Category: Local Colour

Michael van Straten: He’s with the Alliance & Leicester

It’s 07:50 on Tuesday 23rd March, and Michael van Straten is calling in from the comfort of his villa in France to answer those niggling health questions that Kerry Devine is taking from the staff at the Alliance & Leicester Building Society on Church Street in Peterborough.

It’s 07:50 on Tuesday 23rd March, and Michael van Straten is calling in from the comfort of his villa in France to answer those niggling health questions that Kerry Devine is taking from the staff at the Alliance & Leicester Building Society on Church Street in Peterborough.

PS: We’ve been out and about again Michael to find out how well, or ill, the people of Peterborough are. We sent Miss Kerry Devine out to the Alliance & Leicester Building Society in Peterborough, to find out what health problems are bothering the staff there. I’m afraid it’s more pins and needles.
MvS: Ah hah! Here we go.
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Posh Fans Walk for Charity

This interview with Peterborough United FC fan and Free Kicks Foundation spokesman Steve Thorpe takes place on the road as fans walk from Peterborough to The Nottingham Forest ground in aid of the Free Kicks Foundation charity. Broadcast at 08:25 on Friday 19th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.

This interview with Peterborough United FC fan and Free Kicks Foundation spokesman Steve Thorpe takes place on the road as fans walk from Peterborough to The Nottingham Forest ground in aid of the Free Kicks Foundation charity. Broadcast at 08:25 on Friday 19th March 2010 in Paul Stainton’s BBC Peterborough Breakfast Show.

PS: Now as we mentioned earlier, POSH travel to Nottingham Forest tomorrow hoping for another victory. Hopefully keep those slim safety dreams alive. Some fans though, set off yesterday morning, a group of them walking as we mentioned yesterday, to raise money for the Free Kicks charity. They set off from London Road around eleven, we had an update, I got a text about five o’clock saying they were in Empingham, and I believe they stayed overnight at Barnsdale Lodge. Steve Thorpe is from Free Kicks. Good morning Steve.
ST: Morning Paul.
PS: You’ve lost the POSH mascot though, haven’t you? The rabbit’s gone somewhere.
ST: Yes, he bowed out around Burghley House. He had feet full of blisters, so he had to retire. He got myxomatosis I think.
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Interview with Buttercross Tearooms

Spring in Central Park Peterborough, at the Buttercross Tearooms (prop. Vincent Terranova)

An interview with Vincent Terranova proprietor of the Buttercross Tearooms Central Park Peterborough, broadcast on the Peterborough Breakfast Show at 07:30 am on Tuesday 16th March 2010. Interviewer is Paul Stainton.

PS: Where better place to start our Springwatch campaign – where better to sit down and enjoy the signs of Spring, than the Buttercross Tearooms in central Park. Vincent Terranova works there and joins us now. Morning Vincent.
VT: Good morning, good morning.
PS: Are you feeling springlike this morning?
VT: Fantastic.
PS: Have you had a lolly?
VT: Definitely spring.
PS: Have you had a lolly? You’ve had a lolly.
VT: I’ve had my lolly this morning.
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Posh Talk: Bob Burrows and Peter Lloyd

Posh Talk: A live three-way chat between Paul Stainton BBC, Bob Burrows, Commentator, and Peter Lloyd Chairman Posh Supporters Trust, following the win at Watford – broadcast at 08:25am Monday 15th March 2010.

A three-way conversation between The BBC’s Paul Stainton,  Commentator Bob Burrows and Posh Supporters’ Trust Chairman Peter Lloyd following the away win at Watford, broadcast at 08:25 am on Monday 15th March 2010.

Paul: Bob Burrows is here, Posh legend. I think I might have said Posh are still ten points from safety, eight, I meant to say. Speedy in Market Deeping has pulled me up on text Bob. They don’t mess about.
Bob: Oh, well done Speedy. He’s on the ball.
Paul: For a bloke from Market Deeping, he’s pretty quick.
Bob: Well, people hang on every word. And there’s nobody makes more mistakes than myself.
Paul: But it sounded like Posh played well on Saturday.
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