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Summerseat Players with Stephen Gill – Episode 43

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It’s 2016! We don’t have flying cars yet, but we have hoverboards that are being banned left right and centre in America, including a raid on at a recent electronics show CES.

I don’t think they’ll be “taking off” in Ramsbottom anytime soon though.

This week I interviewed Stephen Gill of Summerseat players and I looked at how Summerseat Players actually came to be in Ramsbottom.

In 1990 what was then the “Buskers Showbar and Snooker Hall” (formerly “The Royal Cinema”) was purchased by the Summerseat Players. It was renamed to what is now, the Theatre Royal. It then underwent lots of changes to create the theatre and in September 1991 it opened to the public with their production of “Stepping Out”.

Interestingly, Stephen mentioned that they had also looked at the old Co-Op Building at the time, but access was considered too difficult and costly to correct. I spoke to Stephen Marley about the old Co-Op building in episode 41.

I also found out how many people it takes to actually put on a production.

 

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Ramsbottom Literary and Arts Festival – Episode 36

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This week I went down to the Hare and Hounds where they were hosting, for the second time an Open Mic night as a precursor to the Literary and Arts Festival that is due to take place in Ramsbottom on the 21st of November.

It was a great night, I met a lot of people I hadn’t met before and listened to a lot of great poetry. Many people think that it’s stuffy to listen to poems and get in touch with feelings, to those I say come down to the Literary and Arts festival and relax, you’ll enjoy it, I promise.

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Ramsbottom Pie Festival, Oct 19th 2014

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Update: Pie Festival is today!!

It starts at 10am outside St Paul’s Church and also involving the local shops and businesses.

Enjoy it, and we hope to see you there, I’d get there early to avoid being dissapointed, I plan on eating many pies.

It’s Pie Festival time again at St Paul’s Church on Bridge Street.

Come along, buy some pies, you’re sure to see some interesting flavours, as well as old faithful choices. Many local butchers and bakers will be supplying pies as well as a giant pie in the “guess the pie weight” competition.

The Ramsbottom Pie Festival is going to be flan-tastic, ok, that’s not really a pie pun, most of my puns are a bit CRUSTY, alright alright, I’ll put a LID on it. Either way, it should be really ex-PIE-TIN (exciting, get it?).

What’s your favourite pie?