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

Hello You with Jim Hawkins

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

From the wrong bench in Ludlow - d'oh! And from the train on the way there, too

Jim Hawkins

Mar 19, 2025

Transcript

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 - in Ludlow.

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‘The wedding itself was lovely. The reception turned into a nightmare …’

Roy and Tree were visiting Ludlow on their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary! So it was fifty-eight years since … well, listen to this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast and find out!

'My mum won 25 grand on a scratchcard. She bought a front door, and a sewing machine’

These two were such a delight. I hope they enjoyed the rest of their day in Ludlow.

I need to talk to Alex some more. Listen and you’ll find out why. So if you know former teacher Alex, can you tell her and the Reverend Mike (retired vicar) that I’ll be back recording in Ludlow on Wednesday April 2nd? This time I’ll be on the right bench, the one people suggested, outside the coffee shop and the opticians in Quality Square. Again, I’ll be there from about 12pm. See you there too?

… what have you learned from local Facebook groups?

I explain why I’m asking in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast. It might be something about the history of where you live, a tip for a tremendous local shop, something about what happens in your area … wherever you are, in Shropshire, in the UK or somewhere else around the world!

Send me a message and tell me what you’ve learned from a local Facebook group, and I’ll try to make that the framework for a future episode of Hello You.

Loafing in Ludlow

From Ludlow to Shrewsbury

On Friday morning I’ll publish Hello You 94, which is an interview with Lisa Richards. You might’ve seen her on TV … but it’s not about that. Lisa is an urban designer. She knows about what makes a place a good place. And as we both live in Shrewsbury, we talk about what works in Shrewsbury and what could maybe be improved. We talk about shops and stairs, access and attitudes, pavements and pedestrianisation, buses and bridges and benches and much more. I think you’ll find it fascinating.

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