In Focus Podcasts

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 laura.walker@scot.gov.uk...

<p>It’s 18 months since The Stables Theatre here in Hastings got its own Improv group and it’s going from strength to strength with a pool of 18 participants and regular monthly shows coming to The Stables’ Gwen Watford...

<p>Stuart Baillie was delighted when Terence Starr invited him to appear on the Business Buzz and Banter show on Ashford's Channel Radio. Terence turned the tables on Stuart as the niormal interviewer became the...

The story of Alexander Murray's short life is a fascinating one; raised as a Shepherd's boy in the Galloway Hills and with little formal education he taught himself not just to read but to read and understand foreign...

<p><br></p><p>A well stocked, well managed river brings a lot to a local community; it brings tourism, it provides an amazing learning resource and it can help create jobs and training oportunities.</p><p>Maintaining...

<p>The Quarrymen's Art Centre, opened in 2021, is described on it's Facebook profile as 'a wee venue at the heart of Creetown', it's all that and more. Brought back to life by a dedicated team of local people The...

<p>As a 20-year-old cub reporter in the early 1980s I was invited in to the 16th century Ayrshire castle that had been the base for many of the nation's Pre-Raphaelite artists who aimed to reform art by rejecting the...

<p>The first episode of a new season of People & Landmark podcasts. This time we're visiting Linlithgow Palace in central Scotland, home to Mary Queen of Scots and a significant royal residence for the...

Joe Bravaco is an American playwright whose work 'One Good Thing or are Ya Patrick Swayze' won an award for new writing from The Stables Theatre in Hastings. In this interview he discusses his career and his...

<p>Everyone knows about 9/11 not so many know that when the US closed its airspace, 38 planes carrying nearly 7,000 passengers from around the world were unexpectedly diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, nearly doubling...

<p>Stuart Baillie has been writing about the Seaview Project in St Leaonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, since 2019. Seaview is a local charity that works with those on the margins of our society and reaches out to offer help...

The Seaview Centre in Hatherley Road in St Leonards-on-Sea is a remarkable place. Stuart Baillie has been out with the early morning outreach team meeting those sleeping rough on the streets of Hastings and St Leonards...

<p>Homelessness and rough sleeping are big news when politicians decide to use the issues to make political capital. But behind the headlines are real people living on the margins of society. The Seaview Project in St...

<p>Too many young men are taking their own lives and too high a proportion of those are former military men who feel cut adrift from the life they have lived and loved. Darren Clark from Bexhill in East Sussex is doing...

Peter Mould is more than just a well known face around The Stables Theatre in Hastings, he has been taking pictures of the shows and the actors in them for getting on for a quarter of a century. The soon to be...