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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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41:21

Hello You 82: Shropshire's Music Heroes

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/01/17

Anyone who brings other people into an understanding and enjoyment of music is, to my mind, a hero.And anyone who does that whilst teaching them to play an instrument is a superhero.So Gayle chose the right name for her organisation: Shropshire’s Music Heroes.In this episode of my Shropshire podcast Hello You, recorded in their Shrewsbury base, Gayle tells me how Music Heroes came to be, and the surprising career change that led to it.Find out more about Music Heroes at their website and on Facebook

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49:52

Hello You 81: Getting off the SAD list

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/01/10

Do you find it difficult, plodding on through the dark and cold of winter? Your mood plummets, and you struggle to cope with life? You sleep more, you eat more, and you do less, particularly of the things you usually enjoy?You’re not alone. This is Seasonal Affective Disorder, and it clobbers a lot of us, pretty much from Halloween through until the start of spring.‘Where’s the joy? Find the glimmers’Shropshire-based executive coach Sarah Clein posted a list of the ways she copes with her SAD, on

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38:56

Hello You 80: Whistling In the New Year

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2025/01/03

Happy New Year!This first Hello You of 2025 was recorded on New Year’s Day, on location at the Severn Valley Railway’s station at Bridgnorth. The railway was taking part in the opening celebrations of Railway 200, a year of events marking the bicentenary of modern rail transport.There’s a moment in this episode that’ll properly wake you up!Also, there’s some personal news which I share with you over a paper cup of PG Tips in the railway station’s refreshment room. It just felt like a good moment

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28:07

Hello You 79: A Wroxeter Soundscape

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/12/27

What do you call this strange interregnum between Christmas and New Year? It’s clearly a Thing, because we seek to name it, even if we can’t decide how to spend the time. The artist Amelia Clark has termed it #Merryneum, which I think is brilliant (as is her work; find her art, in memory of her mother and incorporating musical scores, here and her ‘naughty-but-niche’ cards and gifts here).I’ve gone with ‘Betwixtmas’, which sounds like a festival that was quietly dropped from the ecclesiastical

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70:58

Hello You 78: Sewing Sisters and the Band of Brothers

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/12/20

Visits to two marvellous groups of wonderful people, in the run-up to Christmas.Includes a knitted chicken, lager shandy, getting the right PVA glue, Mouldy Old Dough, a half-finished Freddie Mercury and plenty of Jingle Bells.Meet the Castlefields Yarn Bombing Crew… and the Telford Men’s Breakfast Club run by Age UK Shropshire Telford & Wrekin.I’ve got lots more amazing people for you to meet on Hello You in 2025! And I’d like your suggestions for places I can go to record conversations or just the

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13:34

Hello You 77: Win or Lose?

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/12/18

Can I talk to you for a minute?An unscheduled, off-the-cuff mini-episode. Your comments and messages would - as always - be welcome.Normal service will resume on Friday with two groups of really lovely people, recorded in Shrewsbury and Telford. I really want you to meet them, so watch out for Hello You 78? It’ll be more cheery than this, promise. Subscribe to make sure you get the good stuff I’ve prepared for you over Christmas and New Year? Get full access to Hello You - Jim Hawkins’s Substack at

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45:42

Hello You 76: 'How bad can it be?'

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/12/13

Lots of people leave Shropshire and then come back, either straight away or eventually. Patrick Lappin’s route back to the county of his birth took in Edinburgh, Norwich and the stand-up circuit in London … but then, despite being afraid of flying and not a natural-born traveller, he found himself living in Mexico, Albania, Bulgaria, and for a truly terrifying few days, Grenada.Enjoy the stories of a (very) Englishman abroad in this episode of Hello You.Crucial life lesson within: ‘Embrace being

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41:23

Hello You 75: Mummy Wine Culture

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/12/06

Kate Taylor as been on a remarkable life journey, from London ladette to Shropshire-based sobriety influencer. That journey’s taken her to some very interesting places: New York, Italy, Costa Rica … a heroin den in Tottenham …‘I used girl-power as an excuse to get hammered’We’ve all had nights where things have got a little out of control. Not many of us have woken up in a different country to the one we started drinking in.Kate’s not an alcoholic, she told me, just a social drinker who drank too

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24:30

Hello You 74: Dungeons & Drag Kings

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/11/29

Imagine you never encountered anyone else quite like you.And then you find a whole roomful of people you can identify with.Not only that, but they’re proudly being themselves on a stage in front of an adoring audience.If you’ve kept the real you under wraps for years, or if you’ve never had the opportunity to explore who the real you might be, how liberating would that feel?‘We regularly get people coming for the first time, they come up to us and say “This is the best night of my life”’Dungeons &

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33:55

Hello You 73: Three Beasts and Unicorns

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/11/22

Shropshire-based artist, designer, author and filmmaker Sally E K Warner has been creative since childhood. But she didn’t expect a story she wrote whilst in primary school to spring back to life!Hear her story in this episode of Hello You, then check out her books at Waterstones or Amazon, or better yet in your local independent bookshop.‘Being social causes us stress and anxiety’You may lack self-confidence, for whatever reason. You might find interacting with people, whether in real life or

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54:31

Hello You 72: Beaver Moon

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/11/15

It’s not just a full moon right now. It’s the Beaver Moon.The what?The Beaver Moon is a time related to survival in many cultures. It marks the turn towards winter, breaking free from old habits to start something new. In traditional North American cultures, it is a moment to consider hard work and readiness to face difficult times, related to beavers preparing for winter.I’m very aware of the Beaver Moon at the moment. It’s definitely shining on me right now.What if the most caring members of your

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39:19

Hello You 71: Chords Crush Cancer

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/11/08

Hello You is about people, and stories. Particularly people in, from and connected to Shropshire. People who are doing good things, people with interesting stories to tell and thoughts to share, that you can listen to and then share with others as well.If you know someone who fits that description - maybe it’s you - get in touch with me? A future episode of this podcast could be built around them, or you.In this episode of Hello You, I want you to meet Mark Fielden. You may have met him before, if

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42:13

Hello You 70: Hello You is One Year Old!

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/11/01

One year, seventy episodes … wowI’m not sure I can quite believe it. This podcast - my podcast! - has just passed its first anniversary. My friend Georgy, whose professional experience in what’s now apparently the audio industry means she Knows A Lot About Podcasts, says this is good going, as most pods fizzle out quite soon after launch. Like Victorian families having loads of children to increase the chance of one or two surviving, many, many podcasts are begun but few make it to the one-year

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47:53

Hello You 69: A Welsh Village at Dawn

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/10/25

What does early morning sound like, where you are? Is it traffic and chatter? Footsteps and dogs barking? Wind, sea, wildlife?It’s been a while since I gave you a full-fat soundscape, so to speak, and I hope this will make up for it.Recorded near the churchyard in Hawarden, Flintshire, it brings you birdsong, church bells, a delivery van, and the start of the day’s passing traffic.For the best listening experience, use headphones or earbuds? You should be able to place what’s happening where within

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48:15

Hello You 68: Skinny cappuccino, no chocolate

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/10/18

A few months ago, I went to the GP surgery for a routine review. I wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary. But the HCA handed me an orange envelope, the contents of which took me somewhat by surprise. I mentioned this on that week’s episode of Hello You, and Karen - Dr Karen Stringer - responded. She knew much more about the background to my orange envelope, and said it related to important conversations that we all should be having.Karen very kindly spared some of her time to talk about her

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48:48

Hello You 67: 'We just decided life's too short'

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/10/11

Ever wish you could just take off? Alison and Mark, a Shrewsbury couple in their 50s, decided to do exactly that. Their two-year odyssey’s almost over, but where has it taken them? And what will they do next? If you enjoy listening to Alison and Mark, why not share this with a friend? And to see for yourself where they’ve been, here’s their Instagram! ‘The changing of the seasons’I’ve heard that phrase a lot over the last few weeks, from people who - like me - have found themselves feeling

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40:03

Hello You 66: One Bit At A Time

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/10/04

Almost a year ago, in Hello You 7, we met Clare and her young son Harry. They told me their family’s remarkable story. All seemed to be going really well.But soon after we recorded that interview, Harry fell ill. Eleven months on, the ramifications of that illness have put the family through the mill.Here, Clare and Harry, this time joined by dad Simon, explain what’s happened, where they are now, and what needs to happen next.For all the information about organ donation, click here and visit NHS

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72:53

Hello You 65: 'We repair objects, but we repair...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/09/27

Remember Hello You 48, when back in June I recorded a ‘bench’ at Mumma’s Emporium on Pride Hill in Shrewsbury?One of the people I met there was Annie, who’d come along with a suggestion for somewhere else I could go to record random conversations. Annie’s a volunteer at Shrewsbury’s Repair Café, and she thought it would be a good venue for a bench session.Well, she was absolutely right!This month’s Repair Café took place last Saturday, at the usual location of Shrewsburys United Reformed Church. I

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50:43

Hello You 64: There is Something Else We Can Do

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/09/20

My guest on this episode of Hello You is Samaa Al-Moussalli.She’s the founder of Rising Brains, which is based in Telford and works to support and boost people’s cognitive skills. Samaa tells me how she went from a Masters in educational psychology in Saudi Arabia, to bringing this approach to the UK … and why she chose Telford as her ideal base. Why not share this episode with someone? Samaa mentions the book The Body Keeps the Score, an enlightening analysis of the impact of traumatic stress, by

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26:43

Hello You 63: Trying New Things

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/09/13

In this episode:* the Hello You Sunday Supplement - success!* vertical video - result!* Bench - fail!* lessons learned from some of the above* monotasking is the way forward* fun with family, including …* corrugated iron! * The Marches of Time history festival* Shrewsbury’s Repair Café * next (hopefully more successful) Bench location Want to pass this on to your friends and family? Just click here: Hello and thank you …… to the new subscribers who’ve joined the Hello You family in the past seven

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