If you'd like to sponsor Darren and Fozzie then just go to this link... https://www.justgiving.com/page/spearhead-fitness-4?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL Too many young men are taking their own lives and too high a proportion of those are former military men who feel cut adrift from the life they have lived and loved. Darren Clark from Bexhill in East Sussex is doing something about it; raising awarenes and raising money as he battles his own mental health demons. He seen close friends and for...
Aug 08, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Peter Mould is more than just a well known face around The Stables Theatre in Hastings, he has been taking pictures of the shows and the actors in them for getting on for a quarter of a century. The soon to be 80-year-old is as busy as ever and has seen so many changes in his craft over the years, hew took his first photographs with a camera given to him by his father when he was just 14 years old! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 04, 2025•39 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Actions should speak louder than words but when you can't get any action are the words on their own enough? Governments have pledged Hastings tens of millions but where the evidence of that moeny working to our benefit? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 17, 2025•8 min•Season 1Ep. 3
It's all happening at The Stade hall this summer with a series of plays squarely aimed at young families from tots to teenagers - creating theatre experiences for families at all stages, says Ross Drury Book your tickets at www.stadehall.com/whatson Or join the mailiong list at https://www.spunglasstheatre.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 10, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Roger Wilcock was a fascinatibng man to interview. He's done so much with his life; he started his career in teaching then swapped to stonemasonry for example. He formed the Hastings Big Choir and was the force behind the Hastings Prom which makes a return this year after a five year break. In this interview Roger talks about his childhood, his studies and his adult life and underpinning it all is the constant of music from choral to rock Roger loves it all as you will hear. Oh yes and there are...
May 21, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 10
Episode two of Hastings Five in 5 where we take a brief look at five local issues in around five minutes. If you want to contact us and let us know what you think then email hastingsinfocus@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 16, 2025•6 min•Season 1Ep. 2
On a perfectly normal afternoon in 2021 Claire Claire Duffield and her familty were watching the football but just hours later they were in a London hospital being told that 15-year-old Oli might have a brain tumour. Claire faced every parent's worst nightmare. In this interview she bravely recalls how devastating the news was and talks about the last two years of Oli's life, which given the circumstances included a number of highlights, including the time Paul Hollywood turned up to do some bak...
May 11, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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Apr 25, 2025•6 min•Season 1Ep. 1
What's in this edition The state of our roads Over running A21 roadworks The Stables Theatre Sandrock Bends The old bathing pool site New openings in the town centre Get in touch hastingsinfocus@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 23, 2025•6 min•Season 1Ep. 1
'It became this forgotten place...' In this episode we meet Alex Adams, the artistic and managing director at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre in Eastbourne and hear about his journey to to bring Eastbourne's oldest theatre back to life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 15, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Martin Barry is a proud volunteer for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and he will be running FREE tours of Hastings Cemetery as part of the Commission’s ‘War Graves Week’ in May. He'll be focussing on some of the stories of the 260 servicemen and women who fell during the two World Wars who lie in Hastings cemetery. The tours will last approx 90 mins. Martin says he is constantly adding new stories to these tours, so if you have been on a tour previously he can promise that there will be ...
Apr 03, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 7
*Opened in 1890. *A UNESCO World Heritage Site. *A landmark event in the application of science to architecture that went on to profoundly influence mankind in ways not limited to bridge-building. *A globally important triumph of engineering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 27, 2025•15 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Patrick Kealey has been described as "...a masterful performer, his renditions of the different characters... are superb." I've said before that I love meeting interesting people and Patrick Kealey is certainly that. An actor, director, producer and soon to be published author the 71 year old says he can look back on a life that he's lived on his own terms, with few regrets. He's been directing a play at my local theatre here in Hastings and shortly after that he'll be back on stage with his one...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 6
Royal Crescent in Bath is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, it was built between 1767 and 1774 and is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom. In this episode we find out a little about its history and about some of the most notable people to have lived there over the years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 20, 2025•18 min•Season 1Ep. 4
It's election night 1945 and the working class is about to elect a new Labour government and herald a seismic change in British society that will alter the old order for good. Meanwhile in the bowels of a large country house, beautiful privileged Julie, daughter of an aristocrat, is playing a dangerous seductive game with John, his lordship's chauffeur. So begins Patrick Marber's brilliant update and adaptation of August Strindberg's 19th century classic Miss Julie. What follows is a night of br...
Jan 11, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Mary Slessor was one of the first women to be commemorated in the Hall of Scottish Heroes half way up the Wallace Monument near Stirling. So who was she? What had she done to earn her place among such exalted company? Her story is a fascinating one; from Dundonian Mill Girl to missionary in remotest Africa and then becoming the first female magistrate in the British Empire. Mary Slessor certainly earned her place among the greats of Scotland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Nov 27, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Richard Fryer doesn't object to being described as an adventurer in the true tradition of adventuring. This interview was recorded a few years ago just after the publication of his book Lost Odyssey. He discusses his passion for boats, the high seas and for the West Indies. He explains how he came to love boats and the sea and recalls how he survived 36 hours in a tropical storm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. He also recalls the day he made Odyssey his own and the trials and tribulations o...
Nov 16, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 6
A short history of The Wallace Monument in Stirling and the man who inspired Braveheart. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 07, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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Oct 29, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 1
I count Mark Jardine as a friend, and one of long standing. His has been a life committed to the service of others whether in his profressional life as a funeral director or in his private life where, among many things he has been a bereavement counsellor and is founder of The People's Project. Mark's legacy though, will be in the creation of the Roucan Loch crematorium and woodland burial site https://www.roucanloch.co.uk/ it's a crematorium like no other and as we say in the podcast, it is ver...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 5
As a young reporter watching Councillor Tom McAughtrie in action was fascinating. Over four decades he has been involved in some of the big decisions that have shaped not just the town of Dumfries but of the region as a whole. Over the years, and thanks to the the advent of social media, Tom and I have kept in touch and when I started doing these podcasts I immiediately thought Tom, with his strong views and opinions, would make a great subject and listening back to the result of the couple of h...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 4
The story of Alexander Murray Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 10, 2024•11 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Articulate, immaculately dressed, ambitious and with a laser like focus on where he wants to be! Daniel Robinson is a Hastings lad, a former Filsham Valley pupil he had spent his time since leaving education building his career, treading a well worn path. But last year he decided to change direction and gave up his job and took off for four months to travel in Latin America. Now he’s home he’s got a business to build and a social media following that’s growing by the day. https://www.thetiesuppl...
Oct 08, 2024•34 min•Season 1Ep. 3
'Someone else can tell you your fat but all it does is make you a bit depressed,' says Rob Cooke who this year found the motivation to shed five stones and plans to keep on slimming down. Rob has overhauled his lifestyle and the way he eats and he quite literally got on his bike to feel fitter and healthier while at the same time raising money for a cause close to his heart, prostate cancer, which claimed his father's life just over two years ago. Rob's self notivation is inspiring and makes a g...
Jul 25, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Ross Drury has never backed away from a challenge and his new challenge, along with business partner Dan Hutton, is to turn the Stade Hall in to the coolest village hall of all time, to create what he describes as a significant cultural building in the centre of town, hosting everything from pilates to opera and theatre via craft fairs and anything else local people choose to use it for - it's a blank canvass he says. On leaving university all Ross wanted to do was pursue a career in theatre but...
Jul 18, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
In 2018 structural problems spelled the end for St Leonards Parish Church which now stands abandoned on the St Leonards seafront. In this episode we take a look at its history. To see phtotgraphs of the interior of the church visit https://www.hastingsinfocus.co.uk/2021/10/26/the-sad-history-of-st-leonards-parish-church/ Or to find out more about the Science on Sea project follow this link https://www.hastingsinfocus.co.uk/2020/08/11/science-on-sea/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Jul 18, 2024•7 min
Just three years ago there were no Greens on Hastings Borough Council, now there are 12, they've become the biggest group and have taken on the task of running a minority administration. Julia Hilton was the first Green councillor on HBC, elected in Old Hastings in a landslide in 2021, she's also a County Councillor and now she is leader of the borough council. We spoke to her about what local people can expect from a Green run local authority. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Jun 02, 2024•33 min
Did Aleister Crowley really curse Hastings? If you live here is it really impossible to move away and stay away? The story of Crowley and is curse is a fscinating one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 20, 2024•10 min
Last time we spoke to Lotti Conway we asked: "How would you cope if all your memories were erased overnight?" Lotti had a massive seizure in April 2020 that left her in hospital, scared and alone as she couldn't remember where she was or why she was there. Doctors diagnosed Autoimmune encephalitis and when we met her journey along the road to recovery had begun, with no one quite sure where the destination was going to be.Eighteen months later we've been back to talk to Lotti and mum Kate to fin...
Jul 11, 2023•44 min
The Stables Theatre celebrated its 60th anniversary back in 2019. The history of the theatre and how it came in to existence in the first place is a fascinating one. Here, Stuart Baillie looks at those early years and some of the ‘big characters’ who helped make it all happen in the first place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 03, 2023•9 min
