89: The local ‘holiday hot-shot’ with insider tips for your next getaway… and more

For Saturday 24th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:50 - Planet Reigate area news

17:05 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

25:40 – GUESTS: This week hear from local independent travel advisor Sally Bosman.

42:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for comforting strangers at Sainsburys.

43:25 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Earlswood Lakes and mallards, coots and gulls

#Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale

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88: The ‘guerilla gardeners’ behind a wildflower makeover of a local roundabout… and more

For Saturday 17th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:55 - Planet Reigate area news and weather

17:20 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

29:00 – GUESTS: This week hear from some of the residents who have taken over the management of… their local roundabout!

People living in Horley have raised money and raised their garden spades, to transform a large drab, overgrown and unloved piece of land, into a wildlife haven, full of colour and teeming with life.

We went down to a recent plating project to catch up with some of the guerrilla gardeners and hear of their motivation and success – and what it will look like as spring turns to summer.

44:00 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

47:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who gave ‘help on the Hill’.

49:00 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Mill Hill Lane in Brockham.

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87: Reigate Dambuster hero and the local composer of the most-famous VE Day march that you *do* know… and more

For Saturday 10th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode

05:15 - Planet Reigate area news

13:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

23:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who rushed to help in Redhill

28:10 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

32:10 – The story of Reigate’s very own Dambuster hero, Michael Fuller, who went from Post Office phone engineer to a member of the valued 617 Squadron and whose mission was turned into a war movie. Who he was, the life he led, and how he died a hero on foreign soil.

And we pay a special tribute to a Reigate musician Frederick Ricketts – who died 80 years ago this coming week in 1945, and who composed many of the marches that you will have heard in this week’s VE Day commemorations. He was also the man behind perhaps the most famous war-time march ever and whose tune you know so well today.

47:10 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, the station at Earlswood

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86: More local sporting heroes (2/2)… and more

For Saturday 3rd May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:25 - Planet Reigate area news and travel

30:50 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

37:50 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

42:20 – GUESTS – Hear from more of the winners of the recent Reigate & Banstead Sports awards. The Planet Reigate Podcast was again, the only media in attendance to speak with the winners and some of the runners up of 11 different categories. Other winners were featured in last week’s show.

58:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a sympathetic stranger.

58:50 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, St Bartholemew's churchyard, Leigh

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85: Our local sporting heroes (1/2)… and more

For Saturday 26th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:00 - Planet Reigate area news, travel and weather

22:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the mystery wallet-woman at The Belfry.

23:40 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

32:30 – GUESTS – This week we hear from some of the winners of the recent Reigate & Banstead Sports awards. Held earlier this month at the Reigate Manor Hotel, The Planet Reigate Podcast was again, the only media in attendance to speak with the winners and some of the runners up of 11 different categories.

49:40 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here. This week, Matt from Redhill.

52:05 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Betchworth, near Snowerhill Farm, with robin, wren and goldfinch

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84: Radio Redhill’s 50th birthday… and more

For Saturday 19th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:10 - Planet Reigate area news

13:45 – GUEST – The radio service that has been entertaining patients and staff at the East Surrey Hospital has marked its 50th anniversary this week. The first experimental broadcast took place on Christmas Day 1974 at the former Redhill General Hospital, with regular programmes starting the following year. I was invited along to be interviewed about the podcast as a guest on one of their anniversary shows, and also took the opportunity to interview Sian, Nick and Nigel about the radio station, as a guest on the podcast!

28:00 – The Hive Mind: Your suggestions for the best fish and chip shops locally

29:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

32:45 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a local ‘star in a car’.

36:00 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, lazing in the grass on a summer’s day at Earlswood Lakes.

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83: The aerodrome-based charity that’s nothing to do with planes, or buses… and more

For Saturday 12th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:20 - Planet Reigate area news

14:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

18:45 – GUEST – Us In A Bus Part 1: This week we tell you about the charity based at the aerodrome, but it’s got nothing to do with planes. Or buses! That’s despite where it is or what it’s called. ‘Us In A Bus’ – which celebrates a big anniversary this year - supports people who have complex communication needs. Though sometimes very subtle interaction, like blinking, their expert staff – called Interaction Practitioners - try and meet those who they support in their space , connecting and communicating with them and helping them express their feelings and choices.

28:30 – Priory Bark: canine conversations. This week, local woman Kim tells us about Bailey, her English Springer Spaniel

31:25 – GUEST – Us In A Bus Part 2

40:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the band of Redhillians who found a lost stuffed toy

45:55 – Planet Reigate Travel News

46:15 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, summer rainfall at Gatton Park

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82: Reigate’s peppermint farms (2/2)… and more

For Saturday 5th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:00 - Planet Reigate area news

07:45 - Planet Reigate area sport

09:00 – Reigate Roulette. Local resident Emma tells us what they love most about living around here.

13:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the woman who gave a boy a boost in Morrisons

15:00 – Hive Minds: collective expert contributions. This week, the best local village or church hall in which to hold a ‘do’.

17:55 - 100 years on, Reigate’s forgotten industry. The second of two features on Reigate’s peppermint farms around Albert Road North: what was the company that produced the oil, who worked there, why did the business fail, and what is around now to mark its existence?

36:25 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

41:38 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, bells at Church of the Holy Family, Yorke Road, Reigate.

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