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The Strettons Podcast

The Strettons Podcast

Di: Sian Lovegrove Pete Johnson
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This podcast features the lives of the people who live in Church Stretton and villages in the Shropshire Hills.



It's a tourist area and we welcome visitors from all over the world to enjoy the Shropshire Hills National Landscape. You'll find our guests not only on top of the Long Mynd, but nursing a craft beer in a snug country pub or having coffee and cake in one of the tea rooms in town. Countless fell-runners, mountain-bikers, walkers, hikers, campers and dog-walkers flock to the Church Stretton area every year.



Agriculture is an important part of the economy here and we talk to farmers and others born and raised in the area, not just about farming but what it was like to grow up here. We collect stories of the people who made this area what it is today, the characters who inhabited the village pubs, stories of terrible winters and childhood activities in the fields and streams around the Long Mynd. This is an important archive project for this tiny corner of South Shropshire.



We are the first village podcast in the world and would like to hear from listeners across the world who enjoy hearing voices from The Strettons. We are village people and we want to give a voice to the villages of the Shropshire Hills.



We're independent of any organisation and publish episodes every Tuesday.



We have a website http://thestrettonspod.com/.


Producers

Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson
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  • Nigel Morris of Picklescott
    Jun 2 2026

    This week we’ve been back up the hill to Picklescott where we’ve caught up with Nigel Morris, a third generation farmer at Wilrack Farm. Nigel tells us what it was like to grow up in a small village on top of a hill and what passed for entertainment for him and his friends. We talk about the challenge of early starts and the importance of resilience in order to overcome the challenges of low milk prices and what the future of dairy farming might look like.

    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    26 min
  • Long Mynd Zebras
    May 26 2026

    We have a bit of a laugh with the kids who will eventually become the custodians of this land we love. We’re back at the food bank in the Parish Centre to learn how the situation has changed over the last year. Then it’s the Gardening Club Show in the Silvester Horne Institute where we speak to exhibitors and visitors and we finish off this week, where we will all end up - in a cemetery but it’s a popular green burial remembrance park near Rushbury.


    Timings

    Next gen farmers 02:03

    Food bank 09:37

    Gardening Club show 15:14

    Green burials 22:14

    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    30 min
  • Stuart Wright of Church Stretton
    May 19 2026

    Stuart Wright is known to everyone in town as the owner of Wrights Estate Agency. He talks to Sian about how the family ended up in Church Stretton, the shops and people who were around then and about the time he went on a school trip to the Welsh coast which ended in disaster.

    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    20 min
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