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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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Hello You 62: Dusk at Venus Pool

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/09/06

I have another soundscape for you!Every evening around dusk, flocks of birds gather at Venus Pool, a nature reserve in the care of Shropshire Ornithological Society.Phil Pickin, a Hello You listener and member of the society, suggested it would be a good time and place to record a soundscape, and invited me along. So on Tuesday evening, we settled down in one of the hides at Venus Pool, to watch and listen. As Phil said to me, it’s a good place to let your brain slip out of gear for a while. I hope

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51:35

Hello You 61: Shrewsbury Folk Festival

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/08/30

I’m often asking people, Where do you find your joy?This episode is about one of my own answers to that question.Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2024 took place last weekend. Every August Bank Holiday weekend, I and thousands of others find our joy on Shrewsbury’s County Showground, watching and listening to four days of wonderful music, dancing and performances of all kinds. Hanging out with lovely people, some of whom we’ve known for years, some of whom we just met in the food tent. Relaxing in an

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56:57

Hello You 60: Gillian's Joy

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/08/23

Where do you find your joy? What brings you joy?I’ve been asking that question of various people since I started doing interviews on Hello You. If you want to share your answer with me, I’d love to hear it. Maybe we could talk about what brings you joy on a future episode of Hello You. I could even share in what brings you joy, as I do in this episode. A couple of weekends ago, Hello You listener Gillian took me along on a flight in a light aircraft around and across Shropshire. Flying is where

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49:12

Hello You 59: Alex's Pilgrimage

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/08/16

One of my very favourite TV programmes is Pilgrimage. Every year, a short series of episodes go out around Easter. I explain in this episode why I enjoy it so much. And in this episode you can meet Alex, from Little Drayton. He’s going on a pilgrimage of his own, next weekend. He told me why, and about the events in his life that have led up to it. He’s had a lot going on for someone who’s only seventeen years old.Support Alex on his Pilgrimage! Also in this episode:‘I’m good’, and why I’m

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79:44

Hello You 58: Save the Hive!

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/08/09

Meet the wonderful people of one of Shrewsbury's most special places. It’s transformed lives. Some say it’s saved theirs.‘It strangely felt like home’It’s somewhere that’s really important to so many people in Shropshire. ‘It’s the connection that makes the change’And it needs your help to survive.‘I can’t imagine having a functioning community without this place’Join me to explore The Hive, meet some of the lovely, creative and passionate people associated with it, and find out how you could help

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27:51

Hello You 57: Some thoughts on the past week, and a...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/08/09

It’s been a hell of a week. A living hell, for some of our neighbours around the country.Compared to them, I have little to complain about. But I wondered how the last few days have been for your mental health, especially if the disorder we’ve seen has touched your life, or that of your family, in any way.Share your thoughts in the comments, or by sending me a message. Also, the last couple of weeks have sharpened my thoughts on social media, and where I should and shouldn’t be. I explain in more

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56:29

Hello You 56: Be More Tina!

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/08/02

Hello You is about stuff, and things. People and stories, mental and physical health and wellbeing, art and creativity, Shrewsbury and Shropshire, self-knowledge and the changes, obstacles and complexities of life. Meet Tina. Tina lives in Shrewsbury, and she responded to my invitation to people who have a story to share, and thoughts to think about. She has plenty to share about pretty much all of those topics. Some of what she has to say chimes very much with my own experience; some of it you may

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39:34

Hello You 55: A Battlefield Soundscape

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/07/26

The Battle of Shrewsbury took place six hundred and twenty-one years ago this week, on July 21, 1403. The site is now peaceful farmland, with a footpath around the perimeter much loved by dog-walkers, a church built to commemorate the dead, and pylons striding across the Shropshire landscape. But what does it sound like?I hope you enjoy this episode of Hello You. If you do, tell your friends? Get full access to Hello You - Jim Hawkins’s Substack at jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe

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37:57

Hello You 54: A Cup of Tea at the Counter

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/07/19

What do you pick up at your local convenience store? A couple of pizzas and a few beers for movie-night at home? Tea bags, ice cream, bin liners … and help with loneliness? Julie Kaur has been behind the counter at Jule’s Convenience Store on Haybridge Road in Hadley for thirty years. She’s developed an eye for people who maybe need a chat, or some company. If you look like you need one, she’ll make you a cup of tea, and you can sit at the end of the counter and talk to her, or to the other members

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Hello You 53: Conversations from a Bench on Pride...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/07/15

A fun-size episode! Some recordings from a slightly chaotic visit to Shrewsbury’s Pride Hill, where I sat on the benches and listened to some people. I’m displeased with myself. I wasn’t entirely happy with how I dealt with this Bench session, which took place last Friday lunchtime. In the interests of full disclosure, I deleted the first conversation I recorded, ostensibly because the person I was talking to was making me feel angry, but in retrospect, I wasn’t handling it at all well.And I let you

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43:47

Hello You 52: Searching for Tracey

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/07/12

‘Who wouldn’t want an Uncle Buck? Someone loads of fun who’d also stick up for you?’ Tracey J. Morgan, from Shrewsbury, has published a new edition of her biography of the Canadian actor John Candy. She’s also been going to remarkable lengths to contact a famously elusive Hollywood legend, for her next writing project. They involve a letter, a golf course and holidaying in the same place and at the same time every year. Who’s the legend? What happened when they came face-to-face? Find out in this

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54:20

Hello You 51: 'So Much More Than a Podcast, This Is a...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/07/05

‘If you find something you enjoy, you’ve got to hold on to it’ Nigel’s been listening to, and commenting on, Hello You since the very first episode. And now he gets one of his own! Take a listen and meet him for yourself. I want to build a virtual summerhouseBut to do so, I need your knowledge and expertise with Facebook. My idea is this: Create a Hello You hangout, so the Hello You family has somewhere to go online, and where we can invite our friends back to meet the family.Should this be a

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55:24

Hello You 50: Hello You Hits a Half-Century!

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/28

Wow.I started this podcast kinda by accident, as this episode explains. And with your support and encouragement, I’ve now made fifty episodes!Thank you so much. This means a lot to me now … again, as this episode explains. If you’re on board with Hello You, please hit ‘Like’ anywhere you can. That helps other people find out about it, and we can enlarge the Hello You family. Subscribe, too, or follow on Spotify? And encourage your friends, family, co-workers? So now I need some great ideas for the

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58:22

Hello You 49: "Exploitation, prison or death"

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/21

What took Sonya Jones from a small village on the Shropshire border with Wales, to a nationally-recognised authority on child exploitation and safeguarding?And how did the tragic, violent death of a teenager from Merseyside on a Shrewsbury housing estate begin to unlock the mechanisms and the sordid mysteries of county-lines drug trafficking? More by Sonya Jones:‘'I wasn't a gangster, just a kid from Shropshire': how drugs gangs are exploiting lockdown’‘County lines, a complex national problem

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63:58

Hello You 48: Come to Mumma's

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/17

Includes:* repairing stuff* growing things* giving people voices* kids and nature* the Bench’s backstory * many, many postcards of Ruyton-XI-Towns* yarnbombing* the paranormal* Castlefields* the Hello You philosophy - what I’m trying to do* the history of Our Price Records* scary dolls* old radios* people who make Shrewsbury a better place, and* psychic phenomena. Some of which happen in real time, while I'm recording. The psychic phenomena, not for example the yarnbombing. If I had any hair, it

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37:57

Hello You 47: 'I'm making the most of what I have'

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/14

How do you life your life, when you don’t know how much life you have left to live? Last spring, Nick Deane - a previously fit and active fifty-something, a Parkrun stalwart and a member of the Shropshire Shufflers - experienced the first symptoms of motor neurone disease.In this episode of Hello You, Nick tells his story, and shares his thoughts about living with an incurable condition for which there is no treatment. He talks about how he was diagnosed, the support he’s had from the NHS, and about

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51:24

Hello You 46: Sunshine, Flags and Rainbows

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/10

Conversations from a Shrewsbury Pride Picnic in the Quarry [Park]. Hear from people who’ve moved to Shropshire from Barcelona, the Philippines, Venezuela, Spain and Wales - where do they prefer? Also: * why do so few specifically-queer songs have happy lyrics?* learning a sense of right and wrong from Star Wars* how it feels to realise you’re the only person of colour around* the importance of building a visible community* choosing toilets in Llandudno My thanks to Phil Davies and Shrewsbury Pride

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47:42

Hello You 45: How Horses Can Help Us Understand...

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/07

Some people have been around horses all their lives. I’m not one of those people. But an hour in the company of half-a-dozen horses opened my eyes to what they can teach us about ourselves. Hear what happened in this episode of Hello You.Julia Jones runs Altezza People, providing ‘fun, effective and experiential learning with horses’. Spending time with horses, under Julia’s guidance, can increase our self-awareness and help us to know ourselves better … and, she says, can give businesses and

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Hello You 44: Toby's Territory

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/06/03

Toby the Cat is part of the community in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He took an interest in what I was up to, when I sat on a bench near the Guildhall last Friday afternoon.Topics that came up in conversation:* family history, and discovering stories of famine, persecution and having to flee* where and when would you go in a Time Machine?* loneliness* finding joy in simple things* the importance of hope I hope you enjoy this episode of Hello You. If you do, tell your friends?And so you don’t miss any

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52:21

Hello You 43: Spirits of Shelton

Hello You - the Shropshire podcast with Jim Hawkins ·

2024/05/31

Content warning: suicide, crueltyMeet Kate McLanachan, Shropshire mental health nurse and author of ‘Spirits of Shelton’.Kate’s second book recounts the paranormal experiences and reported ghost sightings of people working at Shrewsbury’s Shelton psychiatric hospital. It also covers the hospital’s often tragic history, and some of the former treatments and practices … which are just as likely to keep you awake at night as the ghost stories!More about Kate here, and her book is available in local

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