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- 1 weeks ago22 min
Hello You 162: A Sunday afternoon in the park, in stereo
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimallthetime.substack.comA Sunday soundscape in vivid stereoIt’s been a while since I published a ‘soundscape’ episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast. Sunday afternoon, though, presented the perfect opportunity to record one.The afternoon was sunny, if not quite as warm as it at first looked. It was the perfect time to go to the park, in this case the Quarry (Park) in Shre…
- 2 weeks ago58 min
Hello You 161: With the bikers at Montford Bridge
It’s the first Bench episode of 2026!Here’s something I started doing on the radio about twenty years ago, and I’ve carried on as part of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.It’s a very simple idea: I sit on a bench, somewhere in Shropshire, and talk with whoever sits on the bench with me.‘It’s just the nicest feeling in the world’Every Tuesday evening during British Summer Time dozens, often hundreds of bikers descend on the picnic area around the Montford Bridge Café, just off the A5, for tea and coffee, burgers and chips but mostly just to hang out and chat.This struck me as a great opportunity to record a ‘Bench’ episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, and Amanda Mullins of Shropshire and Powys Advanced Riders had the same idea.So last Tuesday I went along. In this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast you can hear what happened.I met some wonderful people, learned about great ideas like Motorbiker Acts of Random Kindness’ brilliant Bike and Brew Passport, felt the warmth of the welcome from the biking community and heard some fantastic stories about what biking means and has done for people. ‘The freedom and self-belief from it has been phenomenal … I can be me’Whether you’re astride a bike or not, I can definitely recommend a Tuesday evening at the Montford Bridge Café! I’ll be returning later in the summer to record another ‘Bench’ session, and I’ll be back just for fun sometime soon … not least because I owe Shirley £10 for my Bike and Brew Passport!What do you think of this episode of Hello You?Join in the conversation in the comments: And if you enjoy this podcast, share it with your friends! Where else could I sit on a bench and talk to people?If you know of a bench where there are plenty of people around, let me know?It could be in a town centre in Shropshire or one of our villages. It might be at an event, as in this episode. It could even be a ‘virtual bench’ somewhere, as long as there are folk for me to chat with and listen to.Message me your bench suggestion and I’ll put it on the list! Intelligent, informed, progressive, quirky conversation… for and about Shropshire and the wider world.That’s what I aim to deliver on Hello You the Shropshire podcast. It’s not limited to Shropshire! There are listeners and subscribers not just all over the UK, but all over the world. People like you, who care about and are interested other people.Why not become a member of the Hello You family?Click this button to subscribe, either for free or, to support progressive local public-service audio journalism, take out a paid subscription: Thank you for being thereI’m really grateful to you for taking an interest in my work. If you like it, you’ll know other people who’d like it too, so share it with them? Take care of yourselfThese are challenging times, and we need to look out for one another.Take care of the people around you, and I hope they are taking care of you, too. Hello You - the Shropshire podcast from Jim Hawkins is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe
- 3 weeks ago39 min
Hello You 160: There is everything to look forward to
‘It really is as though one person is speaking directly to you, saying it’s going to be all right’Formerly The Emergency Poet, offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance, Deb Alma is now best known as co-founder of the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy, based in Bishop’s Castle here in Shropshire.In this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, Deborah Alma talks about how poetry can help us, and tells her remarkable story which encompasses using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with women’s groups and with children in schools, right up to opening Poetry Pharmacy branches in York and on London’s Oxford Street!Join in the conversation in the comments: Mentioned in this episode:Poetry Prescriptions by Deborah AlmaDeborah Alma’s poetry and anthologies on Bookshop‘Staying Alive’, an anthology of five hundred poems from around the world edited by Neil Astley‘In Blackwater woods’, by Mary J. Oliver‘Arrival’, by R.S. ThomasIf you enjoy this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, you probably know someone else who’d like it just as much. Why not hit this button and share it with them right now? A beano, a boogie or a bunfight in Bishop’s Castle?The small town of Bishop’s Castle is a very Hello You type of place. It’s where Deb Alma established her Poetry Pharmacy, and she says it’s ‘full of people who have opted out of the general way of things’.It’s got a very special vibe, one that I think fits with the Hello You ethos. Hence my suggestion, in this episode, that maybe we could get together there?Would you be interested in meeting up and hanging out with other listeners to Hello You the Shropshire podcast? And if so, would Bishop’s Castle be a good place to do it?Send me a message to tell me what you think. Are you up for this? While you’re thinking about it, here’s some Bishop’s Castle info to tempt you, maybe:Visit Shropshire: Bishop’s CastleBishop’s Castle and BeyondVisit Shropshire Hills: Bishop’s Castle Stuff. And thingsThat’s what Hello You is about. People’s stories, largely. And the occasional rant or brain-dump from me (e.g. the first few minutes of this episode!).Or if you prefer, it’s intelligent, informed, progressive and often quirky conversation, for and about Shropshire and the wider world.I’ll include one of those two descriptions in my ‘supporting material’ with the podcast award entries I’m contemplating, if I get my s**t together enough to actually enter the awards. As you’ll hear in this episode, I’m as yet undecided, and the clock is ticking.Anyway, whichever description works for you - ‘Stuff and Things’ or ‘Intelligent, informed yadda yadda’ - I hope you like what I do. Want to hear more? Splendid! There are more than a hundred and fifty previous episodes to check out! I hope you’ll also subscribe, so you don’t miss any future Hello Yous. It’s free to subscribe! Should you feel led by whichever spirit populates your belief system to take out a paid subscription, though, I will be profoundly grateful. Also, you’ll get some paid-tier-only audio (as soon as I’ve recorded some more of it).Click the hell out of this button: Please also click the hell out of any ‘Like’ or heart-shaped buttons you see around Hello You, whether it’s here on Substack, on Apple, Google or Spotify Podcasts (hit ‘follow’ on Spotify too? and if your friends are big Spotify users, send them the link).Thank you for being a member of the Hello You familyI can’t tell you how much it means to me that you even check out what I do. Even though we’re spread all over the world, we are a family.
- Apr 12, 202631 min
Hello You 159: 'It's MASSIVE to be able to help people'
‘There’s something inside you that’s never broken’Sarah-Charlotte Peace has been through a lot.And I do mean, a lot. In this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, Sarah-Charlotte tells her story and explains how her experiences have fed into her work as Peaceful Warrior Wellbeing.Join in the conversation about this episode in the comments: ‘They’re looking for peace, and it’s my role to help them’I recorded part of this episode stretched out on the floor of the meeting room in Oswestry Library! Hey, I’ll go where I need to go and do what I need to do … ‘We’re not shielding, we’re empowering’That’s what I try to do with Hello You the Shropshire podcast, too. Not shielding, but empowering.Please share this episode of Hello You with anyone you think will find it interesting: If Hello You could help empower you, please get in touchMaybe you’re involved in something that’s important to you, and more people need to know about it. Perhaps telling your story or raising an issue will empower you to cross the next bridge towards where you want to be.Or you have an idea for how Hello You the Shropshire podcast could help you and others towards something you’ve been dreaming about or planning for ages.Even if you simply just want to get in touch and say hello, send me a message and let’s see where we go from there: We can support each other in the Hello You familyLike any family, you can get as involved in its goings-on as you’re comfortable with. The first simple step, though, is to subscribe. Click here to find out all about it: Thank you …… for being there. It means a lot.I’d love it if you could drop Hello You the Shropshire podcast into conversation with your friends, family, co-workers, WhatsApp chat group members or whoever at some point over the next few days. They don’t have to be in Shropshire! Some of Hello You’s most frequent listeners live in other countries, let alone other counties.Send them to the main Substack page jimallthetime.substack.com? I hope they like it!Please take care of yourselfPlease also take care of the people around you. If you don’t, maybe no-one else will …And I hope the people around you are taking good care of you, too. Hello You - the Shropshire podcast from Jim Hawkins is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe
- Mar 28, 202643 min
Hello You 158: Purl and protest
‘It does stretch …’‘Anthrax biscuits’, buses, life after breast cancer and craftivism in action with Jane Hickman from south Shropshire. Also: subversive samplers, village life in All Stretton, and Satan’s sandwich spread, all in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.Find more about Jane and her work at Gardening Witch Designs, on Facebook and at her Etsy shop too. If you knit, crochet, sew, and/or want to shake up the world, please share this episode with fellow enthusiasts and like-minded others? Revolution, or ritual? Protest, or performance?Have you been in London this weekend? I know quite a few people who travelled down to take part in the Together Alliance march.Such protests serve a psychological function, but do they actually change anything?In this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, I share my thoughts on this powerful, provocative article by Dr Stacey Patton. Dr Patton says ‘what feels like resistance might actually be obedience in a different outfit’.Now it’s your turnWhat did Jane say that struck a chord with you? Do you agree with Dr Stacey Patton about protests? Join in the discussion in the comments: What’s on your mind?Maybe you have a story to tell or thoughts to share on Hello You the Shropshire podcast. Perhaps there’s a topic that’s not being talked about as much as you think it should. Let me know: Join the Hello You familyAs you enjoy intelligent, informed, progressive and slightly quirky conversation, for and about Shropshire and the wider world, then please subscribe to get more! And open the door for others?Who else would enjoy Hello You the Shropshire podcast? They don’t have to be in Shropshire; people listen to Hello You all over the world.And I’m sure this is up the street of someone you know. It might be someone you work with. A member of your family. Your other half, someone in your faith community or friendship circle, even a whole bunch of people in your WhatsApp chats.Why not share Hello You with a friend? I’m sure it’ll give the two of you plenty to talk about: Thank you for being therePlease take care of yourself in these difficult times. Take care of the people around you … and I hope the people around you are taking care of you, too. Remember:Hello You - the Shropshire podcast from Jim Hawkins is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe
- Mar 15, 202624 min
Hello You 157: 'We've got sanitary towels instead of fish'
‘There’s a sewage release into the wild every thirty seconds’Have you seen Dirty Business on Channel 4?It’s a real-life drama about local people investigating a water pollution scandal affecting their local river, and challenging the people in charge over their greed and negligence.Here in Shropshire, the campaign group Up Sewage Creek is doing something similar with regard to the River Severn. Next weekend, Up Sewage Creek will be taking part in a procession through Shrewsbury to mark World Water Day. You can hear about their campaigns and what’s happening next Sunday in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.What are your thoughts on this episode of Hello You?Join in the conversation in the comments: Also mentioned in this episode:The Shropshire Welcomes group on FacebookThe wonderful Portland Frog BrigadeI’d love to hear from youMaybe this is the first time you’ve listened to Hello You the Shropshire podcast. Perhaps you’ve got a story or some thoughts to share, that could make a future episode of Hello You. Or you just want to say hi. Send me a message? Your friends, family and colleagues would love to hear from you tooWhen you find something great, naturally you want to share it with others.And if you like informed, intelligent, progressive conversation for and about Shropshire and the wider world, you know other people who’d like it just as much.Share Hello You the Shropshire podcast with them with just one click: Thank you for being thereWhy not join the Hello You family by subscribing? I’ll have another episode of the podcast for you very soon. If you subscribe (it’s free! or you can pay if you like, I’d be very grateful) you’ll get an email when the next Hello You drops.In the meantime, take care of yourself. Take care of the people around you. And I hope the people around you are taking care of you, too. Hello You - the Shropshire podcast from Jim Hawkins is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe
- Mar 6, 202642 min
Hello You 156: We need that on a T-shirt!
‘We are not doing a very good job of meeting our young people where they are’(cw: includes references to suicide)Alongside their work as a brand designer, Shropshire-based G Sabini-Roberts has been part of a team delivering LGBTQ+ inclusion training to schools, corporate clients, networking groups, the public sector and more for a long time. As they say, ‘a lot of us in marginalised communities, we’re doing activism all of the time’!That’s led them to set up Rainbow Wise, which delivers essential training to everyone who needs it in easily-assimilated bite-size chunks.In this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, G explains how Rainbow Wise came about. Why not share the episode with people you know who’ll be interested? We also discussed when a women’s group is not a women’s group, the Women’s Institute (here’s the press release G mentions) and Girlguiding. why you wouldn’t want your kid to be trans in the UK right now … and how getting ticked-off at meetings and conferences led to the launch of the marvellous Ticked Off Tees! What do you think of G’s comments in this episode?Join in the conversation in the comments:… or send me a message, about anything at all: ‘Most people are good humans who want to do the right thing’If you agree with the above statement, then you’re a natural fit with the Hello You family. Why not confirm your membership by taking out a subscription to Hello You the Shropshire podcast? And if you, like me, believe that most people are mostly good, most of the time, then you’re bound to know others who feel the same way. You may live with them, work with them, talk to them on social media, meet them in the café or down the pub. So why not share Hello You with them? If you like it, then so will they! Thank you for being therePlease take care of yourself. Take care of the people around you. And I hope those people are taking care of you, too. Hello You - the Shropshire podcast from Jim Hawkins is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe
- Mar 3, 202631 min
Hello You 155: A space to explore the big stuff
Where to go when the world feels wobblyWouldn’t it be great if there was somewhere you could go, to talk about ‘the big stuff’: hope and heart, courage and community, and how we can try to find a way through everything that’s happening around and to us? Jen Deacon is involved in activities at Shrewsbury’s Unitarian Church. For the next few weeks on Tuesday evenings Jen will be leading Meanderings, a chance for those of us wanting to find how to be and support the good in the world to talk about how that might be done. Jen tells me about Meanderings, and the Wednesday Lunchtime Meditations that she also facilitates, in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.Hello, new subscribers!There was a lot of reaction to Hello You 154, the interview with Cllr Alex Wagner, the LibDem deputy leader of Shropshire Council and Mayor of Shrewsbury. If you live in Shropshire, there’ll be something in our conversation that connects with your life. And if you’re interested in the challenges and machinations of local government, there’s plenty in there to keep you thinking. I’m thrilled to say that lots of people subscribed to Hello You the Shropshire podcast as a result of the last episode, either before it went out to make sure they didn’t miss it, or once they’d listened to it. If you’re one of them: thank you so much! I’m very grateful that you support intelligent local public-service audio journalism. I couldn’t do this without you.If you’re not yet a subscriber, then hit this button and join the Hello You family: And if you like what I do, please:* smash the hell out of any ‘Like’ button you can see* tell your friends, family, co-workers about Hello You the Shropshire podcast* talk about Hello You in the pub, on the bus, over coffee, at meetings …* and share Hello You with other good people like yourself, using this buttonThank you for being therePlease take care of yourself? It’s a wobbly world, as Jen Deacon tells us in this episode.Please take care of the people around you?And I hope the people around you are taking care of you, too. Hello You - the Shropshire podcast from Jim Hawkins is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimallthetime.substack.com/subscribe
About 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 cares about people. Audio that brings you the voices of people you might not hear from otherwise. Interviews conducted with compassion and empathy. Thoughtful, positive, good-humoured conversations, informed local storytelling, and commentary that’s not afraid to get righteously angry on occasion. jimallthetime.substack.com
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