The Planet Reigate Podcast

75: Why The Harlequin’s future is still not confirmed… and more

For Saturday 15th 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.

07:30 – We have the highlights of the council meeting which still didn’t give an airtight, copper-bottom, gold-plated, definitive, signed and sealed confirmation on money being spent on the refurb and rebuild of The Harlequin.

37:25 - Planet Reigate area news part 1.

46:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a petrol station saviour in Redhill

48:25 - Planet Reigate area news part 2.

1:00:00 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

1:04:30 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Wonham Mill.

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74: At Valentines, why you love living here … and more

For Saturday 8th 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.

06:00 - Planet Reigate area news part 1.

24:15 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, for those who gave kind words to a new driver

25:45 - Planet Reigate area news part 2.

30:40 - Planet Reigate area sport

32:00 – Our Valentine’s Day special. The reasons you have told us that you love living life around here.

47:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go this week

56:00 - Planet Reigate area travel news. Road disruption upcoming.

56:30 - Planet Reigate area weather. Looking back at the local stats for January.

58:30 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, golfers on Reigate Heath.

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73a: *Extra Episode - Harlequin '£10m decision' at RBBC council meeting 30.01.25

Funding has been earmarked for Redhill's Harlequin theatre which was shut in September 2023 due to unstable concrete in its building.

On Thursday evening 30 January 2025,, Reigate and Banstead Borough Council agreed to allocate up to £10m for the theatre and "cultural offerings" in the borough.

This is a full report on the meeting including clips from the discussion and background commentary.

To read the full 38-page ‘Harlequin Options Analysis and Next Steps’ report that the council was discussing, go to the link in our show notes: https://tinyurl.com/prp73Harlrpt

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73: The next ‘act’ in The Harlequin’s drama, local plant-based cooking courses… and more

For Saturday 1st 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.

10:22 - Planet Reigate area news part 1. Including the latest about the Harlequin - and the latest A&E, ambulance and cancer stats from the hospital.

30:45 - Planet Reigate area travel news. Road and train disruption this coming week.

35:00 – GUEST: Plant-based Robyn tells us how speedy, easy and budget-friendly eating more plant-rich meals can be. We joined her in a recent village hall session in Nutfield. https://www.plantbasedrobyn.co.uk/

49:15 - Planet Reigate area news part 2.

57:50 - Planet Reigate area sport

59:40 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go this week

1:02:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a local student on a 100 bus

1:03:25 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, from Brockham.

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72: Reigate’s boxing, horse-riding, wannabe stuntwoman and fitness expert… and more

For Saturday 25th January 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.

06:55 - Planet Reigate area news

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

21:25 – GUEST: Olivia Furner from movewitholivia.com, Reigate fitness expert. So if you have been a bit sluggish over the festive period but can’t quite seem to get your move-it mojo on, then do listen in. Plus, we will hear about Olivia’s life growing up and living around here, her other outdoor exploits and a couple of surprising revelations.

33:35 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week praise for those who helped a grieving man.

35:35 - The changes you say you want to see in Redhill.

41:15 – The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, spinning skateboard wheels.  

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71: The local board-gamers group, your ‘wants’ for Reigate High Street… and more

For Saturday 18th January 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.

07:30 - Planet Reigate area news - Part One

14:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week praise for the boss of The Belfry.

15:15 – GUEST: A new gaming group that’s been set up at Gatwick. So, if you were bitten by the bug over Christmas and New Year, playing dice, dealing cards, mixed up with strategy and skill and a bit of help from Lady Luck, listen our chat with Derek Cox and the gamers who we met up with recently.

31:25 – Priory Bark: we hear from a local dog-owner talk about their pet. This week: Princess tells us about Ellie her French Bulldog.

36:00 - Planet Reigate area news - Part Two

40:40 - The shops you say you want to see on on Reigate high street.

45:45 – The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week summer on Reigate Heath.  

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70: More on the Harlequin’s future… and more

For Saturday 11th January 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.

04:40 – The ‘best bits’ from the council meeting 9th January, with more harlequin discussion. We have taken the, err, more concrete bits from a 1hr 45m meeting and boiled it down to 23 minutes.

36:15 - Planet Reigate area news - Part One

50:10 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week a special thanks for Santa.

51:40 - Planet Reigate area news - Part Two

54:55 – Reigate Roulette. Random questions to a local resident about what they love about living here.

57:55 – The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week from Mercers Lake.

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The Story Of Bancroft Road Reigate

How many times have you driven into Reigate either from Redhill, or from down the Hill, and found yourself in the town’s one-way system, taking that awkward sharp left-hand turn off Church Street, past the town’s only multi-storey car park on the right-hand side, the library tucked away at the dog-leg bend, the Everyman cinema on the right and up to Bell Street..?

Have you ever looked at the building on the left-hand side, Pool House, and wondered how it got its name?

Maybe you knew that it was built on the site of the town’s swimming pool, that opposite it, the cinema sits on the site of another cinema, so grand it was called The Majestic, and that that building was almost side-to-side with the town’s first cinema, The Hippodrome.

This special episode of The Planet Reigate Podcast brings together features from Christmas and New Year shows of 2024 and 2025, all in one place. Together, hear the story of Reigate’s Bancroft Road.

• The love story at the heart of the development of both the Majestic Pool and Majestic Cinema.
• The rise and fall of both businesses and the people behind them
• How the road they were on got its name – and it’s not named after who you might think.

We discover the grave of the couple who made both ventures possible, and how their love endured, and go behind the scenes or rather underground, into what is left of the pool today.

The episode is made possible by the research of Sean Hawkins and by kind permission of Spencer Copping of WS Planning and Architecture, which is based in Pool House.

I invite you to listen to The Story Of Bancroft Road Reigate… on The Planet Reigate Podcast.

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69: The story of Bancroft Road, Reigate 4 - behind the scenes at the abandoned swimming pool

Saturday 4th January 2025

Now, our four-part mini-series over Christmas and New Year concludes, with what you might call a bonus edition. We have been given special access to part of Bancroft Road that is not normally open to the public. With grateful thanks to Spencer Copping of WS Planning and architecture, whose offices are in the appropriately named Pool House, listen as we go behind the scenes and underground as we record interviews in what was the actual pool.

Hear what is left on the site now, including the café. And hear our chat with local historian Sean Hawkins, whose research led to this mini-series. Hear us reflect on the lives and work of Harry and Emmy Bancroft, including some new information, as we stand on the road that bears their name. 

Part one was in episode 66 – We started the story with Harry Bancroft and Emmy meeting, marrying and running the Hippodrome cinema on Bell Street. You can hear it here: https://tinyurl.com/prp66bancroft1 (tap the link and then tap ‘play’).

Part two in episode 67 – told the story of the lido. We described where it was, what was there, the opening and the cost. https://tinyurl.com/prp67bancroft2

In episode 68 we ended the story, with the opening of the Majestic cinema, and the decline of both ventures; Emmy’s untimely death and then, that of Harry. And we discovered the couple’s grave in a nearby churchyard and paid our respects. https://tinyurl.com/prp68full

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Episode 68: The rise and fall of Reigate’s pool and picture house on Bancroft Road, and the legacy of the husband and wife who got them built.

For Saturday 28th December 2024

This is the third part of four in our Christmas/New Year mini-series on the history of Bancroft Road in Reigate.

Part one was in episode 66 – We started the story with Harry Bancroft and Emmy meeting, marrying and running the Hippodrome cinema on Bell Street. You can hear it here: https://tinyurl.com/prp66bancroft1 (tap the link and then tap ‘play’).

Part two in episode 67 – told the story of the lido. We described where it was, what was there, the opening and the cost.  https://tinyurl.com/prp67bancroft2

Now in episode 68 we conclude the actual story, with the opening of the Majestic cinema, and the decline of both ventures; Emmy’s untimely death and then, that of Harry. Join us as we discover the couple’s grave in a nearby churchyard and pay our respects.

Next week in episode 69, a special bonus edition of the mini-series. we have special limited access to the site of the pool. Listen as we go behind the scenes and underground as we record interviews in what was the actual pool. Hear what is left on the site now, including the café. And hear our chat with local historian Sean Hawkins, whose research led to this mini-series. Hear us reflect on the lives and work of Harry and Emmy Bancroft, including some new information, as we stand on the road that bears their name. 

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