The Planet Reigate Podcast

84: Radio Redhill’s 50th birthday… and more

For Saturday 19th 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.

06:10 - Planet Reigate area news

13:45 – GUEST – The radio service that has been entertaining patients and staff at the East Surrey Hospital has marked its 50th anniversary this week. The first experimental broadcast took place on Christmas Day 1974 at the former Redhill General Hospital, with regular programmes starting the following year. I was invited along to be interviewed about the podcast as a guest on one of their anniversary shows, and also took the opportunity to interview Sian, Nick and Nigel about the radio station, as a guest on the podcast!

28:00 – The Hive Mind: Your suggestions for the best fish and chip shops locally

29:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

32:45 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a local ‘star in a car’.

36:00 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, lazing in the grass on a summer’s day at Earlswood Lakes.

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83: The aerodrome-based charity that’s nothing to do with planes, or buses… and more

For Saturday 12th 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.

05:20 - Planet Reigate area news

14:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

18:45 – GUEST – Us In A Bus Part 1: This week we tell you about the charity based at the aerodrome, but it’s got nothing to do with planes. Or buses! That’s despite where it is or what it’s called. ‘Us In A Bus’ – which celebrates a big anniversary this year - supports people who have complex communication needs. Though sometimes very subtle interaction, like blinking, their expert staff – called Interaction Practitioners - try and meet those who they support in their space , connecting and communicating with them and helping them express their feelings and choices.

28:30 – Priory Bark: canine conversations. This week, local woman Kim tells us about Bailey, her English Springer Spaniel

31:25 – GUEST – Us In A Bus Part 2

40:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the band of Redhillians who found a lost stuffed toy

45:55 – Planet Reigate Travel News

46:15 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, summer rainfall at Gatton Park

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82: Reigate’s peppermint farms (2/2)… and more

For Saturday 5th April 2025

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

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:00 - Planet Reigate area news

07:45 - Planet Reigate area sport

09:00 – Reigate Roulette. Local resident Emma tells us what they love most about living around here.

13:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the woman who gave a boy a boost in Morrisons

15:00 – Hive Minds: collective expert contributions. This week, the best local village or church hall in which to hold a ‘do’.

17:55 - 100 years on, Reigate’s forgotten industry. The second of two features on Reigate’s peppermint farms around Albert Road North: what was the company that produced the oil, who worked there, why did the business fail, and what is around now to mark its existence?

36:25 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

41:38 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, bells at Church of the Holy Family, Yorke Road, Reigate.

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81: 100 years on, Reigate’s forgotten industry (1/2)… and more

For Saturday 29th March 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.

09:45 - Reigate Roulette

16:55 - Planet Reigate area news

26:50 - 100 years on, Reigate’s forgotten industry. The first of two features on what was grown, harvested and produced around Albert Road North and became famous around the world – but is an industry now largely forgotten.

48:25 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

54:50 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week… a local band of bicycle builders

56:15 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Holmethorpe Lagoon – with chiffchaff, blackbird and great tit

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80: Reigate Hill plane crash 80th anniversary event… and more

For Saturday 22nd March 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.

06:30 - Planet Reigate area news

16:15 – Earlswood’s ‘ghost house’

19:15 - Reigate Hill plane crash 80th anniversary event. This week we report from a commemoration event on Reigate Hill last Wednesday. It marked the 80th anniversary of the loss of nine lives of US Air Force crew who died when their B17 plane crashed there on the afternoon of 19th March 1945. A poignant event in which we remembered not just that crew but the loss of all other air crew who died in the Surrey Hills during the Second World War. The gathering this week included readings from military veterans and a wreath laying at the site of the crash.

56:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

1:04:25 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise the woman in a Woodhatch nail bar who just ‘nailed it’

1:05:50 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, to Betchworth - and weekend canoeists on the River Mole.

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79: Rejuvenating Reigate and Redhill with the local skin expert… and more

For Saturday 15th March 2025

https://tinyurl.com/prp78

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

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:05 - Planet Reigate area news

25:50 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for mystery-man ‘John’ who walks in Priory Park

28:20 – Guest: Are you looking to rejuvenate your skin, or improve your complexion? Confused about microneedling or dermarolling? Whether it’s for anti-aging or post-acne scarring… this week’s guest maty be able to help. Kate Ingram lives in Leigh and is a Registered General Nurse with more than 30 years’ experience in the NHS, and a member of the British Association of Cosmetic Nurses. She can help you with the skin you’re living in, and also works with a local GP to run menopause care workshops.

38:20 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

45:20 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Redhill Common - sheltering under trees with the sound of blackbird, blue tit, great tit, wren, robin, dove, blackcap, wood pigeon.

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78a: *Extra Episode - 30-minute Soundscape

Each week on The Planet Reigate Podcast we end with our '60-second Soundscape'.

Now, uniquely, we have produced our first '30-minute Soundscape', half an hour of natural sounds from across the Planet Reigate area - birds, ducks, insects and the occasional dog and light plane. No voices. No surprises. Nothing loud.

It's 30 minutes of natural sounds from where we live, to relax to, meditate to, to listen to while working, driving or revising. Or just when your head is too busy and you don't want to listen to music, phone-ins or DJ banter.

Just set the '30-minute Soundscape' to run, adjust the volume, and bring a little bit of Surrey direct into your ears.

Courtesy of The Planet Reigate Podcast .

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78: Redhill’s new community singing and music centre… and more

For Saturday 8th March 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.

04:11 - Planet Reigate area news

26:45 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a wheely-great man at Earlswood Lakes.

28:30 – Guest:

A centre for all-things music is opening in Redhill. The Franklin Music Centre is at St. John’s church, and whether you’re an experienced musician or someone who simply loves music, you can go along and connect, collaborate, and explore your creativity with others in the community. There’ll be things like jam sessions and workshops, showcases and concerts, for all skill levels and musical interests.  I’ve been along to talk to Nikki Franklin to find out more.

34:30 – Priory Bark: canine conversations. This week, local man Joe tells us Toby his whippet.

37:45 – Guest: Nikki Franklin, Part 2.

47:15- The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

54:15 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, the warm-up at the community choir at St John’s in Redhill.

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77: The Reigate kids’ group whose members come from across the south-east… and more

For Saturday 1st March 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.

05:40 - Planet Reigate area news

14:40 – Reigate Roulette. 77: The Reigate kids’ group whose members come from across the south-east… and more

18:30 – Guest: This week hear from Helen and Vicky who met 20 years ago when they were both in East Surrey Hospital maternity ward.  

They are not only great friends but also business partners, because soon after they left hospital with their babies, they found they had to struggle against the system to ensure their children had the same opportunities as other kids.

And that struggle became a charity, PSDS, which is based at their new HQ in Reigate, and helps hundreds of families across the south-east.

31:40- The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

36:25 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the local night-bus hero

38:00 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week from Earlswood Lakes.

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76: Redhill’s new new-music nights… and more

For Saturday 22nd February 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

03:10 - Planet Reigate area news 

15:20 – “Hello Redhill!” The onstage greeting at the first new music night event in the town last weekend.

18:40 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

22:25 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

27:50 – GUEST: Redstart is the new local group formed by volunteers to bring original live music and performing arts to the area. Steve Trigg is one of the people behind it, and we spoke to him at their first event, held in an unusual location…

39:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who found cash scattered on Reigate high street

41:20 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Nutfield - Park Wood - robin, blackbird and a greater spotted woodpecker

#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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