In this episode of Keep Talking about.... community researchers talk about how being a community researcher can help to give something back and support others, how friendship can be a lifeline during difficult times and the power of lived expe

Keep Talking about... Community

Sep 11th, 2020 23m 7s

In this episode of Keep Talking about.... community researchers talk about how being a community researcher can help to give something back and support others, how community and family can be a lifeline during difficult times and the power of l

Keep Talking about...Creativity

Aug 28th, 2020 13m 44s

This podcast looks at the role of a community researcher, identifies some of the challenges they have overcome, both in their own lives and throughout the global pandemic and how they have built a community. The series covers isolation, disabil

Keep Talking about...Disability

Aug 27th, 2020 21m 28s

Keep Talking about... Isolation

Aug 27th, 2020 19m 37s

School children saving the memory of a WW2 hero

Aug 7th, 2019 7m 47s

In this episode I hear from pupils at St Mary's school Tunstall, who in working on a WW2 project continued to dig deeper and in doing so learn about the heroics of Staffordshire's John BaskeyField. They have gone on to write letters in his mem

'A night at the flicks'

Jul 17th, 2019 11m 17s

In this episode of The Way We Were Podcast I take a look at the cinemas and picture houses of North Staffordshire over the last 60-years. I hear from members of the Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire nostalgia community group and hear the t

D-DAY 75-years on pt3

Jul 17th, 2019 14m 17s

In the third and final instalment of my look at D-DAY I talk to Daniel Harrison who landed on Gold beach and was involved with logistics during the days after the Normandy landings...

D-DAY 75-years on pt2

Jul 17th, 2019 16m 4s

In the second of my three-part series looking at D-DAY and the Normandy landings, I talk to Jim Wildes who worked on bomber command during the June 6th, 1944...

D-Day 75-years on pt1

Jul 17th, 2019 9m 22s

In the first of a three-part commemoration of the anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy landings during WW2 we hear from Norman Lewis, 99, about his mission to blow up a bridge and his years as a POW...

70-years of the NHS

Jul 17th, 2019 19m 34s

In my latest episode of The Way We Were Podcast for @SOTlive I take a look back at the National Health Service over the last seven decades and hear from those who have worked there