Kerry Ellis and her new album Anthems
Star of the West End and Broadway, Kerry Ellis, releases her first full album, Anthems, on the 13th September. Last year she spoke to Radio Teesdale about her one woman show. Peter Dixon catches up with Kerry again to talk about her appearance in Oliver! and the new album.
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Australian folk singer Chloe Hall
Australian folk singer Chloe Hall is touring the UK until December 2010. She was recently voted Australia’s top live act. A few days after landing in the UK she spoke to Peter Dixon.
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Steve North - Dave Channel - Top Edinburgh Fringe Joke 2010
TV channel Dave, the home of witty banter, has announced the winner of the third annual Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe.
In its quest to find the outstanding one-liners, and the most disastrous put-downs the judges sat through an average of 60 different comedy performances and sifted through more than 3,600 minutes of material. This meant they each had a potential pool of around 7,200 different jokes to choose from.
With nearly 40% of the overall votes, comedian Tim Vine, takes the top spot and walks away with the hand-crafted Dave trophy and a cash prize for his witty one-liner: ‘I’ve just been on a once in a lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what. Never again’.
Peter Dixon spoke to Steve North of Dave to find out more.
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Friends of The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
The charitable trust, the Friends of the Bowes Museum are celebrating their 60th anniversary this year. Katey Wallace spoke to Jane Whittaker, Principal Keeper of the Bowes Museum, about the help provided by the Friends. She also talked to the Friends’ Chairman, Heather Scott, about how to get involved as a Friend and also chatted to volunteers, Dorothy and Stanley Barker about the tours they, and their team of guides, run daily around the Museum.
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Greville Coe from Isotrak
John Atkinson speaks to Sales & Marketing Director of Isotrak. They discus the issue of trying to reduce fuel costs.
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Operation Greenfield
Andrew Harrison spoke to the director, Alex Scott and Dominic Conway a member of the cast of the show Operation Greenfield. This show was Andrew’s favourite show of this years Edinburgh Fringe.
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Farmboy at Darlington Arts Centre
Andrew Harrison caught up with the two cast members of the play “Farmboy” based on the Michael Morpurgo book while he was reporting on the Edinburgh Festival. The show will be at the Darlington Arts Centre on Wednesday 27/10/10 at 6pm. Andrew spoke to them immediately after one of their shows at the Assembly rooms.
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Mark Wingett says it's Good to Firm in South Shields
Mark Wingett, who played Jim Carver in The Bill for 21 years and Dave in the classic Mod film Quadrophenia, will make a return to The Customs House to direct the Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood play Good to Firm in September. Mark, who has also appeared in Eastenders and is a core cast member for the popular daytime drama Missing, previously worked with Waugh and Wood when he took on the role of Leon in Maggie’s End when it was performed at The Shaw Theatre, London in 2009. The set of which was designed by Teesdale’s own Simon Pell.
Following that he made his North East debut at the South Shields venue when he played the role of Martin, a multi millionaire funder of a religious school, in the workshop reading of the God Only Knows in 2009 which was also written by the popular North East playwrights.
Good To Firm runs from Wednesday September 8 – Saturday September 11. Tickets cost £14, £12conc and are available by calling the Box Office on 0191 454 1234.
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Ben Fogle
TV presenter and adventurer Ben Fogle spoke to Radio Teesdale’s Katey Wallace about how clueless British kids are when it comes to nature. He also spoke about his amazing adventures so far including rowing across the Atlantic Ocean with Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell and his 500 mile footrace from the Antarctic to the South Pole. He truly is a remarkable and inspirational man.
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Simon Donald at Edinburgh Festival 2010
Simon Donald (him off Viz!) is a co-founder and was co-editor of the British comic magazine Viz until 2003.
He set up the magazine in 1979 with his brother Chris in a bedroom in the family home in Newcastle. His most famous creation for the magazine is probably Sid the Sexist.
After leaving Viz he wrote and presented on TV, then managed a NorthEast based indie band before moving into full-time stand-up comedy in November 2008. In August 2010 Simon is at the Edinburgh Festival. Peter Dixon spoke to him just after he stepped off stage during the first week of his run.
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