The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 36
Links and recommended reading to enjoy on a sunny afternoon
Hello, you.
How’s your weekend going? The weather here in Shropshire is just glorious and I’ll freely admit this will affect which pieces find their way into this week’s Sunday Supplement, and which might be saved for later or dumped completely. Because yes, the planet and many countries and many people’s lives are in a terrible, terrible state. You know that much from the news, however much of that you consume (me: very little).
So within the Sunday Supplement - which if you’re a new subscriber, and I’ve had quite a few of those since my *ahem* award win, welcome! you might be reading for the first time - I’ll include some pieces that shed a different light on some current issues, but I’ll go heavy on the more positive, uplifting and downright quirky stuff. Sunny-day reading, if you like.
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Something to listen to while you read
Payfone - I Was In New York
What went right this week
Uganda halted its Ebola outbreak, elk were mooted for a return to the UK, and working-class writers got a new platform plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
Sunnies on? Lemonade to hand? Let’s do this …
Twenty-one observations from people-watching
In a final act of kindness, Pope Francis donated his entire personal bank account to prisoners right before he died
Habemus Papam! And of course some people aren’t happy
Cuckoo calls, Pewits and an Adder in north Shropshire
Walkman: The first ten years
'I don’t know how to be cool anymore'
People who don’t ask questions: Why are they like that?
New York City is cutting emissions and saving money by making vegetarian meals the default in public hospitals
Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty
'We don’t need to say amen to what was created by a bunch of men; there are other possibilities'
TERF Island: the embarrassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic
Danger! at the dry goods store
Like every would-be autocrat, Trump has an anti-media playbook. And forgive for pointing this out yet a-fuckin’-gain, the people over here who look up to him wouldn’t hesitate to do the same things
On Hello You the award-winning Shropshire podcast this past week:
People-watching and date-witnessing in the Dingle, in Shrewsbury’s Quarrybracketspark. Oh, and a text explanation (because I recorded the audio before winning the award!) of why Hello You the Shropshire podcast is now Hello You the award-winning Shropshire podcast.
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Music, magic and mystery: 25 years of D’Angelo’s Voodoo
The Cadbury’s superfans being left behind
Loathe thy neighbour: The Christian right are waging war on empathy
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu 2025
Your regular reminder that live, local, analogue, over-the-air radio is not only vital every day but provides lifelines to listeners during disasters. And that across the world, live, local, analogue, over-the-air radio is under threat
This is beautiful. If you enjoy the annual BBC TV series Pilgrimage, you'll totally get it
Exploring hidden gems in Bosnia and Herzegovina
'Strauss's Metamorphosen is the work I didn't realise I needed as much as I do at this time of life' - All I Ask of You (Is to Make It to 17'38")
How to live whole in a broken world
Are Hawkins Cheezies the snack food of Canadian sovereignty? (write yer own jokes ...)
'NPR remains unwavering in our commitment to serving the American public. We are proud to be here for you. Now, we need you to be here for us' (if only the BBC would be half as forceful in its own defence, or had been over the last ten years or so)
If you read one thing this week, make it this
We care about our towns, so let's buy from the Davids, not the Goliaths
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Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer
What counts is to be human and simple. No, what counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity - Albert Camus
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❤️Another great Sunday supplement
Another uplifting read, thank you award-winning Jim.