The Sherborne Podcast

All the episodes of The Sherborne Podcast are still available.

Happy birthday to Abbey 104. Sherborne’s community radio station celebrates seven years on the air this month. The Sherborne Podcast meets the station’s chairman Taff Martin who tells us how the station started, his hopes for Abbey 104’s future and how the station has become a valuable asset for the town.

The Sherborne Abbey Festival is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year. The event attracts world class musicians as well as showcasing the musical talent thriving within the Sherborne community and schools in the town. The festival is the brainchild of one man, its artistic director John Baker.

New to The Sherborne Podcast? Here's a sample of episodes still available to download in full. Listen out for more voices and stories from Sherborne in new episodes coming soon in 2020.

Entrepreneur Peter de Savary has almost completed his transformation of The Eastbury Hotel into a chic, five-star boutique establishment. He joins TSP in a wide ranging conversation to start the New Year.

The charity running the Sherborne Food Bank is appealing for donations to help them meet the increasing need for the service. The food bank delivered nearly 1,400 food parcels last year and expects the number to have risen 20 per cent in 2019. Now they are getting ready for Christmas.

Say just three words to Sherborne's on-call fighters and they'll be able to pinpoint exactly where you are. Don't worry they're not tracking you. But you can use a clever app and the gps technology in your smartphone to tell the emergency services where to find you.

Sherborne Fire Station is manned by on-call firefighters who have other jobs or commitments but drop everything to respond to emergency calls. The firefighters talk about their role, the impact on their families and why they do it.

The stories so far...politics and a priest, a project for the future and a past tradition. It's been a varied first month for The Sherborne Podcast. All our episodes are still available. They've been downloaded hundreds of times since The Sherborne Podcast launched in October. Watch out for new episodes in the coming weeks featuring more people and stories in Sherborne.

The Green Party candidate for West Dorset, Dr Kelvin Clayton, tells The Sherborne Podcast that climate change is the number one issue at the general election not Brexit. He talks about the Green Party New Deal and its £100bn price tag.