaps the most famous war-time march ever and whose tune you know so well today.

47:10 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, the station at Earlswood

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86: More local sporting heroes (2/2)… and more

For Saturday 3rd May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:25 - Planet Reigate area news and travel

30:50 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

37:50 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

42:20 – GUESTS – Hear from more of the winners of the recent Reigate & Banstead Sports awards. The Planet Reigate Podcast was again, the only media in attendance to speak with the winners and some of the runners up of 11 different categories. Other winners were featured in last week’s show.

58:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a sympathetic stranger.  

58:50 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, St Bartholemew's churchyard, Leigh

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85: Our local sporting heroes (1/2)… and more

For Saturday 26th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:00 - Planet Reigate area news, travel and weather

22:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the mystery wallet-woman at The Belfry. 

23:40 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

32:30 – GUESTS – This week we hear from some of the winners of the recent Reigate & Banstead Sports awards. Held earlier this month at the Reigate Manor Hotel, The Planet Reigate Podcast was again, the only media in attendance to speak with the winners and some of the runners up of 11 different categories.

49:40 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here. This week, Matt from Redhill.

52:05 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Betchworth, near Snowerhill Farm, with robin, wren and goldfinch

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