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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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31:39

Hello You 102: Rawdogging poetry with Lewis Wyn Davies

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/04/16

Continuing the bench motif …You meet really interesting people on benches. In this case, I met Shrewsbury poet Lewis Wyn Davies.This wasn’t an accidental or random meeting, though. A bench is pictured on the front cover of Lewis’s new collection of poems, State, in an illustration by Lewis’s creative and life partner Saffron Russell. You’ll hear why, and which particular bench that is, in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.‘I didn’t realise I was living in poverty’Lewis talks about his

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33:50

Hello You 101: Ludlow Market soundscape

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/04/14

The sounds of Ludlow’s Market Square, in vivid stereo!Hear this picture!Recently I went to Ludlow to record random conversations on a bench adjacent to the Market Square.I was heading for a specific bench … but when I got there, it was occupied by a couple and their dog. So I had a twenty-minute wait before I was able to start talking to people as planned.This was the perfect opportunity to record a soundscape. I’ve done a few of these on Hello You the Shropshire podcast before, I really like making

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36:52

Hello You 100: On a bench in Ludlow (again!)

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/04/11

The 100th episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast!Can you believe that? I can’t deny that I’m pretty damn proud to have made this milestone, especially considering I started Hello You eighteen months ago … by accident. Hey, these things happen. If you want to know how and why this all started, listen to the first episode? It’s quite short. And clearly I have no idea what I’m doing, I just feel I have to do it. I like stuff that’s made that way.If you’re new here, by the way: Welcome! I’m so glad

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28:07

Hello You 99: Cinnamon the capybara's big adventure!

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/04/09

Say hello to Cinnamon, the world’s best-known capybaraCinnamon sparked worldwide interest last autumn when she did a runner from her enclosure at Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World in Shropshire.The story of her little holiday has been turned into a delightful picture book by Shrewsbury author Tracey J Morgan and much-loved illustrator Hercule Van Wolfwinkle, creator of the famous Rubbish Pet Portraits.Tracey and Hercule took part in a reading of the book and a Q&A with fans at Hoo Zoo on Sunday, with the

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58:51

Hello You 98: Joy beyond the dance floor

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/04/04

Creating music for wellbeingRose and Gavin Lawson’s life journey has taken them from Leeds to mid-Wales, to France and Spain, leading to some years living on Ibiza.They’re now back in mid-Wales, just across the Shropshire border, and they’re doing some very interesting things indeed. ‘Electronic music is a healing modality’Did you get creative during lockdown? Lockdown - especially under Spain’s rigid rules - focused Rose and Gavin’s creativity even further. From that focus came the work they’re

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27:05

Hello You 97: 'You don't need to tell responsible...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/04/02

‘We’re friends out together’On Hello You the Shropshire podcast a few weeks back, I asked what you’d learned from a local Facebook group.I received loads of really interesting answers, including one from Paul Kalinauckas about what he’d learned from his own Facebook group.Intrigued, I met Paul to find out more. You can hear what happened on this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.Check out Paul’s Telford Coronation Walks Facebook group and the websites for the twenty-three Telford

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78:58

Hello You 96: 'Every time it was the last time ......

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/28

Content/trigger warnings: rape, sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, suicide, self-harm ‘As soon as you open the door, you’re in danger’At eighteen years old, Kate Elysia fell victim to Telford’s gang of sex abusers. But how? And what happened afterwards?‘They were telling me it was my fault’Kate’s now in her thirties. She’s back in Telford after many years away, working in mental health.‘I feel that I have recovered and that I’m doing very well considering what I’ve been through. I just hope

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31:59

Hello You 95: Jump!

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/26

Gary Nolan: singer, songwriter, squash player, teacher and now … children’s author, tooJUMP and JUMP2 are available to purchase online in paperback and ebook format. Both books are free if you have a Kindle Unlimited account, or you can download them for 99p and £2.99, respectively. The paperbacks retail at £12.99 each.Find out more at the website! Friday’s episodeKate Elysia is a survivor of Telford’s notorious grooming gang.On the next episode of Hello You the Shropshire Podcast, Kate tells her

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38:39

Hello You 94: Is Shrewsbury a Good Place?

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/21

‘Who’s looking at the bigger picture?’In recent years there’s been much discussion about what makes Shrewsbury a good place to live … and what could make it better.Lisa Richards has a fine eye for the details that make towns and cities attractive, comfortable and exciting. She’s an urban designer, a placemaker, working to make places thrive, not just survive. Lisa is also (like me) a long-time Shrewsbury resident. In the week that the Shrewsbury Moves festival takes place, I wanted to hear her

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44:08

Hello You 93: 'We've been talking about you ...'

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/19

This episode’s quite soundscapey, so if you can, please listen to it in stereo? Earbuds in, headphones on, play it in the car or stream at home if you have an actual hifi that can do it?Also, unlike most ‘bench’ episodes of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, it has a preamble at the front and a postamble on the end. This is because there’s some stuff that needs explaining. Stuff that is, tbh, my fault. But there’s also a challenge for you, and I say when I’ll be back on a bench - the right one, ffs -

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23:35

Hello You 92: 'We listen to people'

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/14

Everyone, surely, has heard of the Samaritans … but what exactly do they do? And what’s it like, being a Samaritans listening volunteer?As I’ve recently been asking for suggestions for benches where I can sit and record conversations for Hello You, Debbie from Telford Samaritans invited me to their Wellington HQ, to sit on a brand-new bench. The bench is a beautiful thing. It’s recently been hand-built and donated to Telford Samaritans by the people at Small Woods’ Green Wood Centre in

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38:26

Hello You 91: One full life, one violent death

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/12

Rich Uridge and I have some things in common.We both live in Shropshire. We’re both ex-BBC. And we’ve both lost our mothers … but in very different circumstances. You can hear Richard’s story in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, recorded in the garden of Jemima’s Kitchen café in Church Stretton.Find out more about Richard Uridge’s media training work and read his blog too. Thank you for becoming a member of the Hello You familyWhy not claim a chair at the Hello You kitchen table by

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51:21

Hello You 90: 'A kernel of truth: that's where the...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/07

Is that subtitle a good way of describing Hello You the Shropshire podcast? Or is it too corporate? Too polished? Too - let’s be honest here - wanky? Tell me: If you’re a new subscriber, a new member of the Hello You family: Hello! You’re very welcome around the Hello You virtual kitchen table. Pull up a chair, why don’t you?So many people have subscribed to Hello You the Shropshire podcast in the last week or so that it’s almost doubled the number of people who are receiving this email. I’m not

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43:03

Hello You 89: On a bench in The Square, Shrewsbury

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/03/05

The first thing I need to say is: Hello, lovely new members of the Hello You family!I don’t know quite what’s happened, but over the last 24 hours the subscriptions to Hello You the Shropshire podcast have absolutely taken off. If that’s what posting pictures of pancakes on Facebook does, then the crêpes will be hitting the ‘Gram every damn day (saw what I did there?).Seriously: Whether you’re a new subscriber or you’ve been following this for the year and a half I’ve been doing it, I’m bloody

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49:05

Hello You 88: Speed Dating, Slow Dancing

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/02/28

‘When you’re in person, the way someone laughs, the way they move, that can be really attractive’Pixie Greatorex wants Shropshire to find love. That’s why she set up Speed Dating Shropshire. Single people are ‘quite a forgotten community’, says Pixie, and older single people in particular. So what’s she doing about it? Find out in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, in which Pixie introduces me to the notion of ‘kitten-fishing’! Check out Speed Dating Shropshire’s events on the website

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41:11

Hello You 87: Exercise and mental health at...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/02/21

If, like me, you’ve ever sought help with your mental health, you’ve probably been told that exercise and physical activity can boost your mood and aid your recovery.The problem is, when your mental health’s not great, often the last thing you feel like doing is any exercise or physical activity.Jo Hazell-Watkins and Kevin Braddock learned how helpful fitness and strength training can be when people’s mental health isn’t great, from their own personal experiences. They also realised that people who

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42:22

Hello You 86: You've Just Got To Follow the Thing You...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/02/14

From teacher to actor, from Shropshire to Ireland and IndiaShropshire native Joanna Purslow spent twenty years as a primary school teacher in Shrewsbury. Then she decided to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a professional actor. Hear her story in this episode of Hello You.‘A lot of people in our society don’t feel like they’re respected or valued’Joanna’s taken a one-woman show to Edinburgh and to a remote area of India, where the action of the play takes place. She works with Hotbuckle

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42:09

Hello You 85: Paths, Power Cuts, Pantomimes

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/02/07

Shropshire is a welcoming place … and it’s also home to hundreds of Places of Welcome.Places of Welcome is a national network of more than six hundred local spaces. Each offers an unconditional welcome to local people to meet for few hours each week. They’re places where everyone can go for a friendly face, a cup of tea and a conversation if and when they need it. Places where all people can feel safe to connect, belong and get involved. The network is growing too. There are now more two hundred

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38:24

Hello You 84: Life is a Learning Curve

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/01/31

‘Anything that’s big and frightening, I’ll be there’Jacqueline Porteous left school as soon as she could, with no qualifications … but with an unshakable belief in herself, and in the power of believing that what you want and need can be yours.That’s taken her around the country, and back to her native Shropshire. It’s taken her from cleaning and factory work to the construction industry, driving huge vehicles, and onto Dragons’ Den.And in her mid-sixties, she’s not finished yet!Take a listen to

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33:59

Hello You 83: 'Are you a secretary?'

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/01/24

More of my conversation with Shropshire-based executive coach Sarah Clein. The first part can be found in Hello You 81: Getting Off the SAD List, and if you - like me - find the darker time of the year difficult to deal with, I hope you’ll check it out. Sarah helps, as she puts it, ‘knackered mid-life women in public service’ to have a better life, either in their current job or elsewhere. As you’ll hear, she brings a lot of related life experience to her work. She and I found quite a lot of common

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