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Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins

I’m trying to give you something a little different. Hello You is about stuff, and things. People, and stories. Shrewsbury, and Shropshire. Mental health and well-being. History and heritage. Arts, culture and music. Faith, belief and the complexities of life. I’m a good listener. It’s what I do. And for Hello You, I’m listening to (and talking with) fascinating people, mostly but not always from Shropshire, so that you can hear what they have to say. It"s public-service local journalism that

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53:26

Hello You 42: Sunshine, Showers, Spaniels

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/28

The sounds of a summer day in Shropshire - bees in the sunshine, the odd showers or two, walkers and quite a few excited dogs, plus a light aircraft buzzing lazily across the sky.I recorded this while sitting on a bench on Lyth Hill. I’ll be honest, this wasn’t what I set out to produce, but as you’ll hear, I had something of a moment, and things changed. I suppose that’s what happens when you sit and just absorb the countryside around and before you for an hour.Some people find these stereo

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40:52

Hello You 41: Magical Ideas in Mushroom Minds

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/26

Where might you find: * a Faerie Trail* a faerie to tell you about it* a House on Crutches* the Happy Bap* a hamster on a stick (pictured below)* a secret garden (also pictured further below, with its creator Whitty)* the British Champion Women’s Scyther* Derek (98) and Christmas lights (eventually)* the Badger Cavalry* and an astonishing number of former pubs?Answer: In Bishop’s Castle, south Shropshire. Listen to this episode of Hello You to hear more about them all! That’s where I sat on a bench

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32:35

Hello You 40: Standing Sentinel Over Shrewsbury's...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/24

Shrewsbury is rich in heritage … but do we think beyond the Castle and the Flaxmill, the Abbey, and the surviving Tudor and medieval buildings?A few weeks ago, the Sentinel Works on Whitchurch Road in Shrewsbury closed. It’s currently up for let. It’s a very familiar building in north Shrewsbury, but is it heritage? What about the history of the place, and the stories of the people who worked there and lived nearby?Dr Paul Belford is an archaeologist and heritage consultant. I met him outside the

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15:43

Hello You 39: A Sunny Shropshire Summer Soundscape

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/21

‘I just love the soundscapes. I spend a lot of time working from home and the job can get, well you know, quite rough at times. The sounds help give a different perspective as though rather than in four walls I am out in the country ... yes even with the kids and the dogs and whatever. Really easy and soothing.’Listener Neil loves the ‘soundscape’ episodes of Hello YouAnd he’s not alone. Every time I publish an episode with even a brief soundscape in it, I get appreciative messages like Neil’s.I’d

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37:45

Hello You 38: Mental Health Allies

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/19

Thanks for being there; welcome to the Hello You family.It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. Or Mental Health Week, or Mental Health Awareness Month, or something … It’s all a bit confusing, but anyway, we’re all being encouraged to think about, talk about and be more aware of mental health.Which is a good thing. It’s one of the reasons I started this podcast, after all. (I frightened myself during a bad mental-health moment one Sunday morning. Want to hear what happened? Check out Hello You, episode

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47:35

Hello You 37: In Darwin's Dining Room

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/13

It’s always exciting to be allowed into somewhere well-known, but that comparatively few people have visited.So I was thrilled - and a little surprised - to find myself in the dining room of Darwin House, formerly known as the Mount House, which is the birthplace of Charles Darwin.But it was also a family home, under the gaze of materfamilias Susannah Darwin.How much do you know about Susannah Darwin? She was a remarkable woman in her own right … and like so many other remarkable women through

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51:59

Hello You 36: Jade, John & Jason, on a bench in...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/07

Content warning: suicideGet your earbuds in, headphones on or Bluetooth speaker fired up, and join me on a bench in the Dingle, in Shrewsbury’s Quarry (Park), where I recorded some conversations, a soundscape, and an appeal for help, on a sunny Bank Holiday Monday afternoon.Topics covered in this episode:* mental health* coping with grief* the joy of a skilled craft* men’s mental health* ADHD* PSA tests* where feels like home?* cats on leads* I need your help to find someone!Who did I meet on the

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32:52

Hello You 35: Happiness Katie

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/05

We’re all searching for happiness, each of us trying different routes to scale that mountain.Katie Millard is The Happiness Coach. But can people be coached to be happy? Hear her answer in this episode of Hello You.‘People who are hurt, will hurt other people’You can also find out more about Katie’s work in Shropshire’s schools, giving children and young people the tools to cope with the complexities of life (which are what this podcast is all about, in essence). What about working with adult

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62:32

Hello You 34: "You make your own family, don't you?"

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/01

We’ve mentioned before on Hello You, how physical health and mental health overlap. One can help make the other better, or worse. A change in one may well bring about change in the other.Author (among many other things) Tracey Morgan knows all about this, from personal lived experience. She tells her story in this episode, touching on a range of topics including:* endometriosis* depression* hysteroscopy* women feeling dismissed or not taken seriously by doctors* dealing (or trying to) with not being

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59:48

Hello You 33: Signs of Kindness

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/04/24

The Bench random recording session yesterday afternoon absolutely flew!I sat on a bench at the top of Wyle Cop, in Shrewsbury, where I met some amazing people and heard some remarkable stories. You want to hear them too? Click on the audio … then share it with your friends, family and colleagues, whether they’re in Shrewsbury or anywhere in the world. There’s stuff in this episode that people everywhere need to hear. Such as:* Bohemian Belle Vue, as seen through the eyes of a Miami-born daughter of

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22:01

Hello You 32: New subscribers, news avoidance

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/04/21

Always remember, on radio or any other type of audio, there’s always someone who’s hearing you for the first time.I forgot that, so there’s a verbal welcome to both new subscribers and casual listeners at the start of this episode.Want to be a new subscriber? Click here: Want to be a lovely person? Share this episode with people:… or introduce them to the Hello You family (I talk about this in the episode, it’s a Nice Thing):BenchI’ll be sitting on a bench on Tuesday lunchtime, recording

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35:19

Hello You 31: Saturday Soundscape

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/04/15

First off: huge welcome to all the new subscribers! I’m thrilled you’ve joined the Hello You family. (If you subscribed after my last newsletter, which was all photographs, then this might seem a bit odd, but buckle up and go with it? It’ll be worth it, I promise.) I hope you enjoy what I do - audio, podcasts, photography, trying the make the world a better place - and I really hope you’ll share it with your friends, family, colleagues, members of your WhatsApp chat, others in your faith community,

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36:31

Hello You 30: Mumma's Emporium

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/04/07

A conversation with Leanne Southey from Proud To Be Me, at the organisation’s new venture, Mumma’s Emporium - a café and antiques shop on Shrewsbury's Pride Hill in Shropshire.What’s Hello You about? To quote The Captain: ‘people, life, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, social and community events, mental health and pondering the complexities of life’.I’d love to know what you think of Hello You. Message me, or leave a comment?And if you like it, share it with your friends?More Hello You coming soon. And a

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39:18

Hello You 29: Art, memory, music and mental health

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/04/02

This afternoon, I did Bench (that’s how I’m referring to it now!) in the sunshine at Shrewsbury Castle, home to the Soldiers of Shropshire Museum. Hit play to hear what happened, and who I met.Appearing or mentioned in this episode:Artist Lee Lewis: Twitter, Instagram, YouTubeCatch her exhibition at the Gateway, Chester Street, Shrewsbury from April 12th.Music promoter Chris Taylor of SY Gigs: Instagram, Twitter, FacebookNext concert: Audrey Carmen & Roberto Bifferini, Shrewsbury Unitarian Church,

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52:04

Hello You 28: Margaret's Monocle

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/03/30

Hello, chums.Thank you for your patience, and sorry it’s been a long wait between episodes of Hello You. I explain why in the first part of this episode.Most of this was recorded on location at the Church of the Holy Spirit, on Meadow Farm Drive, Harlescott in Shrewsbury. They have a ‘hub’ event every Wednesday morning, which includes a food share from Shrewsbury Food Hub, A Place of Welcome, and an act of worship. The vicar, Rev Lisa Knight, suggested it would be a good place for me to ‘bench’, and

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16:46

Hello You 27: Two Ton of Old Fish Heads

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/03/19

Includes:* Ancestry* family history* East London* Essex* toilets* eating winkles with a pin* mental health* overwhelmed* exhaustion* covid* symptom diagram* ‘Georgia Satellites’ by Georgia Satellites* polyps* counselling* benches* taking care of one another Get full access to Hello You - Jim Hawkins’s Substack at jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe

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34:25

Hello You 26: Kath 2.0 - Sneaking Up on Bees

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/03/10

Imagine this: You don’t feel so good one morning, so you call the GP. The doctor calls you back, you step away from your desk to take the call, and then …Kath Fackrell shares her story of a day when everything changed, and how - with support, patience and determination - she’s becoming Kath 2.0.Find about more about #fnd at FND Hope UK.It’s a real privilege to share people’s stories and experiences, thoughts and points of view with you. Thank you for being there.Why not invite your friends to join

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10:05

Hello You 25: Never the Same River

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/03/07

The River Severn flows through our lives in Shrewsbury, like it does through the town.Is it flooded? Is it safe enough? Are we making the most of it? Could it be suitable for swimming? Why the hell is there sewage and effluent in it?So, there’s lots of noise about the river. Maybe we should quieten ourselves for a while, and instead take a listen to the river itself. Hence, this episode of #HelloYou.Coming at the weekend (or whenever my voice is in a fit state to record the intro and outro for it

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31:06

Hello You 24: On a bench in Castlefields

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/03/04

I’ve been to sit on another bench, to see what happens.Last Tuesday, I was at the junction of New Park Road and John Street, in the Castlefields area of Shrewsbury.There’s a memorial on the bench, but I know nothing of the story behind it. Can you fill in any details? I read the inscription during the podcast.It’s quite a busy location for passing traffic, so there’s a brief soundscape which is mostly cars and buses going past from left to right, or vice versa. It’s in super-vivid stereo, like all

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29:04

Hello You 23: I'm an Ewok. No, I'm #AWOC

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/02/26

I thought I’d figured out all the different ways I could describe myself, but then I came across a new one: AWOC - Ageing Without Children.It was thanks to a tweet from Denise Jackson, from Oakengates. She’s part of the active AWOC community, and she wonders if other people in similar circumstances would be interested in forming a Shropshire or Telford local group.Denise explains more and tells her story in this podcast. She mentions quite a few different organisations and points of contact; here

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