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Peterborough Male Voice Choir Help For Heroes Concert

Peterborough Male Voice Choir will perform a 75th anniversary concert in Peterborough Cathedral on Saturday July 10th 2010, supported by Roythornes Solicitors and Peterborough City Council, in aid of Help for Heroes. Jonathan Williams and Will Prideaux from the Choir have a conversation with the BBC’s Andy Gall in the Peterborough Breakfast Show, broadcast at 07:27 on Friday May 29th 2010 on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

ANDY: Now Peterborough’s Male Voice Choir is hosting a seventy fifth anniversary concert on the Tenth of July in aid of the charity Help for Heroes. Members Jonathan Williams and Will Prideaux, who’s the Music Director, have joined us in the studio this morning. Good morning chaps.
BOTH: Good morning.
ANDY: Good to hear from you. You have the voices, don’t you, that are just obligatory for singing that kind of well for singing opera really anyway in a choir. (WARBLES)(LAUGHS) Continue reading “Peterborough Male Voice Choir Help For Heroes Concert”

JLS Peterborough Tickets On Sale

Cllr Gavin Elsey tells BBC’s Paul Stainton that tickets will be going on sale this weekend at the Destination Centre for the JLS Embankment Concert in Peterborough scheduled for Saturday July 18th 2010. This interview was broadcast at 07:55 on Thursday May 13th 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

(MUSIC: BEAT AGAIN)

PAUL: Now just a couple of months until Peterborough’s Aston Merrygold and the rest of JLS get down and dirty on the Embankment. The concert takes place on Saturday July the eighteenth. Tickets go on sale this Saturday. We’ll speak to Councillor Gavin Elsey Cabinet Member for Pop Music .. no for Regional and Business development. Morning Gavin.
GAVIN: Morning Paul.
PAUL: How are you?
GAVIN: I’m good. Yourself?
PAUL: I’m very good. Are you going to be first in the queue then Saturday?
GAVIN: I’ve already bought tickets unfortunately, so I can’t be first in the queue. Continue reading “JLS Peterborough Tickets On Sale”

Save The Cresset Theatre Campaign

The Cresset Theatre Peterborough could be saved from closure thanks to a spirited campaign and encouraging support received from promoters and public. This interview by Paul Stainton with campaigner Andy Jardine was broadcast at 07:10 on Thursday May 13th 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
It is followed by an interview with Jonathan Martin from the YMCA which operates the Cresset Theatre. This second interview was broadcast at 08:10 on the same day.

The Cresset Theatre Peterborough could be saved from closure thanks to a spirited campaign and encouraging support received from promoters and public. The first interview by Paul Stainton with campaigner Andy Jardine was broadcast at 07:10 on Thursday May 13th 2010 in the Peterborough Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
It is followed by an interview with Jonathan Martin from the YMCA which operates the Cresset Theatre. This second interview was broadcast at 08:10 on the same day.

PAUL: Let’s start with the big story this morning though. What is the future of the Cresset Theatre in Peterborough? Just a few weeks ago it was announced all shows would end in June. But the Bretton venue’s website is still advertising comedy nights and music acts appearing as late as November. In the next hour we’ll speak to Jonathan Martin Chief Executive of the YMCA which operates the Cresset. First though let’s speak to Andy Jardine who lives in Wansford and is one of a number of people who started campaigns to keep the theatre open. In fact, we had a look round at all the people that are doing this and starting campaigns, and we spoke to a lady, there’s about eight thousand people joined various things. Andy, good morning.
ANDY: Good morning Paul.
PAUL: You’ve started an internet campaign, haven’t you? Continue reading “Save The Cresset Theatre Campaign”

Willie Thorne on Neil Robertson

This very brief and hasty interview with snooker legend Willie Thorne follows the news that last night Cambridge-based snooker player Neil Robertson defeated Graeme Dott to win the world championship at the Crucible Theatre. Broadcast at 08:58 on Tuesday 4th May 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough. Paul interrupts his handover talk with BBC Cambridgeshire’s Andy Harper to hear that producer Ben Stevenson has finally managed to get an interview with a snooker personality. Continue reading “Willie Thorne on Neil Robertson”

World Quizzing Championship in Peterborough

Peterborough’s Quiz Champion Steve Dodding tells Paul Stainton that Kings School Peterborough will provide one of the locations for this year’s World Quizzing Championships to be held on June 5th 2010. Broadcast at 07:55 on Thursday 29th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

Peterborough’s Quiz Champion Steven Dodding tells Paul Stainton that Kings School Peterborough will provide one of the locations for this year’s World Quizzing Championships to be held on Saturday June 5th 2010. Broadcast at 07:55 on Thursday 29th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

(MASTERMIND MUSIC)

PAUL: The World Quizzing Championships are coming to Peterborough. As well as the main quiz, there will be a crime and punishment tour, Cathedral tour, curry night, and lots more quizzes. Sounds like fun? Steven Dodding is the Peterborough Quiz Champion. I nearly called him a geek. Steven good morning.
STEVEN: Good morning Paul. How are you?
PAUL: I do apologise. We are being derogatory on purpose to people this morning, and then we’re apologising afterwards, if that’s alright.
STEVEN: So I believe, yes. So I believe.
PAUL (WHISPER: geek) Sorry about that. Sorry. Sorry.
STEVEN: (LAUGHS)
PAUL: It’s a new way of getting rid of your guests and your listeners.
STEVEN: There’s a lot of geek chic around at the moment, isn’t there? It’s a good thing.
PAUL: Geek chic! What is that?
STEVEN: Well I’m sure I have it in spades.
PAUL; (LAUGHS) Anyway. Peterborough has been chosen to hold the World Quizzing Championships. Continue reading “World Quizzing Championship in Peterborough”

Shelagh Smith on Vivacity

Shelagh Smith Chair of Peterborough Culture and Leisure Trust talks about the launch of their new brand for the enterprise called “Vivacity”. Broadcast at 08:10 on Tuesday April 27th 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough. The guest host is Andy Gall.

ANDY: Andy in for Paul this morning. Plans for Peterborough’s new Culture and Leisure Trust Vivacity have been unveiled. The Trust will take over the running of Peterborough’s libraries, museums, sports facilities and the Key Theatre from the first of May. Earlier, Kevin Tighe the new Chief Executive of Vivacity explained why the change had been made.
(Music Jingle)
ANDY: Oh. It’s not there. Sorry. I do apologise. We’ll try and get that bit of audio for you in a few seconds. But we can now speak to Shelagh Smith who is the new Chairman of the Trust and joins us now. Good morning Shelagh.
SHELAGH: Hello. Hello Andy.
ANDY: Sorry about that. Apologies for the funny way we got to you this morning.
SHELAGH: That’s OK.
ANDY: But I’m sure we’ll be fine at the end of the day. So as a Trust, what are your aims please? Continue reading “Shelagh Smith on Vivacity”

Steve Jason on Peterborough Venues

Local promoter Steve Jason comments on the “poor relation” status of Peterborough venues, following the news that The Cresset Theatre will close. Broadcast at 08:10 on Monday 26th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

PAUL: Now on the show this morning we have been focusing on the lack of night-life in Peterborough following the news that the Cresset Theatre is to close by the first of July, well to acts anyway. The Broadway Theatre of course closed fifteen months ago. Peterborough now just has one recognisable theatre, and that’s the Key. So will we, as a city, still be able to attract the country’s top performers? Or will entertainment and culture in Peterborough suffer from the lack of a quality venue? I suggested that to Council Leader Marco Cereste last week, that we might become the poor relation of Cambridge and Leicester and places like that, and he was quite angry about it. But that’s my opinion. Let’s find out from a man who should know. Steve Jason has been a promoter in Peterborough for many years, one of the few people in the city still putting things on. Steve, morning.
STEVE: Good morning.
PAUL: Both wearing cheesecloth this morning. Very nice. (laughs) Complement each other beautifully. Surely I made a fair point last week, didn’t I? Without the Cresset we’re a poor relation, aren’t we? We can’t see the top acts here. We can’t see the middling acts here anymore can we? Continue reading “Steve Jason on Peterborough Venues”

Halfords Cycle Tour is Coming to Peterborough

Halfords Cycle Tour is coming to Peterborough. Ben Price local cyclist talks to Paul Stainton. Broadcast at 07:25 on Tuesday 20th April 2010 in the Paul Stainton Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Peterborough.

PAUL: Good news if you’re a Peterborian. The Halfords Cycle Tour is coming again to Peterborough this year. You may remember the race made it’s debut last year in the city. It was a massive success. Over five thousand people turned up in the city centre to see people going whizzing around our streets, even though I oiled the corner near Woolworths. Ben Price is from City Racing and will be in the race on the fifteenth of June. Good morning Ben.
BEN: Good morning.
PAUL: Nice bit of Lycra there. Continue reading “Halfords Cycle Tour is Coming to Peterborough”